some thoughts on rigging, and sites vs. winning players

[TheRedRocket]

I was going to respond in another thread but the OP was so content low, it really didn't seem conducive to an actual discussion.

if a poker site was rigged it would have to be done in a way that still allowed for consistent winners, and was so slight that it would require an overwhelming amount of data to uncover it. Additionally it would have to result in a increase of profits to compensate for the risk of exposure which I think we can assume would be near collapse of player base.

this is why it seems so extraordinarily unlikely.

I do think that sites are concerned about and want to prevent winning players from taking too much money from losing players and off the site, especially now that the poker boom is over. instead of rigging it though they add things like Bad Beat Jackpots which takes an obscene rake from winning players and distributes it A)back to the site and B) to losing players in the form of a lottery ticket. Party's monster promo is another example of the same. These IMO are akin to rigging certain games, in that they become very difficult to beat and slow the amount of money a winning player accumulates.

My real concern about poker, beyond being able to easily access funds to play is that sites will continue to find ways to turn poker from a player v. player game of skill to run of the mill game where the house has to great an advantage to overcome.