Do you think online poker sites are rigged for action?

[tsrumler]

I wanted to start this topic to get opinions from the other people who might play online on here. I have seen countless hands online (too many to count,) where it seems both players or all 3-5 people in the hand hit something on the flop. On person has trips, the other has a boat, and someone else has a flush. I mean, it happened so many times one day it was just completely ridiculous. I know that this is possible in real life and that is obvious. I just ask this because, from personal expierience I have seen it happen all too often. The people I play with live at the home game also believe this. I also have a buddy from work that think something is up as well. I have seen so many times where people will get all in or deep into a pot pre flop where they raised and some moron online calls them down with ace little and it hits. It seems like aces are almost golden online.

Your thoughts?

[bigmike667]

I definitly agree about online poker. Its full of action and bad beads in my opinion. I see a lot of people with in on the game and hit on the cards on the turn or the river. I say bad beats because I usually see, lets say someone with pocket aces or even pocket kings call all in, and then all of a sudden too lose to a guy that pulls it off on the river card. I totally agree with you! thats why I prefer playing in person more rather than online.

[Steve-O]

NO! the rake is capped at a certain point in the pot, so what would be the use of exceeding the cap 3 fold??? The max rake is usually $3 online, so why create action flops that create $300 pots when it's capped at $60?

[tsrumler]

I wasnt really talking about cash games, sorry. I should of made that more clear. I believe they are in Sit and go's, and tournies, because once your out, your paying that next tourny fee. Thats what I meant and I should of been more clear. I still and will always believe that online poker is rigged for action!

I also talk to alot of live players, and we will get to the discussion of online play. I ask them how they did. Almost every single person tells me they made a gold mine on online play. So I think to myself, whey the hell don't you play anymore, and I ask them that! They tell me, "oh, I am and was getting sick of the bad beats." Tell me if that isnt bs.

[davidab157]

rigging it for tournies makes no sense whatsoever.

And the reason you see more bad beats online is because on average you are playing 10-15x as many hands /hr as live so you should see 10-15x as many bad beats.

Easy way to prove it, get a sample of millions and millions of hands and analyse how the equities compare to the actual results. Simple stats test.