It's not just FTP with bots and workers stealing money from innocent people.
It's EVERY online website.
You can play perfect, make every single right move, and yet, lose an inordinate amount of money on HUGE suckouts! This has happened to me on numerous occasions, on numerous sites.
So many times, somebody will hit a one-outer against me on the river, when I've gone all in on the flop. Why that person is even in the hand, to see the river, at that point is beyond me.
So why do we keep playing? Probably because most of us really enjoy the game of poker, and not many of us have a casino close to us.
I also agree with the person above who mentioned, that they were sick of winning a bunch of small pots, only to lose one ridiculousy big one, to put them right back where we started.
I have NO DOUBT, that online poker sites have bots, and employees stealing money from innocent people. The only way that will ever stop, is if people just quit playing online poker, or if all those poker sites are shut down.
I usually play on WSEX, as shitty as that site is, at least it gives you the rake back, at the end of the week. But today I cashed out all of my remaining funds. I built my bankroll up to $300 (starting from $14, after i cashed out a Kyle Busch, NASCARS future). I hadn't played poker at that site in a long time. I've bet on horses, Basketball etc, but hadn't played in the poker room in a long time.
At 1st, I got great cards, and rarely took a bad beat. My aces held up against hands like AK, AQ, JJ etc. If I was a 4:1 favorite. 80% of the time my hand held up. Needless to say, once I got to a certain point, the cards started going against me, EVERY time. I'd have runs where I wouldn't see a face card for dozens of hands at a time. In one stretch I had a 2 or 3 in my hand 13 hands in a row. The last 47 pocket pairs I had, I failed to hit a set. And the odds of hitting a set are 1:6.
Of course, that's not all that happened. The bad beats started to happen incredibly frequently. AA losing to A10. KK losing to A9. My str8's losing to bigger straights, My full houses, losing to bigger full houses etc.
Earlier today, playing on a 100PL Omaha H/L split. I was dealt A99K (Double suited) I raised the pot preflop and had 3 callers (out of 6 players, and I play extremely tight) The flop came 998. Now of course, I have to play this slow. I'm 1st to act so I min bet. I have 2 callers and then the last to act raises the pot. I'm thinking to myself (yes this is what I want) So I min raise the guy back hoping someone else is on a draw and will come along . I get a call, and then, the last player reraises me the pot (which is about $70 at this point). I obviously move all-in (for my last $87) the other guy drops out, now of course I'm thinking this guy has 8's full of nines. The cards are turned over and he has 10 10 A 4 Turn is a 10, River, you guessed it, 10.
Now if this doesn't reek of BS I don't know what does. What posesses someone to raise the pot twice (in omaha no less) when he has no draw and an over pair, to a pair on the board, when someone has raised pre flop and reraised after slow playing the flop? Are you telling me this guy didn't know he was going to hit quad 10's?
That's the last straw for me. I can accept bad beats, I know it's part of poker. But when these kinds of things happen, on a regular basis, it's not even fun anymore. All online poker sites are the same, they'll give you only so much, before they decide it's time to take it away.
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