FULLY agree with you!
Iâm getting beat after beat on the RSOP hold em promotion. Iâm going all in preflop and have been called and lost the following
AA v AJ
AA v 88
AQ v AJ
AQ v AT
99 v 77
KK v 82
QQ v AQ
JJ v Q7
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My friend in college set me straight on this many years ago, think Full Tilt days⌠Anyway he is a computer scientist who now has a PHD so I think you better listen. He told me that a true random number generator is impossible to produce with a CPU. That being said it would be just as impossible to rig. He told me it would take a Cray supercomputer the size of a football stadium to attempt to rig the outcome of the game, which at the time was millions of dollars worth of computer hardware and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of electricity per month.
Anyway, not only is the game not rigged, it is impossible to do so with current technology.
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First, when you play always wear a tin-foil hat. That should fix your problem.
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I was going to suggest maybe not going âall-inâ preflop like you were giving away candy at Halloween, but hey, Iâve always been more of a âscienceâ guy.
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I was going to suggest the same thing, but thought perhaps the tin-foil hat was a more persuasive argument.
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Yâknow, the heart button is fine and all that - but there really needs to be a LMAO button. That was worthy.
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Iâm in the same boat. Just under 2.7 million chips. Never spent real money here. Donât play all that often, but when I do, I usually do all right.
Bad beats happen. Sometimes they happen consistently. I was in a big (several hour) tournament on another site once. Had KK seven times and lost six of them.
But if they happen consistently over a long period of time, then they probably arenât bad beats. Maybe theyâre bad plays.
Examples:
Overplaying draws (inside straights, low flushes, drawing to a straight or a flush on the river)?
Aggressively betting wrong-ended straights (such as 6-7-8 on the board and you have 4-5) or low flushes?
Not recognizing your opponent has 2-pair against your high pair, or has a straight or flush against your set.
Slow-playing too much (allowing your opponent a chance to beat you on a draw)
Tells with your bets (such as 1/2 pot when you are bluffing, but full pot when you make a hand)
Also, are you playing position? More aggressive betting when youâre late to act (have the dealer button or are close to it), folding more and less aggressive when youâre early to act (small/big blind or the positions just after it). You play tighter when in early position because you donât know what your opponents are going to do. In later position, you have seen what your opponent is doing and can play accordingly.
Look at your statistics. What percentage of hands do you fold? I fold 78%, which means I donât play very many marginal hands. What percentage of pots do you win without a showdown? For me, itâs 69%, which means that Iâm betting aggressively enough to get people to fold rather than letting them hit a card for a bad beat.
What size bets do you throw out there? If youâre going all-in a lot, you will lose a lot of them. If you are betting 20 into a 500-chip pot, you might as well check. That bet does nothing, and if people are folding to it, it means theyâve got extremely weak hands or they are folding to any bet. Use the half-pot and full-pot bet options, considering the effect on your stack of course.
Are you too passive in general? Are you calling a lot, but not betting or raising? As a challenge, I would invite you to try a few tournaments/rounds without calling anything. Bet, raise, or fold. Betting or raising to get others to fold will reduce the chances of a bad beat (as they will hopefully fold marginal hands and draws), and folding more will keep you from playing hands that have only marginal value.
So try it. Bet, raise, or fold. Never call unless itâs an all-in. If you have a strong hand, bet or raise. If you donât, fold to their bet. That alone should help your game a bit.
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Too logical. 
All kidding aside, every poker book or coach says to fold around 80% of your hands. Play premium hands from anywhere at the table, but most of the hands you play in late position. This means that you donât have to make difficult decisions on later streets. Limping, while thatâs the standard practice on Replay, is weak and passive poker. If you enter a hand first, you should raise or fold. If a hand is too weak to raise, then itâs too weak to play, unless you are set mining with small pairs or you have suited connectors and you are up against players here on Replay that you know are going to limp as well. Also, as a rule, large bets on the turn are usually the nuts. Large bets on the river are the nuts. Keep that in mind and quite often you wonât lose a huge amount of chips. I know this flies in the face of the conspiracy theorists that think itâs all rigged and that it couldnât possibly be bad play costing them chips, but itâs accurate. Donât believe it, try it and see. If these tips donât work, wear a tin-foil hat and hope for the best.
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Stop shoving pre-flop. Problem solved.
If youâve got aces or kings and someone shoves before you, then probably everyone in the world is going to call, but if youâre shoving things like ace/queen and ace/jack and losing, thatâs not unlucky - youâre losing on merit. Losing a shove with pocket queens or pocket jacks isnât unlucky. Common sense alone tells us that youâre probably not going to hit a set, so someone just needs to pair a king or an ace and youâre finished. And yeah, because weâre playing with worthless play-chips, a donkey with pure trash like queen/seven is going to call.
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AA vs AJâ12.32%
AA vs 88â18.67%
AQ vs AJâ26.54%
AQ vs ATâ26.81%
99 vs 77â18.84%
KK vs 82â16.78%
QQ vs AQâ33.65%
JJ vs Q7â31.44%
These are the percentages that the âweakerâ hand will win in an all-in showdown, assuming the unmatched hands are suited. None of these âbad beatsâ are rare at all. Even the worst possible matchupâAA vs 72 off, same suits as the AA, comes in at 10.78%.
https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tools/odds-calculator/texas-holdem
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Youâve gotten some great advice here as Iâve been reading the thread. Youâre losing because your play has become predictable in this tournament. Heed the advice. Play smarter!!
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I can put it a good context. â businesses are in business to make make money, how they accomplish that is their own business â if something is nefarious about the way businesses make money, I donât want to know, I want to get paid.
Play chips or money , doesnât matter.
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Itâs not personal, itâs just business 
Grab the cannolis, leave the gun 
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First of all, nothing âis simpleâ when computer code is involved. You sound like a fool speaking so confidently about the process like you know because the number of chips in your account says you know!
Itâs not my job to convince anyone of anything. Take the information youâve read here and apply it to your experience. Good⌠luck?
Thatâs cool man, and generally I agree, but what happens when a business runs a great game into the ground? Unfortunately, leaving their business to them in the context of poker means manipulating hands making poker, not poker.
Wow, I just noticed itâs gone. It was very funny, thank you and sorry the music is gone.
I donât judge. I have my opinions and I share them here but in business since 2005 means something is working for their business model.
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I do not think Replay are cheating , I mean why should they its a completely free site to join play learn whatever the poker its FREE fair play you can purchase chips but there is absolutely nothin forcing any one to do so so again why cheat on a free site? lol
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Hey no body i believe is accusing any one of cheating or making excuses, and yes your conspiracy theorists will love it granted, but numbers sorry but most know im absolutely lost when it comes to numbers so your âoddsâ has lost me sorry and its because of that fact and the fact im learning i asked the original question was this normal? I won my 1st ticket in 23 attempts yesterday and I posted saying so but hey what do i know lol tc all stay safe have fun
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