I played a little bit with party poker since the switch, and I found that there was a really high number of "lucky river cards" both for and against, and that an all in before the flop almost always came out good for whoever was the dog. The bigger a dog you were, the more likely you would actually win.
I am not saying they are stacking the deck... but damn, it just turned into a dog fest.
I played a little bit with party poker since the switch, and I found that there was a really high number of "lucky river cards" both for and against, and that an all in before the flop almost always came out good for whoever was the dog. The bigger a dog you were, the more likely you would actually win.
I am not saying they are stacking the deck... but damn, it just turned into a dog fest.
Alex
Party Poker has always been rigged for big hands. If you play there a lot and switch to a different place, it can really fuck you up. You almost get used to the style and it's almost a different game altogether. There is a website somewhere that tested like 500,000 hands at each place and found party had a ridiculous amount of big hands over the others.
There was a thing on the news the other night with some ex-casino scammer and he says that internet poker is full of cheaters & bots, and he personally knows a lot of them. He says that any poker company that says they have stopped bots is basically full of shit.
One of the top and easiest scams is that they all work together and gang up on one game and tell each other their cards.
aico, there are plenty of plugins that look at the incoming stream of cars and actions, and can predict the actions that a given player will make based on the flow. It can determine which players are fish and which ones are good players, which over time allows the software to guide you into playing hands against weaker players while avoiding stronger players. You can run it on the same PC or even cut and paste the hands to a difference machine and have it report.
Online poker in theory isn't the worst thing in the world, but when the dealing and hand results are a little off (someone has a finger on the scale) it blos the odds out the window and makes good plays into bad and bad plays into good.
The new PP starting chip counts for S&G and tournaments also means that people are way more likely to bet wild, and that combined with really poor hands hitting and winning means that players who would normally be fish are suddenly whales, feeling all good about themselves and playing a ton.
players who use to be good are suddenly sucking, and piling tons of money into "getting it back"... PP has found a way to motivate both ends of the scale.
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