| Posted by: lightning36 at July 10, 2006, 1:42 am | | Topic: Is online poker rigged??? An investigation! Forum: Card Chat |
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Logic and reason
This is my own opinion: rigging a poker site would be like a professional athlete stealing sporting goods from his or her team -- the risk of losing something good would dramatically outweight the gains from cheating. I'm trained in game theory, and I can tell you that experts in the field would suggest that this is ludicrous (hip hop afficionados might suggest that it is instead ludacris).
Thus, I personally believe that it is unlikely that major sites are in any way rigged. I know if I were running one, and I do have a business background, there is no way I would risk the mint that online poker sites make in rake just to add a few extra bucks.
History is full of cheats who are willing to risk all for extra gain, be it money, power, sex, etc. Just in recent memory in the US, these come to mind:
1) Enron
2) Richard Nixon
3) Bill Clinton
4) Major League Baseball Players
5) George Ryan, former Governor of Illinois
6) Track and Field athletes, heck almost any athletes
7) Tobacco companies
By the way, in the US a professional baseball player did steal from his team and was dropped from the team, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Any time there is a significant amount of money involved, there will always be greedy people who think that they can outsmart the system. Amazing how some people who "have it made" will take tremendous risks to get more ... and more ... and more ...
So ... whenever I hear people saying that people making unbelievable money wouldn't dare cheat and risk spoiling it for themselves ...
That being said ... seeing incredible cards come up in live games in Las Vegas and on televised matches, I do not think that what I see online is much different than elsewhere. However, I am amazed that on some sites (Titan for me), I almost always seem to lose on the river.
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