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Old 05-11-2006, 04:47 PM
UATrewqaz UATrewqaz is offline
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Default Re: Video News Story on Dirty Poker

Bob, the worst thing about this is that losing donkeys will eat this up.

"HA! I knew it, that's why I lost my buy in. I was being cheated. I'm too good to lose like that." ~ 60 VPIP .5/1 player

B&M players can convince themselves they are "break even" players when they lose, due to the nature of physical cash being harder to keep track of.

Online players have no such fantasy. They know they deposited $200 and now their account says $14.00, it's painfully clear that eveyr single dime was lost playing poker. Thus the part of the brain that can't accept "Gee I suck at this, that's why I'm losing" needs to invent other non-sense, so of course "The site is rigged!" or "players are cheating me!" are good ways to accomplish this.
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