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I am 18 years old and have been playing poker since I was 16. In both online and in brick and mortar games. (I know it was illegal for me to do so but even Phil Ivey attained a fake ID for it when he first started playing) I used to think online poker was rigged but as I have grown as a poker player I have changed my mind. I'm not going to say people who think online poker is rigged are idiots I'm just going to say that you should think this through. The reason there are so many seemingly amazing suck outs, inexplicable calls, and pockets Aces getting cracked by 8,9 off is because of the amount of morons that play online. Think about it, in heads up play Aces hold up about 85% of the time. Say you had pockets Aces and you raised from first position and you get 4 callers with garbage hands as is common in most online poker rooms. The larger the room the more common. Anyway, there are 4 callers. That right there makes your Aces only hold up about 56% of the time greatly diminishing their value. Now you've got 4 idiots that can beat you with two pair, straights, sets, or flushes. That's going to happen a lot more often than your Aces holding up against that many cards left in the deck. They have way more outs than you do. The odds are about 11.5 to 1 that you're going to hit an Ace and they have much more outs than you. Now this scenario does not happen to pro poker players playing with pro poker players because pros aren't going to call a raise from first position with shitty cards. If you had one person call your raise that makes your aces much more valuable and the possibility of somebody sucking out is much less. But bad beats happen to pros all the time. Check out he video of Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu playing on high stakes poker. But you don't see them playing garbage hands all the time. I guarantee that if a bunch of idiots played with the pros they would be sucking out left and right. Many people on the internet do not understand poker at all and that means that luck plays a much heavier roll. And besides even that most of you don't remember many of your huge pots. You remember your bad beats. It's human nature. Doyle Brunson talked about this I believe. All in all I believe online poker seems rigged because of how many people with garbage stay in the pot no matter what. They're not thinking and therefore it seems that the place is rigged because your good cards get beat by bad cards. Odds only apply when people are actually paying attention to the game. Otherwise, it's just like dice.
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