In live play, I was once dealt pocket aces 3 times in a row. Needless to say I won a lot the last time.
Figuring out online poker
By BubbRubbJun 03, 08 11:19 PM
Theoretically, a person in a casino could win every single hand he was dealt in a tournament because the cards are shuffled by hand and true probability is involved…obviously the odds of this happening, of course, would be in the 1 in several billions, but nevertheless, it can theoretically happen. There is always a chance.
As I have noticed with most online poker sites, however, it is EXTREMELY rare that a one person legitimately is dealt more than 3 winning hands in a row (besides pushing and stealing with blinds…I’m talking about cards that provide winning hands, here). While online poker sites claim to have random hand generators, the algorithms used to create these generators are obviously made to let the players of the whole table each have a couple of winning hands, and the pot sizes are out of the generator’s control. If you were sitting at a table and one person seemed to always hit the nuts, it simply MUST be a glitch in the system. Think about it…Having card generators that are TRULY random (as random as thoroughly shuffling by hand) would be bad business. People winning hands and tournaments over and over again would prove that the site is absolutely NOT random, and less people would pay to play.
Therefore, in attempting to prove a card site is random, algorithms are used to prevent the same person from winning multiple hands and tournaments back to back…but this is simply a form of controlling the winners of the site, which in turn proves that the site is NOT random at all to begin with.
I hate online poker because it gives one the false sense of playing in a casino where the cards dealt are truly random. It is entirely obvious that all online poker is controlled, and while some hands MAY be random according to their “card generators”, there is a part of the system that makes sure players do not win hands and tournaments back to back, or at least on a daily basis.
My case was proved perfectly today. Online poker is all high-highs and low-lows. There is rarely a happy-medium. Yesterday I did well in the tournaments I played in, winning one and coming close to final- tabling the other. But in the one tournament I played today, my aces were cracked by nines and my jacks were cracked by K7, all-ins preflop. I got the hands, but they would not hold. My argument is the system was making sure I did not have as much success as I did yesterday. Mission accomplished. Online poker everywhere is not real poker, this site included, and while some skill is involved to winning tournaments online, there were not at least three or four points in the tournament where the winner got extremely lucky. The same thing may and may not be said about tournaments in real life. Hence the drama and conflict about playing poker online…
bogolyubovo
BUBB--Same thing is happening to me but its because I've seen, so many callers are in the hand --people treat this site like a free roll --its incredible !
Just play tighter andf value- bet your great hands !
Jon