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10-27-2005, 05:11 AM
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Appropriatly enough....
I was browsing through the "older archives" and came accross the very first post in the Internet Forum when it was created in January of 2000.
The Zoo's First "Online Poker Is Rigged" Thread [ QUOTE ] # Internet Poker Cheating Posted by: George M. Rice, Jr. (Yorick@mindspring.com) Posted on: Saturday, 29 January 2000, at 6:00 p.m. Oooo, new forum, let me be the first. ;-) I'm concerned that as internet poker becomes more popular, the "casinos" will be tempted to cheat. They could do this by having robot players at a table and fix it so that these robots win more than their share of hands. How's one to know if a player really exists? One or two robot players at a table could make quite a bundle for the casino over time, and cost us players a lot. It's probably not hard to right the software to do it. I do think someone will try something like this eventually. Anywhere where there's money to be made is sure to attract the worst element. And with these casinos off-shore, we would have no redress even if we could prove it, which would be impossible to do if done right. So what does everyone else think about this? [/ QUOTE ] 
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10-27-2005, 05:26 AM
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Re: Appropriately enough....
That was interesting to read...
Amazing how even 5 years ago people were complaining of the same things they are now... Only saw a few familiar names.... Raymer, Lepore... 5 years ago....I had only seen Texas Holdem on the Telly (Late Night Poker) over here in the Uk , but had never played it...
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10-27-2005, 06:01 AM
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Re: Appropriately enough....
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That was interesting to read... Amazing how even 5 years ago people were complaining of the same things they are now... [/ QUOTE ] Well, cus it's still true as it was back then. Duh.
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10-27-2005, 08:21 AM
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Re: Appropriately enough....
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[ QUOTE ] That was interesting to read... Amazing how even 5 years ago people were complaining of the same things they are now... [/ QUOTE ] Well, cus it's still true as it was back then. Duh. [/ QUOTE ] I didn't mean it like that - Just in this day and age...with all this information at out fingertips, it makes me laugh when I hear all the conspiracy theories...I can understand back then, when there was little information on Online Poker, but nowadays...I mean Come On !
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12-05-2005, 12:06 AM
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Re: Appropriatly enough....
And I haven't seen any of that personally in the past five years (wow time flies). But I've heard the bad players make all kinds of claims. And there were a couple of incidents I believe true a few years ago.
One thing that happened was that the card rooms are making so much money that it's in their best interest to keep thing on the up and up. And the WPT helped make that happen. Who knew? And I wasn't complaining, just posting some thoughts. I hope you guys don't blame me for what followed. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] You don't have any old photographs of me in compromising positions, do you? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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12-05-2005, 01:11 AM
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Re: Appropriatly enough....
I bet that these were very legitimate concerns back then though.
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