How crooked is Party Poker? My two cents.

[ansky451]

Yeah remember that guy, uh I think Moneymaker is his name... He put Brenes all in with just 2 outs against his AA. He then won the WSOP, so I guess the world series main event is rigged. You know, because they must be in on the conspiracy with Partypoker.
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ITS POKER.

[ansky451]

Oh and another thing. If there is one thing worse than a bad beat post, its a bad beat "online poker is rigged" post.

[Ryner]

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No, but a player I knocked out of the tourny in the 1st 10 mins took 6th. I thought that was weird.


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There was a player named Mike who finished 6th. There were also a bunch of other Mikes including one who appeared to bust out in the first 10 minutes. I hate to debunk another PP is fixed theory.

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Maybe he was joking?

[taytsdad]

I apologize for the post. Two days and 32 replies later I certainly recognize why it's inappropriate. Obviously I'm new to the site and didn't understand the advanced tone of the threads. At the time thought it was a place to vent and was bitter after what I thought was a questionable play. My post would have been better served to stick to probability and method of play. Thanks to those who took the time to lob a real and helpful answer.

[thegowzer]

This also happened to me. EXACT same situation but they guy didn't have a backdoor flushdraw.

I had rockets. Flop comes A 7 2 rainbow. Guy goes all in with KQ suited with no suit that floppled, turn j river 10.

I was a 98.38% favouite.

U know whats even worse. This happened in a ring game. Lost a 400$ pot there.

[sternroolz]

Nothing is rigged. You just got very unlucky. 95 times out of 100 in that situation, you win. 5 times you lose.

It goes to prove that a complete boob can win a tournament. Tournaments are very short term luck oriented. For some reason there is a complete resistence to that notion on this forum. There seems to be a general belief that a player must be doing something right to win a tournament. Bullcrap. I've seen players CALL many times throughout a tournament with dogs, and buck the odds every time(or nearly every time). I've seen them do this with average size stacks, after which they are now chip leaders.

Bottom line is, people would not play poker if fish did not get lucky every now and then. This guy got lucky. End of story.

[yoadrians]

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[Jason Strasser]

How can you risk your tournament with AA on a A92 flop?

The correct play is to check call until you no longer have the nuts then check fold.

-Jason

[boondockst]

How many chips did he have? And would you have complained if your aces held? I got a $50 Sportsbook bonus and quickly deposited it on UB to have some fun on that site for a minute instead of my usual Party. I dumped it all my 8th hand. I had 99 on a 353 flop and he outdrew me with 85s with a river two-outer. $50 gone but if i'd doubled up you'd never have heard from me. We see all these fishy plays all the time and only remember the times we lose.

[fjcomm02]

It was a joke...