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Still find the whole reasoning for rigging their RNG hard to swallow, must be quite a large number of people that would return to fulltilt if they had another trusted third party audit and assessed their RNG, maybe a we could put together a pertition. It sucks cos my bankrolls gettin quite hefty and FT seems the only place to move up in the game.
To talk strategy, do you think 9-tabling was partly a factor in your loss in 50k hands? Because what was ABC poker 10 years ago isnt the same ABC as today, the latest poker books are making the old books obsilete. One major difference I saw on FT last time I played was the small ball,passive-aggressive style most of the players employ. Yes, there's alot of donkeys moving in with Qhigh only to spike it on the river, its $5, but I wonder whether theres a reason your strategy doesn't balance on this site. The problem with playing 9 tables against alot of passive-aggressive players is ABC poker will be torn apart(or break even, minus rake) by reverse-implied odds. Just to clarify, reverse implied odds are when your coninuation in the pot will either win a small pot or lose a huge pot. Here's an example:
Nl cash 2c/5c, you raise AK to 15c, button calls everyone folds. Flop come down A 3 10, you raise 22c, opponent calls. Turn is a 9. You raise 50c, opponent calls. River is a 4. You bet 50c, opponent reraises to $1.80, you call. Opponent shows 910 and takes $5.41
Now to break this down, we'll assume your opponent will fold if misses on the turn. His outs are about 17% with one draw.This means when you:
WIN
0.83 x 22c = +18.26c
LOSE
0.17 x -255c = -43.35c
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EV = -25.09c
At a single 50c/$1 table, for a good player this river bet should be an easy fold. You would think 'this players only been showing down atleast 2pair, TPTK doesn't look so big by the river, and I dont want to make a huge mistake' muck. But I defy anyone playing 9 tables of $5 to make this fold, everyone may say they would, but realisticly, your gonna look them up in the assumption that these inexperienced players are playing too many weak hands and bluffing too much. In a SNG, you probably would have +EV playing this hand because his implied odds are worsened by the short stack, but in 100BB cash games, the advantage is with your opponent.
We aren't gonna know if FT is rigges, but if i had to put my money on what's going on, I'd bet that alot of players are getting in situations like this in small stake games, and not realising that there strategy is a dog to this sites style and rake. The fact is, I used to write on forums saying that pokerstars was rigged, I didn't know how to really evaluate hands, and just assumed that I was getting really unlucky, could have sworn I was a favourite, but looking back, I had some leaks in my game when I shifted my roll from soft Pacific to tough stars and FT games. Today I swear by the site, but leaves me wondering whether these conspiracy theory's are just bollox.
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