Pokerstars is not rigged, sorry any dudes that thinks that it is and think that is the reason they can not win.
Point to note: With poker in the long run, the house always wins and only around 16% of players will be profitable, that leaves the other 84% either realising this and continuing to play for fun and to get better and a few claiming it is rigged.
Grinding while being a "losing" player will not generate profit, grinding as a winning player using proper bankroll management will generate profit, grinding as a winning player using improper bankroll management could generate profit, but more often this will result in a loss as well.
All that considered, if you meet the requirements, play with discipline, within BRM and continually learn and improve your game, you may have a chance of being profitable, try to take ANY short-cuts you will either accept it or be on here bloging incorrectly about rigged-ness.
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sorry to say your been selected by pokerstars set up game.it also happen to me same situation, if the sites wants to set u up its time to exit and to those dont believe wait until u lose impossible hands i would dare to you this is really happening ..
------------ i have some little mathematical flop analysis about reading hand history this might help u recover all yur losses at pokerstars but if yur asking me i already tried and prove it.only thing you will do is using yur mind review focus on the history what is the possible flop may come ??its not guessing but its 60 percent scientific method i search .some one stole it dont know who?but it was ike haxton i was twitted last.
Edited by superthight (09 February 2015 @ 07:19 GMT)
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I don't think that the game is rigged for a special set of players. When sites rigged, it was to give advantage to risky players. Risky players make more rake per table, and get more money in the game, both are important for the site's bottom line.
If at all they can only do it in small portion, because it is constantly monitored by 2+2 and others but maybe in a small scale they let the crazy players win more than their share.
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@pinotte I say not that you can get no bad beats in a casino,I play know many years and for me is more profitable to play poker in a casino.What happens sometimes in online poker is against every statistics. I know to that can happen you can get a bad run over weeks.But sometimes is it only unreal what happens online.When I lost in a casino I know I'm only unlucky this day and was not beaten by the software.So I get not a bad feeling. I know the game after I think is now 14 years that I play Poker.I have made in the last weeks on 2 site from 5$ND to 30$ and on the other sites 60$,I win,I lost look at the bad players on the table and all is normal.But then I loses all hands when I was in front I losing 8 from 10 hands with a min 80% on turn(and that happens the next days,not every time 8 from 10 but every big pot,so I got broke in the end).Sure that can happen sometimes but for me is happens to many times online.And I play only 2-4 hours online a day when I play.I can not say is rigged or not but I know when I have 80% on turn in a casino that the 80% are real 80%. And yeah is true when you think you have bad players online on the table go to a casino the greatest donks are there.The different in the most times you win vs the donks.
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Posted by CanadianAces:
Ive passed all the quizzes with better than 90% @ sitngo strategy.com ive also followed the free sitngo advice offered at sitngo planet. Not to mention the countless other games. I understand ROI and how to play tight at the beginning of tournaments and when to lossen up. I can fold a pair of QQ when four handed and someone shoves on the bubble of a sitngo and im 3rd in chips etc etc. Im not an idiot. Im not a pro but im not a fish neither. Ive tried harder over the last 365 days than at any other time playing online.
So because you passed a SNG quiz on some site you believe you are good enough to beat the games? It's not enough to be better than average, you have to have an edge greater than the rake to even be breakeven. What you describe is the standard ABC s**t that you will read pretty much everywhere, but it's bulls**t. Especially vs. bad players there's nothing wrong with loosening up at the beginning already to take an early game edge, there's no need to stick to premiums only. If you're in the SB and a nitty reg is in the BB raise any2. And so on. Folding QQ on the bubble as 3rd is rarely a good play, it'd have to be a super rare ICM scenario for this to be good (like you having 10BB and shortstack has maybe 0.5BB or so). These tight ICM folds are from time SNGWizard was used by all SNG-gurus of the past, however that program had no future-play-calculations at all. Maybe at $0.50 SNGs that 'content' you got from that site could work, but nowdays there are quite a few regs grinding $1.50s already and make a side income there, vs. them you will get murdered. Blaming the site for being unsuccessful will get you nowhere, on any site, and you will have the same thing occuring on any site.
Posted by superthight: sorry to say your been selected by pokerstars set up game.it also happen to me same situation
No, you are losing because you are a bad poker player.
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Remember busquet when he played on ept and got A2 shove against KK, player with KK flops full house K88, and busquet hit runner runner AA... What are chances, but it happends, as it happends online... What would say player with KK that live tournament is rigged??? Here is link of this situation
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it is rigged.thiefs.i will break the hands of any pokerstar employee for cheating me if i ever run into one of them
------------ my connection fine during freerolls as well as any other running programs.never an issue with connection lost.everytime and i mean everytime i play real money, my connection cuts out.every few hands it happens.in the middle of raises it happens most.seems like someone is watching your screen.too many people calling large bets with nothing and keep hitting river.turn after turn.impossible.
Edited by DMTTRaveler (08 January 2016 @ 01:01 GMT)
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... < Wow...! ...You'd make an excellent archaeologist the way you unearthed THIS dinosaur of a thread...
... < Actually I find PokerStars to be very solid in this manner... I almost never have a problem, and my ISP is some old backwoods redneck outfit way up here in the sticks...!!!
... < Now partypoker...? Whole other story.... It's just one big glitch with the occassional outbreak of poker... Not unlike any average small town across Canada where a hockey game breaks out occassionally amidst a beer brawl...!!!
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Posted by DMTTRaveler: it is rigged.thiefs.i will break the hands of any pokerstar employee for cheating me if i ever run into one of them
------------ my connection fine during freerolls as well as any other running programs.never an issue with connection lost.everytime and i mean everytime i play real money, my connection cuts out.every few hands it happens.in the middle of raises it happens most.seems like someone is watching your screen.too many people calling large bets with nothing and keep hitting river.turn after turn.impossible.
Really
Beware Pokerstars has a hidden camera in every house that has a stars account.
so they can keep an eye on every single player playing
so when you least expect it......Boom......you lose
the only way for players to avoid this is to move into an igloo
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They have the knowledge and are not afraid to use it,all the type of hustle(loosing river card with 1% chances to hit,disconnections in the betting moment) to put you in the tilt mode,to play angry and loose money.Nothing to do about it ,all the sites are rigged
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Pokerstars is a tough site to play on sometimes especially the hyper turbos and spin and go's at times they can be like buying a lottery ticket all luck based and no amount of skill will save you in those games even with the premium starting hands they are appealing because they are quicker but tough at times to win money it all depends on your luck that day
why would they make a software that cheats on you? that is NOT logical.
ONE TIP NEVER SMOKE WEED (not good for paranoid parrots)
NEVER USE DRUGS (not good for you schizophrenics)
SITES ARE NOT RIGGED YOU ARE SO SCHIZOPHRENIC FOR THINKING THAT!!!
No site is rigged!!! The world doesn't revolve around you, no one pays attention to you, why would you think some huge company pays attention to you, you are small, nothing!!!
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Hi how are you. I suggest you keep playing at pokerstars. For it is the best poker room and there are many tournaments. I se my bankroll with obly 20 dollar and deposited copper and more thanks times well if you want to not play there. I suggest you invest your mones in titan poker it is also good to play there. Luck
Its the same bad beats on every other site 888poker free roll 3 times i noticed AA getting cracked by 2 face cards. Party Poker huge pot 4 pocket pairs i have AA lose on the river against KK. Iron poker micro stakes cash game target a loose player shove with AJ get called by A8 magic straight on the river it's all luck you can read as many books as you want to those 2 outers on the river will still happen.
< Wow...! ...You'd make an excellent archaeologist the way you unearthed THIS dinosaur of a thread... 
