My letter to Pokerstars

[edfurlong]

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I posted this before: I don't know whether Stars is rigged or not, all i know is i played there for 3 months and lost 2000$ overall.
I moved to Tribeca and won 15000$ in the same period of time (about 3 months).
I probably improved my game, but not by that much....

So, i continue to play on Tribeca.
For whatever reason Stars didn't work out for me.

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LOL

[fluorescenthippo]

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lollerskates

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[KSOT]

He's got one part right for sure. The turn card completes the first part of a backdoor draw 95% of the time.

[pocketse7ens]

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lollerskates

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[Lestat]

I hadn't even considered that (I don't play NL). I suppose you could run the numbers of every all-in occurance on the turn.

[RoyalMag]

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I'd like to see them implement a "your statistics" page, showing all the little things we'd like to see. I don't trust Pokerstars either, but I do realize its far fetched to think theyre scamming me.

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I read a post on here a while ago, can't remember who it was by, where the poster admitted that when he first started playing online poker he was convinced that it was rigged due to the amount of bad beats etc.

But at the time of writing the post he had been playing for a number of years. When he looked at the stats of all the hundreds of thousand of hands he had played, all the hands had won roughly the expected number of times based on their relative strengths.

I think all new players go through this stage when they hit their first bit of negative variance, I know I have, but we don't see the full picture with the limited number of hands we have played.

Its also a lot easier to remeber all the hands where we suffered a bad beat, or our AA was beaten by a lower PP than to remember all the occasions where we actually won with the strongest dealt hand, or when we inflicted a bad beat on others!

[Sparta45]

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Plz post their response so I can read the funny.

Mucho Thankso,
El Edo

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Yes, please post their response. You can never laugh too much.

[DaN_05]

Just get your money in with the worst hand then, simple. Money everytime!!

[BruinEric]

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It seems to me that if two players are all-in on the flop in one of your tournaments, the turn card almost always gives the hand that is behind more outs. I also feel that the river card helps the hand that is behind way more often than the statistical probability.

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If you actually believe this is true, you should adjust your play and call all-ins with a greater range. Heck -- anytime you face a pre-flop all-in from a known tight player, you should call with total and complete garbage since "riverstars" will come through for you.

Of course, there's no meaningful evidence this is true, but that shouldn't stop you from "Calling Your Way to Riches."

[Joe O]

The entire reason for threads like this is that "RiverStars" is catchier than "PartyRiver".