I check in on this post every now and then and I just have to say this. I went in to this game knowing darn well that every online poker site is rigged. All the hands are canned. All the winners are prechosen. What I can’t get over is how these moderators and the owners stick to their story. Cocodrie, you nailed it. These guys only want to sell chips and keep the scam going. You buy the chips and they take them away. They create a tense situation only to nail you on the river. I come to this thread for a good laugh at the moderators and the oh-so-helpful happiness and marcipan. You guys crack me up. I have to hand it to you, marcipan and happiness. You are faithful to the very end. By the way, I play at another site. It is not so blatantly rigged. And yes, I bought chips. Fairness is as fairness does.
Good luck with your story. Hope you “sell” a lot of “free” chips with it. As for me, I spend my money elsewhere. Where the rigging is not so blatant.
BTW. I fully expect to be punished for this comment. What more can you do to me? Kick me out of Losing hands. You fold me out of the winning hands so, what more can you do to prove your control over us peons on this site?
Knowing them, they probably think they can. And yes, my name is Emmylou and I am a girl. I am an engineering student at the University of Houston, Clear Lake Campus. I will be a Junior in August, 2014. I just recently completed a one year internship at NASA. Not bragging here, just stating my credentials.
Funny thing is, in a quantitative analysis class we gathered statistics on live poker as compared to online poker. Contrary to popular belief a lot of luck is involved; as well as intuition. Doyle Brunson, the father of Texas Hold 'em plays on intuition. To shorten a lengthy subject, online poker is all rigged. We actually played on this site as a class assignment. Then we gathered up statistics as the end of the semester on winning and losing hands and the probabilities of making straights and flushes on turns and river cards. The results were that a few players always won against such astronomical improbabilities on this site. I think this site is rigged by your IPA. How do I know? Went to a Starbucks and played on their WiFi and won. Made for a nice change.
Just like Cocodrie, I hope they back off of you and pick on another subject for a while.
And, Cocodrie, I love what you said about loving your wife. Why are all the good guys already taken?
They probably think they can. And yes, my name is Emmylou and I am a girl. I am an engineering student at the University of Houston, Clear Lake Campus. I just recently completed a one year internship at NASA. Not bragging here, just stating my credentials.
Funny thing is; in a theory and probabilities class we gathered statistics on live poker as compared to online poker. Contrary to popular belief a lot of luck is involved; as well as intuition. Doyle Brunson, the father of Texas Hold 'em plays on intuition. To shorten a lengthy subject, online poker is all rigged. We actually played on this site, among others, as a class assignment. Then we gathered up statistics on winning and losing hands and the probabilities of making straights and flushes on turns and river cards. The odds against a few chosen people winning against all probabilities on this site were astronomical. Yet it happened night after night.
. This site is rigged by your IPA. How do I know? Went to a Starbucks and played on their WiFi and won. Made for a nice change.
Just like Cocodrie, I hope they back off of you and pick on another subject for a while.
And, Cocodrie, I love what you said about loving your wife. Why are all the good guys already taken?
They probably think they can. And yes, my name is Emmylou and I am a girl. I am an engineering student at the University of Houston, Clear Lake Campus. I will begin my junior year in August, 2014. I just recently completed a one year internship at NASA. Not bragging here, just stating my credentials.
Funny thing is; in a theory and probabilities class we gathered statistics on live poker as compared to online poker. Contrary to popular belief a lot of luck is involved; as well as intuition. Doyle Brunson, the father of Texas Hold 'em plays on intuition. To shorten a lengthy subject, online poker is all rigged. We actually played on this site, among others, as a class assignment. Then we gathered up statistics on winning and losing hands, and the probabilities of making straights and flushes on turns and river cards. The odds against the few people who won against all reasonable probabilities on this site were astronomical.
Yet it happened, night after night. This site is rigged by your IPA. How do I know? Went to a Starbucks and played on their WiFi and won. Made for a nice change.
Just like Cocodrie, I hope they let off on you and pick on another subject for a while.
And, Cocodrie, I love what you said about loving your wife. Why are all the good guys already taken?
It is allowed to play with more persons from the same household. You and cocodrie know enough of computers as you say both. The program runs in flash. Not sure what it does with your connection and speed when more players are logged in from the same household. You all play play wireless? You can check the speed and connection when you are online with more persons. Not all problems are on the side of ReplayPoker, your own software, speed and connection is very important and also the number of programs which are running.
Been checking in on this conversation regularly lately and it has been interesting to say the least. Some very good reasons to believe that the site is rigged.
The most compelling of the arguments have disappeared from the conversation. The site claims that they do not remove or alter comments, which makes one wonder about their honesty and adds to the to the argument that it is a rigged site. I feel that by just following this conversation I have been marked. Just played a tournament and every week not connected hand I got hit on the flop and would have won the hand, good hands that were played and hit lost to bigger hands on the river. Last night I got combinations of 7,4 7,2 and 7,3 for 8 hands in a row and continued to get hands with no cards bigger than a 9 until my stack was finally all in on the big blind. I am not a math whiz but the odds seem astronomical to me. Also have lost a tournament without even being allowed to play a single hand, and have had winning hands and placed big bets but the connection was conveniently lost, resulting in me losing the hand and my chips.
I am wondering if following this blog has affected others in the same way; did the site seemed fair until you stumbled upon this conversation?
I was emailed a post were I was told that “Rob” admitted that a tournament or tournaments had designated wining players, or seats, before the start of play. Is anyone able to corroborate that? Bet I don’t get a good hand for a year now!
I have not had a good winning hand since wife bought me these chips. And, every hand I folded were good folds. Except for the ones that were folded for me by the system. Before that I was winning by playing smart poker. It seemed like decent fun for a while.
I don’t expect to win every hand. I do however, expect fairness. The things I see on this site are over the top. As far as rigging a game, it is easy. Every hand is canned. Winning seats are predetermined by the system. And yes, it is easy to assign winning hands on a table to a designated player. It can be done beforehand. Then, when the player logs in he/she is tagged to win at a particular table. Or, more than likely, the games are moderated so they can view their rigging live.
It is just as easy to tag a player to lose at any table. That is the reason online gambling is prohibited in the US of A.
A well known online poker site was convicted of doing just that very thing. The moderators were convicted and the site was fined heavily. Who is to say that site is not doing the very same thing, even now? The foxes are watching the hen house.
And yes, CaptBarry, I will be punished. I have already felt their wrath.
Maybe they will move on after a while. But, I really doubt it I have been tagged for life.
If you are a good sport I will see you in the ring games. Good Luck!
I went ranked from 255K to 2.8K in 4 months and haven’t seen a card since I hit that ranking and I admit I was learning the whole time from starting as a twice a year home poker novice. Then the river cards stopped. Then the flops were 180 degrees opposite of my openers. Then the all in beatings started with KK, AA (odds are 121-1 of AA openers, even though for one month my odds were closer to 500-1) QQ, big slick etc… by a river cards of player going all in with 24 off hitting the straight on the river. Then I started noticing my card values were dropping quickly. 74 off three times in a row. Any 5 year old can tell you the odds of getting 23 off openers are the same as getting AK off openers. Then why is it I can 23, 42, 53, 75, 94 off (lower 2/3rds od the deck) more than 80% of the time over and over. But never AK, AQ, QJ (upper 1/3 of the deck) 20% of the time. Mathematically, it just does not work. Also, more often than not, if I stick it out to the turn and or river and miss, I get the very same card or cards I needed for my openers half the time and on the flop almost every time. Alas, When I started saying something about it, it got even worse. I can go a whole tourney and not win a hand or if I’m lucky 1 or 2, but only with nothing on the line like the first ten hands. So for now I suppose I’ll just lead the league in folded openers and flops and being one of the have nots in the game. Skill comes from losing, not being cheated.
I now have to say I completely agree. I apologize for any statements I made earlier because as I have read your posts and to a look at the cards I receive I start to see these exact similarities. To sit there and watch 74, etc. flop to me 3 times in a row is absolutely painful. Something is most definitely wrong
This is so funny. Never knew so many players here saw the anomalies in the odds at this site. I just assumed that players here were not very savvy about poker. Reason for that: When I first joined I could not be beaten. It was hilarious. I thought that all the savvy players went to other sites and the sad players came here. Then, it changed. The change was drastic. It came on immediately. The newbies were assigned the winning seats.
By the way, after my previous post, they LET me win a tourney. Not a whole lot of chips. Thank you, RP. It made my day, really!
I still think that a lot of players here are not very good poker players. They play for entertainment and fun. And, that is OK. Most players are really nice and I have conversed with a lotta people from around the world. Some are funny and some are not so funny. The cussing and the threats are not too cool. I think the reason for the cussing and threats is that those people have figured this system out and they can’t deal with it. Nobody likes to made a fool.
Hmmm, gonna change my major from ME to Psychology. Maybe!
There are millions of canned hands that the site draws from. I state that with tongue in cheek. Millions of hands cost millions to program. Maybe if we all buy chips they can upgrade their canned hands database and remove the losing tag from my ID. Really doubt it though.
Shame on RP for abusing the human condition. There I go again, Psych 101.
See all you good sports on the tables. I am tagged a loser so it will be easy to get my (RP’s) chips from me.
Thanks mebollix for the apology for your comments and also thank you for your same comments so I can try to make myself a better player.
And by the way, I’ve noticed no matter how good my cards or how well I’ve played a losing hand, not that I win that many anyway, there are a lot of players on this site I have never won a hand against. And that’s quite a few because I’ve had to stick with those players until a ‘reorganization’ of tables. Hhmmm!
Been following the “fair or unfair” thread on your site. Not sure I believe sites stance on the subject.
Just played in a tournament, was at 2 tables and watched a seat at the first table win 70% (+or-). As has been mentioned in the blog the player was a new, low stakes player. I was allowed to get 1 winning hand, and bluffed against the “programmed winner” a few times, but was smart enough to realize that to continue observing I should not bet when the “programmed winner” called or raised before the flop.
Your claim that the site is fair because it has been audited by an “independent auditor” raises 2 questions: 1. Did you pay them? 2. Was it a “random” audit or a “scheduled” one? If the answer to the first questions is yes, or the second question is that it was “scheduled” then your claims are a mute point. I would love to see a site that charges a fee to play and not to buy chips. A site that did that would have many appealing qualities for players looking for a Hold’em site with no fixed deals or all in idiots.
Online gaming is illegal in most states for a reason, sites rig the deal. Looking for a fair game with players that have to earn their ranking (and not have it taken away for going on vacation).
actually its not anymore there are a number of sites that openly disclose they are using ai players and that the algorithms are not of the random nature in their user agreements which of course noone reads and this makes it legal because you agree to it before you play. Bottom line is these sites know exactly what they are doing and that is leveling thew field to keep the lower level players interested and buying. All these huge hands are invigorating even when your not winning money . I wont mention names but I know of 2 sites that use paid ringers also ontop of ai bots. Ive been on tables where Im the only actual human. And if you ask them they will deny it even though they dont have to.
You cant bluff in free poker games its plain not an effective strategy as there is nothing to lose and free poker leads to a numb state of mind where calling is the norm. Why not nothing to lose . Free poker goes against the theory of poker which is to win money. The idea that a poker site is created to one learn poker and then also be a relaxed friendly environment is a contradiction in itself. You could watch hand dealt games with the loosest players on earth and not see the amount of straights flushes boats you see in online play. I dont know about this site yet as I just got here but from my first two games I see it already. Every hand I was part of had the setup in it. Im savvy enough to see it so I folded they hit and everyone congratulates them. Its the same everywhere. But lets forget the generator for a second. Your already not going to have a the game be real when money is removed all your low level tricks are worthless because Ive seen it everywhere there is a mindset that takes over on a free site. The players acclimate themselves to the game play style of the regulars and how they play no matter how flawed it may be. I played on the poker stars site and tried to comment on these things and was met with such resistance it was unbelievable. I pl;ayed in games that were like playing in a mausoleum 6 players ilmping into every hand min raise min raise fold. They get good cards riase higher but no aggression whatsoever . I began using basic stt position shoves common practice if your getting low or even if not in later rounds o stt play. They were furious calling me all sorts of names etc because IO had rocked the boat disturbed the comfy lake. I told them if they didnt like it there is a game called no limit hold em available for them. Before I knew it they were teaming up on me. My point is this. If you want to play good poker you will have to bite the bullet and fork some cash out. The important thing is to not drink the kool aid . DDont get drawn into the mind numbingly dull comfort of free poker . Play your hands the way you should be because the theory is the same no matter where it is. If you would play the hand the same way having seen your opponents hand the outcome is irrelevant. Youve done all you can do. Its difficult to do frustrating losing to drawing machines but here is the positive you learn to take it lightly and later when you are in a big game and it happens you will b mentally prepared. Look I have no idea who took and thought free friendly poker could ever lead to good poker play as it is directly in conflict wit the basic nature and object of the game.
I totally believe the site is fair. It’s not the site, per say, it’s being free. A lot of people. with nothing to lose will play crap hands that they would not play if they had to put their money where their mouth is.Given that,even a rookie can pick up a hand they shouldn’t.It’s happened to me to many times to count.But if you play right you will eventually pull away from the pack.
Paul Gould. You are living in a world of dementia or as I believe are smart and putting good players in situations to lose chips and have to buy them to be competitive.
For those that believe the site is fair or that they do not predetermine that players win or lose, here (at the minimum) is proof that the game is unfair. Replay hand
93941541 and notice the player in the big blind, then replay the previous hand and check which player is in the big blind; it was me in both hands. Being the big blind 2 hands in a row is unfair! I thought I noticed this before so I started watching to see if it would happen again, to me or anyone else. I have seen no other instances of this happening to other players; which adds to the argument that players who voice their opinions, without praising the program, are being marked to lose.