Re: Why would online poker sites not rig their games?
Why would Amazon not take my CC number that I gave them and run around making a zillion purchases on it?
Why would my local casino not rig their blackjack game again me so that I lose my money faster? Don't give me that garbage that they are already beating me for a decent rate anyway. Obviously they can get my money faster with just a couple slight-of-hand tricks and the chances of them getting caught are incredibly minimal and besides, lots of big corporations who broke laws to make more money were happy to take similar risks.
Why would I not rig my home-poker game to make more money? T
At some point you just have to go on some amount of trust here. If they were rigged it seems extremely likely that it would be able to be detected and it would not lead to significantly more profits to justify the risk. They just wouldn't make that much more over running a fair game imo. Maybe they could set it up to make a little bit more. But not much. They already do well on the rake...and the nature of the game itself leads to the fish winning often enough to stay in the game okay.
People who think that even tournaments are rigged to supposedly redistribute the money back to the fish are just bad at poker. This seems to include a lot of people who like to boldly claim that they have played the game for a really long time and that somehow supposedly makes them an expert.
In the same way that the blackjack dealer who has been doing this for 25 yrs supposedly has seen enough hands and has enough experience to warrant telling me that taking insurance when you have a 20 is almost always a good idea because it's insuring a better hand.
In short, a lot of people are stupid. It's frustrating...but thankfully in the world of poker it's also profitable.
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