Cash games on line are rigged. A friend of mine is a programmer and built an on line poker site so that we could play our normal house game on line during the COVID-19 crisis. The frequency of outrageous bad beats is so much less than with regular on line poker. My friend's little site (just one cash table) actually feels like a live game.
Cash poker on line has too many bots raking in profits for the poker companies. Some poker companies boast that all players are anonymous and this is supposed to protect you against sharks. All it does is provide cover for the poker company bot players. One site even boasts you can change your username 3 times a day! Total cover for their own bot players.
Tournaments on line might be rigged to a small degree but I'd say they're largely honest.
Biggest problem is on double or nothing tourneys or cash play is cloaked Bots that are undetected by the poker sites. You've got some players playing 100 low stakes double or nothing tournaments a day, day in and day out, 365 days a year, 10 tables at a time, for about 10 cents per tourney profit. Thousands of hours a year for 1/9th minimum wage per hour. Those sorts of numbers are only possible or feasible with bots. Go to Sharkscope, look up "emperor" and "Hyper1on" to name but 2 of these bot users.
Can a computer generate a truly random number? From the MIT School of Engineering.
https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/can-a-computer-generate-a-truly-random-number/
Bovada is not only rigged, they dont even try to hide it. Just enter "cheating at bovada" into google search and read the posts. I can attest to the fact that they are rigged. The most common post is something like this, "After I made a withdrawal I could not win to save my life." It's true. Ive played poker for 20+ years and have an M.S. Mathematics. Im consistently succesfull playing live. After I won 1 torneyment at Bovada and made a withdrawal they punished me with their bots. Couldnt win anything for 2 years. Everytime Im in the top 10 un a big tourneyment with about 20% of the field remaining, I get AA or KK and get raised all in by rags... lose everytime. Most recently I had 350,000 chips and pocket kings. Bet 30k. Was raised all in by bot with 465k chips and 4, 5 offsuit. 5 on the flop, 5 on the river. Do you really believe a real player makes that move? Not a chance, not in a million years. It wasnt a one off... happens every time. Ill never give them another penny.
I believe that online poker is not fake. This is just software. This is a specially designed program. Therefore, repetitions of some hands may occur. A weak hand can win a strong hand. It's poker
and you will go to Allin with 3 and 8 different suits? Flop ace 10 2. I have A2 and they beat me. And this happens very often. What is this deception or so many morons
haha, happens to me but i know why. I just go bluffing with full tilt mode. Allin with 9 high and it's gone.It is funny that the day you deposit money you winnnnnnnnn and the next day you loooooooooooose. No?