Pokerstars Is Rigged

[primetime32]

So you lost a ton of money on some bad beats at pokerstars and instead of learning how to play the game you post up this drivel. Talk about transparent.

[FlFishOn]

Here's a site I trust. I sampled a small batch of hands and they checked out very close to expectation.

[Sciolist]

To quote my bad beat response template:

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There are three sets of people who would undoubtably recognise that something was amiss if there were any flaws in the shuffle. The first set is the programmers, the second senior management, and the third the poker specialists (who have access to as many hand histories as they want). All any of these people would have to do is ask for a 100% pay rise with the threat that they will release compelling evidence about the dishonesty. We make our money purely from rake and tournament entry fees. We would immediately lose a lot, if not all of our players as a result of this. The fact that this is not all over the forums, and the fact that I am (sadly) not sitting on a tropical island as I type this mail is a very strong signal that nothing is amiss

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[FlFishOn]

Sorry, but I must suggest you are overly optomistic. I could easily envision a situation where cheats could enter into the software and corporate life simply goes on.

At Party, for instance, it's possible that only one person has ever coded the card distribution section at the site's begining. That person is a principal. Once it's compiled no one out of the loop can inspect his work.

[Sciolist]

So what if I request the last ten million hands played on the site and run them through Poker Tracker? What if a player with a million hands asks for his hand history? We'll send them to him. How could we do that if we didn't have complete confidence in the shuffle? We could simply say "nope, we're not sending you the hands", like other sites do.

[FlFishOn]

"So what if I request the last ten million hands played on the site and run them through Poker Tracker?"

This will not be a test of all possible cheating schemes. It's quite difficult to do rigorously. Even when well done, assuming the site is dishonest, you will have little more than stong tangental indictment, not proof.

Actual proof lies in the source code.

[Eder]

I voted yes...but of course I enjoy these threads

[Ro-me-ro]

www.billrini.com/index.php/2005/09/25/why-online-poker-is-not-rigged/

"Enjoy!"

[Guthrie]

I always thought that Lee Jones was a shifty-looking character. Who wants to charter a plane, fly down to Costa Rica, and get our money back? Or at least get really drunk.

[smb394]

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