A Discussion regarding Online Poker is Rigged (long)

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I think it would be incredibly easy for them to rig it, and very easy for it to be pretty undetectible. Screw the 75% randomness-- they could make it 99% and it would still have a significant impact due to sheer volume.

you ignore (or perhaps discount) the more direct reasons to rig it, either to steer money towards shills for the site or to generate more rake. I think a very small change to the "random" number generator could easily pad their pockets.

the sample size required to show an unfair distribution would be nuts. even to show that there is a legitimate distribution of 30^5 board card possiblities that makes-- that's a lot of friggin hands! i hope these auditing companies have some beefy computers to crunch those numbers.

HOWEVER, I think that the matter is pretty academic. There's a decent chance IMO it's rigged a little, or a slim chance that it's rigged a lot.

Either way, playing profitable poker seems to work in general, except for the Chicken Littles who are winning B&M players who always lose their KK to AA when playing online, and these are the only folks who generally seem concerned with it's rigged-ness.

So I ask you, why do you care if it's rigged or not?