Yes, I trust... But you need to know where you are playing... need to be a reliable poker site... Those poker rooms there are not very famous, I rather not to put my money on them.
I'm not sure your question but, Do I trust online poker? 100%, absolutely, positively NOT! Will I continue to play online poker? Yes! Call me a sucker but I'm going to keep doing it. Bad beats on all.
It depends on which poker sites you play, I trust pokerstars
Not really. The problem I find is that a lot of these rooms I swear have bots that play for the room and also bots that other people put into the room. Therefor I believe you are always at a disadvantage when playing online. Will I continue playing online? Of course I will but I will always have a open mind when playing online and just accept the fact that I lose more often then win.
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You hit the nail on the head! The name of the game is not poker, it is discipline. Pocket Aces does not guarantee you a winning hand. It's human nature to remember your aces getting busted by questionable hands, but not the umpteen times that you have pushed your bluff with a J4s to suck out a flush on the river.
As for the Magic videos, funny as they may seem, people are not taking them for what they really are -- entertainment. The videos are not advice. You watch enough of them, then you get it into your head that this is how online poker is in the real world. I liken this with product placements in TV, movies, and kids cartoons. You see it enough, then subliminally you just have to buy what somebody is selling.
Forums are a place where people usually come to vent and perpetuate the venting itself. This thread is no exception. Just look at the several one-line, barely readable, posts using the word "rigged", but no explanation of why they think it is rigged. The uninitiated, novice poker player will generally have the main takeaway that all online poker is, well, rigged!
XYZ2123 said:
You hit the nail on the head! The name of the game is not poker, it is discipline. Pocket Aces does not guarantee you a winning hand. It's human nature to remember your aces getting busted by questionable hands, but not the umpteen times that you have pushed your bluff with a J4s to suck out a flush on the river.
As for the Magic videos, funny as they may seem, people are not taking them for what they really are -- entertainment. The videos are not advice. You watch enough of them, then you get it into your head that this is how online poker is in the real world. I liken this with product placements in TV, movies, and kids cartoons. You see it enough, then subliminally you just have to buy what somebody is selling.
Forums are a place where people usually come to vent and perpetuate the venting itself. This thread is no exception. Just look at the several one-line, barely readable, posts using the word "rigged", but no explanation of why they think it is rigged. The uninitiated, novice poker player will generally have the main takeaway that all online poker is, well, rigged!
Hello, I've been playing for several years now and I do not see any special results in the game .. Recently, I have been plagued by doubts about the honesty of online poker. The more I play the more I meet the absurd moves, coolers and other dirt in the game. I do not know what this is connected with, but can not the same cards fall out three times in a row, one by one, in the tournament ?! What is the probability of this? Maybe someone will explain what's going on with the game? Please share your opinion about this. Thank you!
Vuske111 said:
Then, as you say, many more hands are played in Linia to live. What if, now eh seen several players wonder whether you are a player for the chat. To know you're not a bot. I think it's a good idea Greetings
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Please indulge me here, fresh in my memory, so my thought on do I trust online poker. Last night I shoved K3s in the bb with 12 bb over a min raise in the HJ. He delayed for a bit and called with 66; flop came J33, turn was a 6, whiffed the other 3 on the river. I was down, up, and down again. Is it rigged? IMO no, it's variance. How do think he felt when I flopped trip 3's, but then boated up himself on the turn? It can be a wild roller coaster.
From your scenario you are basically just describing the odds of probability; if you take a basic course in probability in math you will understand this statement.jfofla said:
But by no means should that take away your concerns about online poker, I have been playing online since around 2004-2005 and within that time-frame there have been numerous scandals’ of online poker sites including some of the largest sites known in the game.
Generally speaking playing online is fairly safe, but there is ALWAYS this thing called doubt that lingers in the back of one’s mind when their monster hands get continually crushed by rag hands with 1 or 2 outers.
If you are extremely concerned, the simple solution is to not deposit you money online and just play in freerolls, this way the only risk you are confronted with is the loss of your personal time.
bighert2 said:
Variance, yes. These are the hands you sometimes dread. You catch a set on flop, they get better set on turn. Then the river is either a hard luck story or a brag. And it really doesn't matter who won. It's poker.
I am tempted to make a general statement that you must be very young due to your gullible mind, but then I slap myself a couple of times to put me back on track ….. lol…. Because it is not just the youth that is gullible.
Since the advent of the internet and the easy access to information, no one should be ignorant to facts when a simple online search to multi millions if not billions of sites can inform anyone on mostly anything that had occurred.
FYI….. try doing a simple online search of online poker scandals’
Since the advent of the internet and the easy access to information, no one should be ignorant to facts when a simple online search to multi millions if not billions of sites can inform anyone on mostly anything that had occurred.
FYI….. try doing a simple online search of online poker scandals’
Pulsar said:
I realized something too. Sometimes, he who bets first sometimes wins. Then I learned that if you throw money at it, doesn't make it so.
NBB said:
As your response to the same response I gave to the guy I responded to is how do you relate a freeroll to a cash or paid tournament game?
I honestly believe that if you allow an online site to not only take your rake, but give your money to other players, they will do it. Think about it. If you own a poker site, you want as much money floating around as possible with the largest amount of players. That's how you make money. So it would make since to allow the good players along with the new depositors to win more. While causing the bad players, and addicts that will continue to deposit money to lose....
With that said, is the game random. Yea for the most part I believe it is, on the other hand. I do believe coin flip situations go more often to the good players that will stop playing when they are down. Along with giving the long shot wins to the bad players, and new depositors cause they want to give them a false scene of security. So when they run into a good player, and lose they will tilt, then redeposit. You cant tilt a good player very often, so why would you want them to lose to long shots, and lose their business? Knowing that if they are losing/not playing, you are losing rake. Then if they lose too much you lose, their entire bankroll.
something to think about.
With that said, is the game random. Yea for the most part I believe it is, on the other hand. I do believe coin flip situations go more often to the good players that will stop playing when they are down. Along with giving the long shot wins to the bad players, and new depositors cause they want to give them a false scene of security. So when they run into a good player, and lose they will tilt, then redeposit. You cant tilt a good player very often, so why would you want them to lose to long shots, and lose their business? Knowing that if they are losing/not playing, you are losing rake. Then if they lose too much you lose, their entire bankroll.
something to think about.