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Originally posted by Buff
Eve, I find online poker has much more action than regular poker -- the hands are ridiculous. It's pretty rare to see 4 of a kind offline, but online in tournaments, you see them like every 3 or 4 hands. Also, I find that it's rarely just one good hand at a time. If I have pocket pairs, usually one or 2 other people do also, online.
It's my belief the action has been artificially cranked up online. Whatever algorithms they use have been tweaked to produce exactly the kind of result you got mauled by.
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Buff, I go back and forth on this. I think it seems like things are skewed only because you see SO many more hands than you ever will playing live. I've been playing for a year and I've had quads and straight flushes a few times in live games and about the some online. I wasn't really complaining about online poker, in fact playing on Party Poker is definitely profitable for me. I get pissed off and complain about the idiot players who call with terrible cards and get lucky, for instance, I had pocket aces and some moron called me with K5 off and his 5 made a flush!! The flip side is that those bad players have made me plenty of money!