Re: Sites Have Motivation to Reward Poor Players. Period.
Two bad beats does not a rigged online site make. I want to see a bunch of people submit hand histories from separate sites. So we get a history of 2000 hands from various people on various sites. These should be consecutive of course as oppose to picking various sets of hands each where a person may have a short-term loss or a pair of Aces appeared. This way people could examine the hand histories and check if the cards dealt occur in a reasonable amount of time for the various people playing.
Keep in mind the better you get at poker the more times you will get a bad beat. See as you get better you will have gone all in with the better hand more often and more chances to experience a bad beat. So your bad beats may be an indication that your getting better at poker, BE HAPPY. (LOL)
There are various ways for a person to be cheated. It’s not necessary that the online site is doing anything to cheat you. Playing online may leave you vulnerable to other players cheating. Some ways for this to occur are:
Collusion: Two or more players working together as a team.
They could use instant messaging to tell what hand they each have. So if they see a player going after a flush they would have better idea of the actual outs available to the player and can determine if it would be good for them to bet or not. So the player wonders why he keeps losing
Or they bet, raise, re-raise, and re-re-raise so often enough to drive others away, And before the river everyone of the team will fold to one of its members. They steal the blinds and all other bets made the people at the table. Assuming they steal enough to cover the rake.
Software:
Its has been suggested that you have a good firewall when playing online poker. Apparently software exists to back track the IP address of the other players at the table, and will essentially peek at the other player’s cards. But as long as you have a good firewall you don’t have to worry.
I suppose there are going to be other ways for a person to be cheated by other players it would be interested to hear about such ways.
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