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Message: [QUOTE="KerouacsDog, post: 746308, member: 10398"] I love the arguments that 'if you think it's rigged, then why carry on playing?' Or 'if you think it's rigged, then you must be a bad player, who cant handle bad beats?' FWIW I believe that some flops are tweaked to become action flops, so that any people left in will get a piece of the flop, so to generate betting, and therefore more rake for the poker sites. The turn and river cards are also 'actioned', sometimes, for the same reason. So, you may ask, if you believe that, then why carry on playing? My reply would be Do you drink? Did you know that a bottle of wine that costs $10 to the consumer, will typically cost in the region of $4 to produce(from planting the vine, to production costs, to wages for everyone involved etc to the bottle hitting the supermarket shelf) so, you're being ripped of to the tune of $6 for each bottle, will that stop you drinking it? No, i didnt think so. We drink wine because we enjoy it, even if we are being conned over the price. Well, I enjoy poker, both online and live. Immensely. And it's cost me nothing over the 3 or so years Ive played online, as I've cashed out more than Ive deposited, so Im happy. Even if I had lost money, thats ok , it's still fun. As for being a bad player, no, i dont think so. i consider myself ok. Ive beaten 2000 in a MTT freeroll(6 hours of play), amongst other wins, and have frequently cashed at my local casino. I get my bad beats, the same as everyone else, and accept them. I know that any higher pair is roughly 80% to win against a lower pair, so of course the lower pair will win 1 in 5 times. This isnt about bad beats, and how many times you get dealt AA etc, this is about flops being actioned to hit whatever hands are left in play, so it doesnt matter whether you have AA, or 72os going into the flop, some of the time the flop will be 'actioned' to make you feel you are ahead to generate betting, and therefore, rake. So IMHO, whether this thread's results prove that AA or whatever has been dealt the statistical amount of times over x amount of hands or it doesnt will make no difference to me, as it's irrelevent to my, and many others'(good and bad players) theory about how poker is rigged.(some of it............) [/QUOTE]

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