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I'm starting to wonder
I really am.
I've never said that it's impossible that RNG can be rigged to set up more action. I think anyone who says it's 100% impossible is as big a fool as the those of latter years who laughed at anyone who said the world might be round or that germs could be real. But it's always seemed illogical to me that there was any need.
One of my mates is at the top of the computing game and says it would be easy to set up an algorithm that set up action for certain limits at certain levels based on player's game patterns. Very easy. "It's not like your average poker player could notice it or even begin to try and prove it" were his exact words. TBH, he still thought it unlikely. But not even close to impossible.
But I'm really starting to wonder of late. I've bubbled many times of late. And never with my money in behind. I've never been the luckiest of gamblers anyway but I'd expect maths to see me through occasionally. But forget me.
I've been grinding £5dyms of late. And time, and time, and time again I see the crazy happen. I know it turns into a shove fest and the percentages are never that big in the first palce. But I've kinda, even in hands not involving me, developed a knack of knowing when an underpair is going to be hitting a straight. And I'm right too often.
This isn't scientific. Not even close. It's pure instinct. And, as ever, I know I could be entirely wrong.
But I'm beginning to wonder. Seriously wonder. To the point of giving it up. Room in your ward Doc Elsa? lol
I've never said that it's impossible that RNG can be rigged to set up more action. I think anyone who says it's 100% impossible is as big a fool as the those of latter years who laughed at anyone who said the world might be round or that germs could be real. But it's always seemed illogical to me that there was any need.
One of my mates is at the top of the computing game and says it would be easy to set up an algorithm that set up action for certain limits at certain levels based on player's game patterns. Very easy. "It's not like your average poker player could notice it or even begin to try and prove it" were his exact words. TBH, he still thought it unlikely. But not even close to impossible.
But I'm really starting to wonder of late. I've bubbled many times of late. And never with my money in behind. I've never been the luckiest of gamblers anyway but I'd expect maths to see me through occasionally. But forget me.
I've been grinding £5dyms of late. And time, and time, and time again I see the crazy happen. I know it turns into a shove fest and the percentages are never that big in the first palce. But I've kinda, even in hands not involving me, developed a knack of knowing when an underpair is going to be hitting a straight. And I'm right too often.
This isn't scientific. Not even close. It's pure instinct. And, as ever, I know I could be entirely wrong.
But I'm beginning to wonder. Seriously wonder. To the point of giving it up. Room in your ward Doc Elsa? lol
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under the mattress....don't trust banks).....if u read the site u can win....but its a very frustrating journey...u need to be perfect all the time with either ur 5.7 or a.k...and then it changes..bummer mate!!!
My argument has never been that the RNG couldn't be fixed. It could. Easily.
My argument has always been that due to the randomness of poker there was little need.
But I'm seriously starting to wonder. So many all-in pres turning into straights and sets I'm genuinely not far of giving this game up. Maybe I'm just unlucky or on a mega downswing and my stats are unique to me. I can but go on instinct.
I'm actually starting to think I'm just not born to gamble. I was born to write. F#ck this sh'te. Bye, bye cruel world of poker, I've genuinely had enough now. Folded aces in a dym to the other 4k chip leader jamming over an all-in to a 600 stack just now. The clown proceede to double up the other players and I didn't cash. He knocked me out with 66 against AK in the end. Do these things happen to other people? Didn't think so.
Stay cool though bud, you were getting right narky on a few threads there.
You're better than that. By miles. Humour eclipses all ;-)
team51 open door policy now too, so if you want to join the team just speak up and you're in m8
And yes . . . these things do happen to other people (me, with monotonous regularity).
Have railed you from time to time also and I think your game is pretty strong.
Its interesting to see this post from you.
Have tyo admit I feel the same way, as I know many do. Your post isnt inflamatory or derogatory. Its just stating what you see, again what many of us see. There will always be people who instantly dismiss things, but I do think they are wrong to do so.
Am not saying I feel strongly either way. But people should be encouraged, as you do and say, to say..."really?". Why shouldnt they?
Good skill out there
Can't think of who I had in mind when i wrote this
But you put yourself in this category of winning players and dismiss all other pov's out of hand, almost seeming like an ego trip. That sounds harsher than I mean it, just cant say it any other way. Winning player doesnt essentially mean good player. Losing player doesnt essentialy mean bad player. In any poker fomat, anywhere, anywhen this doesnt hold true
I would love nothing more than to have my faith in online restored beyond reasonable doubt. I would once again invest serious money and ride it out. But taking all the pro's and con's into account I dont feel able to do so.
I sincerely wish you all the best bud, but I truly think you only opt to see a small part of the picture.
But heck, as a winning player, why see anything else. I doubt I would!
i am sure that these are set up to play like this...
picture this 2 ppl are playing hu both start with £10..lets say one of the first hands is aa v kk...the money will go all in pf...if not def by end of the hand...so thats £20 in the pot...how much of this does player who wins get cos of rake?
the more action hands = bigger pots = more rake.
im not saying its just sky its evry poker company..and day in day out millions of ppl player online poker. were just the fish in a big pond.
That you cant apply your thoughts unilaterally, making others queries and questions moot.
I've contributed to this forum for maybe 18 months now. I cant count the amount of times that very experienced live and online players have posted their potential doubts, or had an evoloution in thinking. But you still dismiss these out of hand. Despite not having the most extensive experience yourself, also having practically no experience of real live poker.
Also that the online game isnt in shades of black and white, there are very clear technical and legal issues that you dont recognise, that there are - and have been - corrupt scandals in the industry as standard.
I just dont think you should dismiss peoples POV's so blindly. I'm not saying I feel strongly either way any more. I like to gather information, go away and look at varied source material. I've had a huge change in perspective since I started posting, on many aspects.
But simply put, I cant reconcile the action I see online to my extensive experience live. Just speaking for myself, I dont feel it plays the same or feels the same. But thats just me.
This isnt an attack on you or the industry. I think your a decent guy overall, who has made very kind and worthwile contributions to the community.
It just frustrates me when people treat online poker as though its an untaintable entity. That it is beyond the realm of reproach.
Its like you think people just get a few bad beats and make a snap decision that its potentially corrupt. Lol, this is in fact true for many though. But naturally there are different camps.
With being out at different venues 4 perhaps 5 nights a week I come into contact with a wide spectrum of players, who have diversified thoughts on online. This is something that you likely dont tap into much. Many successful live players refuse to play online for a variety of reasons. Everyone has a story 95% of them being detrimental.
i think everybody wins and loses with online poker. i myself do not trust it, yet i pay and play, because i enjoy my poker...
you go through the ups and downs, i know this, just coming off a 3 month bad run..
we all make good and bad calls. bad bets...
at the minute i have played alot of dyms. 6 at a time.
there are a lot of straights, flushes . runner runner wins coming from behind...
and then you get the idiots(YES IDIOTS) who call nice big raises or all ins with any 2 suited cards, i am talking lets say 2k raise , they call it with 84 hearts. and they are hitting the flush or straight...
ihave played over 300 dyms in 5 days on here. good and bad results.. had my AA KK QQ smashed.. i even went 4 whole days without hitting any overcards to someones pair, all in..
but today was the joker in the deck.. i played an IDIOT who went all in on every single hand... he won the first hand. then everyone kept stacking, then he lost then won, you can guess , he won playing like an absolute idiot..
of the 5 days i have been playing i have seen alot of good play and alot of bad play. to be honest i have seen the bad play pay off more than the good play.
i have made that many notes on people playing and plays it can get too long a list..
i agree, you do not have to be good to win, you have to be lucky.. i have played in a few where the AA hit set and u have ppl chase the street and catch runner runner and win..
only today on a sat, not played a hand in 20 mins, go all in with my nice hand, only to get a 5K raise (15BB)called by rubbish and yes they hit.
so all i can say, you do not have to be good to win in any tourny, you need the luck.. because you can make bad calls and hit..
i think this site has got more new players on it and they seem to be donks... they have won by playing rubbish none starter hands.. so they see this is how to play..
now i know that you will say that poker is chaging and developing, but there are always none starter hands old school and new...