Pokerstars Is Fixed

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First, I find it funny that people ridicule this so much b/c it is clearly a serious enough issue that it gets more attention than most other posts.

I have been playing 1.5 years. Started at 1/2 and now play mostly 20/40 limit, some low limit NL, and various tourneys. I have been a winning player since the beginning.

Like our poster, I used to think online poker was rigged (especially Party). I used PT(sample size >100K) to perform some rudimentary analysis, (ex. how often certain hands are dealt, how often they win 2, 3, 4 handed etc.) and found that they conform so closely to what is mathematically expected that it is impossible to conclude that online poker is rigged.

Secondly, logical analysis of the possible motives behind rigging are absurd. The arguments I have heard and my responses are:

1--Juice the pot to increase the rake: just plain silly. Rake is already a monster for the sites.

2--The programmers are nerdy, sadistic SOBs that are trying to exact revenge on us players: also just plain silly but a humorous thought.

3--Keep the fish from losing it all and reduce the edge of the winners. This argument has some plausability, but if you consider how easy it would be to prove that the sites are not fair, and what they and their auditors have to losethis too is just silly. Risk/reward just isnt there.

If its any consolation to you, I have felt exactly what you are going through, and so has every player I have talked to...but its just that the number of hands you play is so great, that more wierd stuff happens. Playing live is a good antidote to this.