Stellar first post! So much wisdowm.
I don't know about ignition so i can't say much other than we are in covid Lockdown in Australia I'm bored and figure joint a site play few games
well basically i join. i enter a tournament and go top and have some insane suckouts to come second in 179 player tournament for the first game is fascinating.
So I then dial up the money and wow! the bad beats on the bubble! for some not insignificant cash , repeated low percent Ridiculousness . I've played 15 years tens of thousands of
hands probably... I'm seeing some fascinating stuff at ignition, is it cooked I don't know. I assume so, they want us busted to get the buy in fee
what I can do is give some of you a firsthand account of some of the things behind the scenes in such sites. so I'm up in Singapore and I'm speaking to my buddy in China and he said he will come down and visit. I say how can you get a
visa so quick he says that's alright I have one for Malaysia you cross the border I've got a team in JB, I said what do you mean, so he gave me an address I went to an apartment Tower up to a floor floor went into a locked room there were 20 guys on 20 terminals he told me that he is now in computer games gaming
Apps in China mostly
baccarat but poker and
blackjack too. he laughed he said they're making a few million a week this is US dollars not Chinese renminbi AS
. he explained what do those guys do he said they work 24 days a month and then they take a few weeks off that work 13-16 hours a day and they are ON each table making sure that the real players never win by providing cards that will screw them over.
I said I don't get it why you do this he said we make sure the player never wins. I said why do you want to rip them off just take a rake if you had a rake then eventually you will win everything. he said no that's not what we do he said you take it ALL today
I said then they might not come back tomorrow he said they will I said how much money are you doing he said they probably load up with $10 to $50 at a time. I said just take a rake and entry fee per game you win it all within a week he said no he said if we don't win it today then a competitor might get them tomorrow. I said If i have a bad experience then i won't come back tomorrow, he said we want a
it all today
I said that's the most stupid short-sighted business strategy I've ever seen. he said China is everybody is ripping everybody off and you don't care about next week you just want to win today before they beat you.
sorry about the really shity formatting I'm voice typing broken fingaz
the guys work 13 hours a day to 16 hours they get paid around about 50,000 a year which is a shitload of money for China. they get the food delivered and get the girls sent up for night-time entertainment. we give them clothing and cigarettes, accommodation and flights. this was a large 4 bedroom apartment in a 5 star hotel resort complex, 20 young guys there just sitting at screens making sure players don't win by choosing the cards that will appear.
What happens at ignition I don't know. but I saw it and I know for a fact that that is how these websites operate. they can making a few million dollars per WEEK from a lot of players losing a few dollars at a time .
in regards to poker what seems to happen is they can remove 16 cards from a deck for a hand, maybe a 3 4 5 & 6 or a particular suit, which means players are more likely to be on a draw or have hit plus outrageous draws which means more bust outs which means more rebuys the money it made from getting people to bust quickly and rebuy.
Yes I fully understand what happens when you play high volume of hands and variance and random probability but the amount of times in a four handed game you see an example AdQdQ flop and some ones got an AKd another a 10Jd another 3d7d another Q6d type all in bingo. Particularly near that bubble. Fascinating those crazy hands.
