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A wise man once said,
"Every time you play a hand differently than the way you would play it if you could see all of your opponent’s cards, they gain. Every time you play your hand the same way you would if you could see your opponent’s hand you gain. The same principle applies to your opponents."
Guess who?

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Anway, this stuff doesn't horrify me the way it does some of you. My 59 years in this world have taught me that the majority of people who don't do wrong, at least as far as money is concerned, choose that honest path only because it is the better play. In other words most people won't pass up unfair advantages if they can get away with it.

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So would you cheat as well if you could get away with it?

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Looked like a legit OP to me, I don't get all the hate

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What an awful, awful, post.

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How about explaining why it's an awful post instead of posting twice telling us all it's an awful post?

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Well, okay, but it's difficult to know where to start. I'm not sure my grasp on this scandal is great, though I have read every post that I am aware of, but his seems complacently poor. Why didn't AP have software in place to spot the cheating? What a bizarre question. Possibly for the same reason they had software in place to do the cheating. Why wasn't the cheating picked up? Some reports say it was, but the security people were told not to worry their pretty little heads over it. The person/people cheating were at the top. They weren't even keeping HHs beyond two months [they allege].

Most people are on the make and the best way forward is to make sure it's in their best interests not to cheat, apparently. And how do we achieve this goal? Do we do it by concerted effort against any site that is caught cheating? No, we do it by accepting cheating and going straight back to the site that just got caught shafting people if we deem it to be in our own narrow short-term interests, according to Sklansky.

It really is an awful, shoddy, complacent, post.

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If they were lying, it doesn't mean they were in on it. But it does mean they were willing to lie.

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orly?

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... Many of the best players are not playing at Absolute right now. The games are probably juicier and Absolute is probably bending over backwards to entice you to go there. This isn't the Civil Rights Movement. We are talking about internet poker. If you think you can win more there, as long as you remain vigilent and are a bit quicker to quit when you are losing then normal, I say go for it.


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Thanks for the terrible advice.

[/ QUOTE ]so to sum it up online poker is a dangerous shady gamble.run by rogues thieves and other lowlifes, keep your wits about you and hope you get your money out safe.we have officially gone back to the old riverboat style games then.
REWIND poker 25years. cheating is fine as long as you are owners of the company short of the actual owners of AP turning themsleves in, nothing can be done about this directly. spreading information and makeing people aware are the only weapons. no players = no $$$, the only power we have in this "free" market economy

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A new Theory of Poker

"Everytime a cheater gets caught looking at our hole cards, and we keep playing with him, he wins. Everytime a cheater gets caught looking at our hole cards, and we keep playing with him, we lose."

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this post was classicly terribly sklansky in a hilariously awesome way, as always.

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A wise man once said,
"Every time you play a hand differently than the way you would play it if you could see all of your opponent’s cards, they gain. Every time you play your hand the same way you would if you could see your opponent’s hand you gain. The same principle applies to your opponents."
Guess who?

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Laugh. Hard.

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No, we do it by accepting cheating and going straight back to the site that just got caught shafting people if we deem it to be in our own narrow short-term interests.

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Whether anyone likes it or not, it's going to happen. What would you want 2+2 to do in this situation? A boycott? Absolute Poker with no 2+2ers mean juicy games means 2+2ers going right back.