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I get dealt pocket queens. i raise to 7 times the big blind. Someone calls.
Flop 10 4 8
He raises, I push all in. he calls. he shows queen 10. Next card is a 10.
What do i do?
Is Online Poker rigged? I am almost 100% sure that it is and that is why I am just fed up with it. You can be the best player in the world and go online and lose to cheaters who get paid by the site to win.
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Posted by aspas2:
"something about my cards not coming out and it wasn't nice and I wish he didn't win so I could has the monies"
Is Online Poker rigged? I am almost 100% sure that it is and that is why I am just fed up with it. You can be the best player in the world and go online and lose to cheaters who get paid by the site to win.
The site rigs the cards for sure.
This was at fulltilt.
Any help on what to do? Is it rigged?
IMHO the only thing in my online poker related experiences that has even come remotely close to looking to like it may have been rigged was this:
There was this guy on this poker forum I sometimes frequent and after he made some silly posts that didn't really fly with some of the other posters... He went on to get a couple tickets into the ol' forum lottery, said lottery had around 35,000 entries, 7 winners were drawn, each winning ticket scoring a sweet $50. Now, just for a laugh, or possibly to provoke someone into throwing their keyboard at the roof in some hope it will crash back down and knock them sideways into a less ridiculous dimension... This guy, from the forums, managed to be the recipient of not one, but two of the $50 prizes (out of the 7 drawn from around 35,000)
But, even then, I didn't resolve that it was in fact rigged, I considered the possibility, considered the benefits of doing such things and then considered the phrase "What would Jesus do?" and I realised, that Jesus would have a hand in exactly something like this, he's a sneaky little messiah.
So next time your pretty cards get beaten by other cards, less pretty, but ultimately arranged in a more satisfactory poker-hand formation than your cards, even though your cards whispered to you pre-flop that you should go all in because they were feeling pretty confident that such impressive specimens of twins such as themselves couldn't possibly be beaten by some Ace-Hole and his kid brother of only 2 or 3. Don't assume the site is rigged, this makes no sense and will only convince you that playing poker with your weak hands is the only way to get that river card you're wildly screaming at your computer to produce to appear. The reality is, these happenings and other likewise comical moments in your life where you fail even though you're pretty sure you performed remarkably well, these are all just ways Jesus likes to prove he does indeed exist. And he knows how to have a good laugh and doesn't really take your life as seriously as you would have liked to believe. The reality is, Jesus is probably sneaking up behind you right now, to give you a wedgie just for making this post.
Anyway, seriously, Jesus, funny guy. Funny funny guy. On the other hand your post was completely insane and makes you look like a total nutcase who has probably on least one occasion been confused as to why you lost when you had three pairs and they only had trips.
edit:
oh yeah, proof that life is rigged to screw this guy over for those that missed it:
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i just can't understand why people keep on telling that online poker is rigged after they have lost a hand or even a few hands ... you don't hear them complaining when they have won a hand or a few hands with a lucky river card .
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Posted by aspas2: and lose to cheaters who get paid by the site to win.
The site rigs the cards for sure.
Get paid by the site to win? Thats sure is a a strange way to make business? They wouldn't have to pay me to win, I would be quite happy anyway? With winning.
What happened was sick, but never give up as there will be hands where you might get same kind of luck. But if it happends that after months of plays you're still not winning a thing then maybe you should quit online poker and stick to live poker online...
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If online poker wasnt rigged then someone really good could easily grind away all players on lets say 0.10 0.25, the poker sites want a lot of players = a lot of possibly gambling addicts depositing all their money on their site ... threfore the rigg "slows down" the good player by letting them loose with the better hand against some donk that called with gutshot and probably nevr will make a cashout
Yes it is rigged, now that you know our secret we will have to shut down all our poker sites and call it a day. Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us!
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Why would it be rigged? Like some of the cheating scandals, if it was rigged, then the truth would come out at some point in time. Plus the sites make money by people PLAYING, thru buyins and rake. They don't make money on who wins or loses, they just want more people to play, period.
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Your just having a down swing, you dont suck at poker honest, best thing you can do is reach in to your pockets and play higher stakes. Only the low stake tables are rigged.
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well done, you have found the ultimate secret behind online poker. sites paying people to win. lol now you should stay away from that site and stop posting useless threads.
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Posted by B1gfoot: Your just having a down swing, you dont suck at poker honest, best thing you can do is reach in to your pockets and play higher stakes. Only the low stake tables are rigged.
Yes, raising the stakes after a bad-beat is a very good way to recover from a bad-streak ...
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thats not what b1gfoot was going to say. hes right if he says best is to deposit and climb in limits - if you really plan to play serious poker and probably earn a bit money. these microlimits are waste of time and money.
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yesterday was such a day pokerstars mtt 20.000 garantie ad mid stages i had a good stack of 23.000 the one next to me had 30.000 he raisen preflop up to 6.000 i hold pocket aces in my hand so i go allin he folows me allin also and he has pockets aces also the only difrence was then on the river he hits a flush i was fucin pist of.playing for a few hours and just before at least a litle price out of the tourny
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Posted by T3ddyKGB: thats not what b1gfoot was going to say. hes right if he says best is to deposit and climb in limits - if you really plan to play serious poker and probably earn a bit money. these microlimits are waste of time and money.
thread is a joke anyways.
Nope, I just want him to play at my tables :}, so I can cheat him. Dont quite agree with microlimits are waste of time and money its how I built a roll, but know what your getting at.
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well your certainly the better play, still this is my opinion. and i think i proved my self that im right, simply because i blow off all those $10 no deposits on micro limit while i make "profit" on lower limit like NL25/50. so no i cant beat micro limit lol, but yes i beat higher limits ! microlimit might be good if your new to poker to gain some experience, but to play serious poker ...how? if you play all the time vs 5-6 players or even the whole table no matter if you raise high or even all-in. the chance to win vs half the table is based on luck imo, so thers no "long run" just my opinion.
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each limit has its donks - no matter if NL2 or NL4000 100k hands on microlimit? no thanks man. i seriously call that a waste of money. if someone gave me the money back i wasted on microlimits, then i assure you that i rather would put all this money in a lottery than to play micro again generaly your right that you have to play an certain amount hands on each limit, but i find this starts off with NL25.
