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Originally Posted by Humpy Leftnut
There's just no motive. Their motive is to keep you clicking, they only make money by the rake. There's just nothing in it for them to rig games.
As for collusion, play on Poker Stars. They actively police collusion, and I actually received a CREDIT out of the blue from them. They said I was involved in a SNG with some colluders, that their accounts were forfeitted, and it's their policy to distribute the money in the forfeitted accounts to the affected players equally. I got like $40 something!
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Well, they do have a motive...
1) If bad players lost all their money in two hands they wouldn't play anymore - but if bad players wins with insane hands they'll keep on playing
2) If you show the site you're likely to make payouts whenever you win "big" they have a interest in letting the "loyal" players win your money so they stay in game and keeps on getting raked
I've seen people calling $100 on the flop with nothing.. no pairs, no draws.. no nothing.. and then hitting the runner runner hand... these guys are either employees playing or people who's got knowlegde about how these scripts works and favours the bad players
I don't mind all the bad beats - those are probably real enough - but these mysterious players who makes these psychic calls makes me think..
And on top of this you have to think about the amount of people with a gambling problem playing online - for them the flop is just like another pull in the slot machines handle.. if they have a chance of winning something they'll make the call.. pot odds or not