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While it's true a computer RNG is never 100% random it's so close it makes no practical difference. Most RNG methods rely on some outside input as a "seed" for the randomness and it's true in simple systems this would be taken from the computer's clock, but RNGs used by gaming companies are more sophisticated than that. To generate randomness they use things like audio patterns from radio on random frequencies, audio of traffic noise, even the decay of radioactive samples!
I'm not even going to get into auditing and other reasons any RNG meddling would be noticed and proved quickly if it was actually happening.
When you claimed that DYMs are "not poker in any shape or form", you were being ironic?
As a prize winner, when you criticised someone for posting pointless one-liners, you were being ironic?
My point is, the hand just sounds badly played... and that's nothing to do with randomness.
Many congrats, too, on that "near-miss" in the VLV Semi-Final. Missing the Seat in the Final but netting £990 (?) ain't so bad, eh?
and more players who fail to understand that online has become tougher, and cant accept that, that maybe the reason they either cant win / or dont win as much as they used to as they have failed to improve themselves
2. Howvever online has an anonimity(sp?) factor to it, so some people don't mind gambling more than they would do live.
3. Sky uses mainly 6 max tables. These are far more action and thus mean higher variance than on other sites which are mainly FR/live.
4. You play far more hands online than live so variance is gonna take hold far quicker.
5. Sky is a fairly tight knit community. Usually when I'm playing a tournie I'll be at a table with 2/3 people who I have literally played thousands and thousands of hands with, and the other 2/3 I will have some small notes or will usually recognise and have a general idea of how they play. If you are a total newbie to the site then no one will know you game at all.
For example for the first time ever yesterday I played a load of 1.10/2.20 tournies (The only way I'm gonna get in the TSP freeroll is via tournie points so grind grind grind) and on one particular table I had notes on 4 players.
6. Finally you may not be as good as you think you are. Your first week/month was just a fluke and you are using these good old days to reinforce the idea that you are not a 'fish', so rather than accepting that you need to change your game you are blaming other people.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion and that is great as it makes for healthy debate,i myself am an average player and i have no god given right to win BUT i do invariably get my money/chips in when i am in front so i DO expect to win the hand more often than not,but the fact remains that i dont,xxx
Then last night I played the 9.25 £2.25 BH (donk hunter)
I got at least 10 horrific calls against my big aces and big pairs and 10 times my best hand held up, hence 10 bounties and £14 in the bankroll (ty donks)
The best one was guy raises 5 x BB with A9 I have A10 I flat call, flop is A 10 3 rainbow, I check, he shoves 8,000 chips (BB = 150) and I gleefully call,
I went on to finish second for another £31 so £43 profit for my £2 outlay.
In the 3 weeks of pain I was about £40 down so 1 tournament repaired the damage!!
Todays SESAME STREET WORD OF THE DAY IS..........VARIANCE
Dave
selective memory perhaps?
Firstly I went on holiday with 6 lads and played live poker morning, noon and night (round of golf in between) and the bad beats were exactly the same as online. One of our chaps in particular hit the river card that many times it was unreal but as I was dealing I could not argue !! The person who won the most over the holiday was the one we had to teach how to play on the first day !! and trust me we were not letting him win our money so he will play again !!
Secondly, I do not believe people such as Tikay or any of the other sky boys and girls would or could continually work and play on Sky Poker knowing something was not right with the system.
not facts, selective memory, and ur right not just 4u, 4 loads of people.
do u not even understand the difference bewteen a casino and poker? - all casino games have a house edge, the house need this for them 2 make a profit, plus in some games the edge can increase if it is not played optimumly. in poker, the house edge is the rake!! if me and you were to play 100 russian roulette game rite now, Sky woulnd't care who won, but they wud av made £20 in rake for doing nothin
Eventually, people will work this out, but it's taking a while.
Poker is NOT a game against the House. Poker is a game between the players, & the House does not have the slightest interest in which player wins.
Sky Poker is part of a very large & reputable organisation, who happen to be OCD about compliancy. The Company is doing very well - very well indeed. Traffic & revenues are all running at record Levels, & there is (are?, I'm unsure of the grammar there) miles of headroom to grow further.
Why on earth anyone would think Sky Poker need to mess with something that is clean, honest, & profitable, particularly on such flimsy evidence (think "Sample Size" please) is quite beyond my understanding. It also assumes that the Staff, & I, are stupid, & corrupt. We are neither.
You cannot seriously think Sky Poker is anything except clean, as are the very vast majority of Online Poker Sites. I just don't believe you could possibly think that.
And it does irritate when time & time again it is suggested that Sky Poker staff are part of a conspiracy to defraud - because that is what you are suggesting.
So I'm sorry for the cheap jibes, but you'd rather face cheap jibes than be described as dishonest, which is what you are suggesting, & which I find grossly offensive.