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I take my share of bad beats... no doubt... but why do people complain about the sites being rigged, yet continue to play? How do they justify it?!?!?! What rational intelligent person would throw good money after bad? Bottom line, sometimes you lose with pocket Aces... get over it. Poker is a game of skill, but also a game of odds and statistics... even pocket aces get cracked. If you can't handle the losses, take up knitting.

I hate to beat a dead horse here, but if you think it is rigged.... STOP PLAYING!!!! If you really believe it is rigged, why would you EVER continue to voluntarily put money in!!!!! Only an IDIOT would throw good money after bad. If I told you I had a coin that was weighted and 60% of the time it would come out heads, and 40% tales and I wanted to bet you even money for $10 a flip for a thousand flips, would you take that bet? Not if you had an ounce of sense in your head.... Online poker is no different

Add me to the complainers... I'm a very profitable live game player, and a -% ROI online player trying to turn things around. The more I study, the harder I try, and the more I work at improving my game, the more my cards absofuckinglutley suck. It is depressing. I just signed up for Stars... in 2600 hands, I've had AA twice, and lost once. On FT, I'm currently 1/7 in hands were I was a 70% favorite or better to win. I'm 1/5 on situations where I was an 82%+ favorite to win BEFORE THE RIVER!!!! I

Congratulations on doing $150k a year... I didn't know that I'd be able to do your tax return for you by the time we were done with this thread... jk

"But YOU act like because there is risk of getting caught, and they make enough money anyway, then THAT, is irrefutable evidence - it is not." I don't exactly know what this means. If this means that I'm suggesting that they do well financial by playing it straight, therefore they don't have to fudge the odds, that isn't what I'm arguing. My point is this, there is simply no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the sites are rigged. The problems with mass conspiracies is that they require mass effort

You are quite the conspiracy theorist! I just joined PS, and I've lost my full 2 initial deposits and I haven't even sniffed the bubble yet, so does my one experience completely refute your "new players are given the luck" argument? You sigh as though you are dead right, but you haven't refuted anything. Your logic is flawed. I'll demonstrate: You say: " it is a necessary evil from a business standpoint, if they didn't give luck upfront, they'd lost players we are not talking about a few extra dolalrs

That's pretty funny... a guy up $95k+ telling us it is rigged. Who was the benefactor exactly! If you really feel it is rigged, WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY?!?! What rational person would put their money into a rigged system? I'm fanatical about my own money, because I worked hard for it. For example, I had a very large balance at the regional bank where I keep my cash and standard expenses. This account was 7 figures. When they started charging me for electronic transactions between my money market, investment

I agree completely with the above. Tough position. You don't have enough chips to help the disaster. That is a scary board and could have hit anything. I regularly see the donks online play stupid broken suited cards, hand like Q10o for example, etc. J9o/s also comes to mind as a donkey hand that would call pre flop. You were still a fav post flop, so you'll win the vast majority of those.

That is painful.... I can sympathize. I was in the 7:30 $75 on FT the other night. I was near the bubble w/ average stack. I had a 2x UTG raise, a push all in (slightly more chips then me), and I'm 2 off the button with AA... GREAT, right? I push, original raiser folds, and re-raiser calls. He turns over 77. Flop is: A-9-5 Turn is a 6 River is an 8 Runner, runner double inside straight suck out... I almost through my brand new laptop through the wall

Looks to me like one bad beat, one marginal situation. Is it rigged is a perception vs. reality debate. Online, you play MANY more hands per hour then you will EVER play in a live game. As any good player knows, math plays a big role in poker. In the first scenario, bottom line is Aces get cracked. Pre flop, you were an 82% favorite... so, you'll win basically 8/10 times... 2/10 you won't. A player who limped made a questionable call pre flop, but hit his hand. Post flop, he was a 65% favorite. In