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I'm a little torn when it comes to this. I started with $50.00 on FullTilt about 3 months ago and have turned it into $900. So while I have had success on the site (mostly play $10.00 $20.00 Sit and Gos), I would be lying if I said there wasn't some degree of "rigging" on the site.
Sure, you play about 5 times the amount of hands in any hour then you would if you played at a casino. However, even with that said, I think I see more then 5 times the amount of bad beats in any given hour.
Take last weekend for an example... I had Ace King 15 times in 2 days. I won exactly twice with that hand the entire weekend and one of those times I pushed my opponent out early with my betting. Who knows what they would hae caught if I let them get past the flop!
However, while I do think the card/number generator at FullTilt is a little screwey, the one thing we should all keep in mind is there is no such thing as a random number generator. Patters will always develop! To be honest it would be impossible for FullTilt or any of the other poker sites to comit the fraud of rigging the site for the same reason it is pretty much impossible to pull any such large level fraud, there are too many people who would need to be involved. The truth would come out somewhere and the company would be exposed. Especially what has to be a billion dollar entity like fulltilt.
Again, I don't trust the site completely and have had my share of times where i questioned what happened, but overall, it's a pretty safe site. I guess the one thing I would advise players to do when it comes to online poker is don't try to "walk the dog" or slowplay strong hands. Save that for the Dominant a miracle would have to happen after the flop (2 outer or less) for you to lose. Don't know about you, but i'll flop 3 pair and every darn time I have a flush draw staring me straight in the face=)
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