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online poker is an absolute con unless you have the funds to play high stakes, then people will not call so easily, thank you sky poker for being like every other site and deciding who will win, how sad and trust me i love your site but played my last game and advise all low stake players to do the same cause they pick and choose who wins and i have won a few. so many good hands playing against each other would never in a million years happen in real poker goodbve unfortunately sky earn your money from all the restof the fools that play on this site
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Maybe you had a bad night, but there's so much wrong with that I don't know where to begin. You play a lot of Freerolls, PLO & PLO8 MTT's, & variance in those is high.
If people call off light in low stakes poker, that's good, right?
It's not an "absolute con" it's poker.
The site does not & cannot "pick & choose who will win". How & why would they do that?
It does not happen in Live Poker? You can't have played much Live Poker then.
Not sure you should describe the players here as "fools", that's a rather sweeping & rude statement.
The chap who said this back in 2011 was a wise man, & you'd do well to listen to him.
"... you dont see so many bad beats on high stakes tables. most people are willing to take a chance when playing for small stakes....."
Dust yourself down, & maybe run a little better. I can't help you with playing advice, as you seem to be very profitable, but if you want some help with how to deal with the inevitable bad runs, & that fickle mistress called variance, fire away, & I & others will try to help.
Some nice comments in there about Sky Poker, thank you.
Can I just ask you about the highlighted part, as I thought that was an odd thing to say.
Supposing, just hypothetically for a moment, that your suspicions were true.
Why would there be that pause, "as if the cyber world was looking for something"?
Internet coding does not work like that, if it were to "look for something" there would not be a pause, it works at lightning speed, it's, in effect, instantaneous.
It'd be a bit of a giveaway, too, would it not?
No idea of Sky Poker do it, but many sites code a deliberate pause before the river for "dramatic effect". And of course, it always SEEMS longer if our hand is vulnerable, there is that lovely moment of suspense, as we stare at the board awaiting our fate.
Sky Poker is quite a profitable site, & has a significant slice of the UK & RoI market. It's part of a MUCH bigger Business, SB&G, which was sold last year for some £800 million. Much increased revenues since then have likely increased it's value significantly.
Given that Poker is not a "house" game - it's players v players, not players v site, the site gets it's juice whoever wins.
Why would SB&G (or any other Gaming site) risk all that when there is no gain, no motive?
FWIW, Sky Poker has dealt just shy of one billion hands. That's a LOT of evidence. And yet nobody, in all those hands, has found a scrap of credible evidence as to monkey business or jiggery-pokery.
Does any of that re-assure you?
Hope that has come across as intended. You've been here a very long time, & have played many thousands of games, so I know that, really, you must trust the site.
I still occasionally stand beside a Roulette wheel to watch though, as that fascinates me, as they write down every winning number, or watch that board which shows the result of the last ten spins.
"#17 has not hit for an hour, it must be due. "
"5 even numbers in a row, I'd best double up on odd"
Isn't that a strange thing? Many of these people are not daft, & yet they subscribe to that nonsense.
It's a bit like the blackjack player who thinks that if a "bad" player is last to act, he can affect their results.