To jlwallnutz: First point – You said you’ve been playing 26 months, and what, that makes your opinion better and more believable than anyone else’s? I’ve been playing for years and so you’ll forgive me if I trust my own experiences over yours.Second point –Here’s the correlation between PP possibly rigging the games and Enron (and stay with me here, cause this is where it gets tricky) – both are (were) making tons of money, and no one knew they were on the take until it was too late. People like you think “why in the world would they be cheating, they make more than enough money,” yet it happens everyday. There is no such thing as “enough” money. It’s called greed and human nature. Your statement about gambling being an addiction and all it takes is one large win for people to keep coming back again and again, lends credibility to what some people on this site have said about their games going downhill after their cash-outs. And no, I don’t cry foul at the casino when I get dealt a bad beat, and that’s due to a number of reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that I can see the cards being dealt and I can see the other players at the table and know they’re real people and not some programming code built in to take my money.As for them not needing to because they make so much money just like real casinos, we’re talking about poker. The house only makes money off of the rake, buy-ins for tourneys and interest on your money that is sitting in their account. At a live casino, they have BJ, craps, slots, etc. That’s where they make their killing. Look online or talk to a casino host and ask where the majority of their money comes from and they’ll tell you it’s the slots. These games all have a very high house advantage, and THAT’s why the casinos offer them and that’s where they make their money. Ask them what they make off of their poker games, and they’ll laugh. If poker was soooooo profitable for the real casinos, they would have 90% of their floor space dedicated to poker tables. But they don’t, do they? They have a little corner room with 20 odd tables in it. Why is that? It’s because poker is not a profitable game for the casinos. More and more they are offering more games cause the demand is so high right now, but that’s all they’ll ever do cause there are lots more games out there that are more profitable and that have a house advantage. But an online site where no one knows what is going on and would never think to question the fairness or randomness of the games? That could be very profitable indeed. Casinos have to pay employees to deal the hands, bring drinks, floor people to watch the games and deal with disputes, security people, etc. etc. etc. And what does an online site have? A program code and some people to deposit money in the bank.I don’t know if you think your stats on your third point are impressive, but I won more than that over the course of a five day tournament spree in October, at a live casino, so it’s not particularly impressive to me.“Why would they rig the game?” My answer is, and always will be, when that question is asked - because they can. Whether or not they do is still to be seen, but they can. Period. If you’ve never experienced anything you think is shady, more power to you. But I won’t play at a site I’m not comfortable with, and will continue to play in live games where I can see what’s going on.As some people have discussed above, I’d just like to add my own version to why PP would reward bad players: good players will make money and cash out, taking money out of the system. Poor players will win just enough to stay even or a little above, and not take their money out of the system. PP works just like a bank in that every second they have your money, they are making money off of it. But why would they do that? I can’t fathom.