Online Poker rooms such as PokerStars, Full
Tilt Poker, Party Poker, Absolute, Ultimate Bet, Titan, Bodog,
and ALL others are guilty of a very dirty little
secret.
I'll try to keep this short and sweet and I
promise you that if you read carefully, you will NEVER want to
play online poker again without this knowledge.
The first online poker room came around in
1998 known as Planet Poker. Here it is 11 years later and with
all of the technological advances with computers, there is
still a very big problem.
Would you believe that the public sector
does NOT posess the ability to randomly shuffle a 52 card deck
of playing cards?
As of this update, October 25th, 2009 we
are just starting to see the emergence of 64 bit technology
with Windows 7... and XP 64 and Vista 64 both have launched as
well.
Even with 128 bit processing power (which
doesn't exist to the public yet), it is only possible to get
1/1 trillionth of 1% of the possible outcomes when it comes to
shuffling a 52 card deck.
This is because there are quadrillions of
quadrillions of possible outcomes from shuffling a deck of
cards.
So what does this mean? Is online poker
rigged?
Without some special programming it would
be very possible to determine (crack) the programs shuffling
outcomes.
Because the shuffling and possible hand
outcomes are limited, the programmers have had to come up with
some creative solutions. Unfortunately, these creative
solutions really do NOT have your best interests in mind.
It comes down to something called
"equitable distribution". This means that every player has a
fair chance to equally win an even number of pots. Sounds good
in theory but it also means that if you get too many good
starting hands in too short a period of time, the shuflling
porgram (algorithm) will FORCE your good hands like AA KK AKs
to flat out LOSE.
As a matter of fact, if you win too many
pots in a short amount of hands in online poker, your future
"decent" starting hands will ALSO be forced to LOSE as well.
How many times do you get in a hand with a
decent pocket pair like TT and some ***HOLE calls your raise
with 93s and proceeds to mop the floor with you?
Have you ever seen multiple 4 of a kinds, a
royal flush, and a straight flush within one hour of playing?
I have.
A recent study of 250,000 hand histories
from a "I won't say which one" online poker room, found that
flushes occurred 50% more than they should have and full
houses occurred 35% more than they should have.
In fact, if you had not witnessed these bad
beats with their frequency, you would not have done a search
to find this website in the first place.
The algorithms do some nasty things. They
match up good starting hands more frequently. This makes the
game seem more fun, FORCES ACTION, and of course gives every
player the adrenelin boost we all enjoy.
They then divy up winning hands based on
each players win percenatges which means more rake and more
porfits.
This bugs me so much , and it is why wrote
a book about it.
And for those ding nobs that say "well,
that's poker" I say they are ingorant fools. Yes, poker has
suckouts, yes poker has bad beats, yes poker has some
frequency of luck, yes, poker is 5 times faster online than in
real life meaning you see 5 times the action, BUT being forced
to lose hands because you won too many is outright bull****.
Poker is hard enough as it is. You have to
know your players, know their tendencies, know the math, odds,
expected value, etc. etc..
Yes, you can track your play and improve
your game and finally become profitable. If you have the
tenacity for tracking the wins and losses, you can do really
well in online poker!
