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 Originally Posted by DaNutsInYoEye
The only thing more amusing than people complaining about a poker site being rigged is all the people that insist on proving to them that it's not.
Damn Nuts, you took the wind out of my sails with that one. I do apologize for bumping this thread again, but I think I have something interesting and amusing and reasonable and NEW to say that will show how insane it is to think online poker is rigged. So disregard this post unless you're new and are harboring crackpot theories.
The other day I was dealt two mid PP's, 77 and 88. You best hope is a set in this situation. Well, both times times I flopped a quad. I believe the flops were 774 and 882. No overcard, no "rigged" card. And it was tough to get a fish to bite on these. It was squeezing blood from a turnip.
So, for each "rigged setup" that is claimed to get chips in the middle, here are two that did the exact opposite, thus negating the "rigged" profits. Flopping a set would have caused more action, an over card would have caused more action, even four to a flush would've caused more action. Stupid online poker for not taking advantage of their awesome rigging power.
And yesterday, I limped from BB K3o I believe, three seeing the flop. A K and a 3 flop. This alone wouldve been enough to seal the pot. But the turn was 3, and the river was, guess what, another 3! The only reason THIS pot was huge was because the player limped AK and gave no thought to what I could've POSSIBLY been betting on. A fishy play. And two out of the three these times I made the joke, something like, damn, I don't need a quad to win, can't these cards be spaced out over a couple hands? If they were, that would certainly cause more action, it would be a fine rigging maneuver.
What the conspiracy theorists fail to see is that these flops, full house flops, quad flops, flush flops, don't create more action but detract from it. The only reason it LOOKS like the opposite is that players are foolishly betting into these boards.
Say I see the flop with KQh and the flop is A53h. The fishy fish who is seeing it with A3o (cuz Axo is a MONSTER holding) starts betting like crazy, probably never entertaing the idea that somebody else could POSSIBLY be holding two hearts, or at the very least a flush draw. And when the A's and 3's get taken down, rigged!
If the online poker were rigged, you'd never see this, a player would any experience might slow way down seeing a board like this, and these flops are not the ones that generate the most action.
I don't need to reiterate all the stuff about odds, and how any combination is possible, and with enough hands all possible permutations will be seen, so that is all. I hope this was moderately helpful to somebody.
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