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Let me first state that I'm a decent player, not a great player but a decent one. At most sites, if I am playing to my ability, it's normal for me to place fairly deep in most NLH tournaments and when it comes to sit and gos I usually win, or at the very least, make the final 3 at about half the tables I play.
Years ago I left Riverstars after an experience at a table which utterly convinced me that something is not kosher at this site...I watched the same two players dealt every winning hand for Literally hours, I kid you not, no other player who arrived at this table won a single hand...I kept playing because I was dumbstruck with sheer disbelief at how blatant the pattern was. I eventually asked the two players who were being favored if it didn't concern them that PS's RNG was obviously something much less than random but they contributed nothing to the conversation beyond gales of laughter...they didn't appear concerned that next time they might not be sitting in the golden seat. The pattern at this table was one I'd noticed for some time but which was finally far too obvious for me to again talk myself into believing I was possibly becoming paranoid.
Out of curiosity I returned to PS's a few days ago and have played the NAPL's Freeroll Shootout SNGs since (because I'll be damned before I deposit)...to make a long story short I have since been playing the very same SNG over and over watching the very same thing happen ad nauseum...this shootout is basically a 36 person tourney, that I can't win once, in fact I haven't even made final table in all but two instances, after 3 days of play is Beyond highly suspect. When I take into account the sheer volume of ridiculous beats that each table's 'golden child' inflicts I suppose I shouldn't be surprised...despite the fact that, in nearly every case I got my chips in with the best hand I was beaten by the worst, time and time again...and now after probably 50+ attempts I have come up for air after my latest pp was bested by said golden child's aces (as I exited I watched when, in the very next hand, the same player felted another, this time with quad aces).
Now, I'm not here bitching about bad beats, I do realize and accept that beats are an everyday fact of life when it comes to poker...what I can't seem to wrap my brain around is that so few people seem to notice that at every table one or two people are winning 80+% of the pots, it is always one or two people per table dealt either the monster hand, or that miracle river....and anyone who dares to mention the disparity, that which would seem to be glaringly obvious to even someone with half a functioning brain cell are deemed "rigtards"...call me a rigtard, but you will never convince me that it is a natural distribution when you see 20% of the players catching 80% of the winning cards at virtually every 10 person table you play.
I'm not claiming that Pokerstars is out to get anyone, in fact whatever is happening seems random...but something is at work within PS's RNG which evens the playing field and frankly, considering that 80% of online poker revenue is made from new players, from a multi billion dollar business standpoint, I can easily think of a very sound reason they might choose to do so. The most mystifying aspect of this situation to me is that more people haven't noticed and that complaints aren't pouring in en mass.
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