
puzzlefish
Legend
Loyaler
I've been seeing something lately that really bothers me about the RNG of several sites. I won't name them but anyone who plays with me knows which sites I am frequenting.
This is what I am seeing over and over and over: a particular player wins a given hand on showdown and then 3 turns later, it is usually the player to this person's left who gets a good hand and wins.
I'm obviously not the first to know this because there are many players who play speculative hands out of position to exploit this RNG feature. I've tracked it down to almost every single time I got knocked out of a tournament with a strong hand. It is usually because the villain player is in the position as described above (left of the winner three hands go), is coming along with a speculative hand and getting their miracle board.
For a while I was thinking that maybe I could somehow use this to my advantage but somehow a lot of other players are already doing this. It just comes down to avoiding playing against a "primed" player and playing when you are the "primed" player. When your rightmost neighbour isn't winning anything, it becomes difficult to get anywhere in a tournament.
So I am putting this out there for everyone to see. Do your own tests and see for yourself if your site is using the same type of RNG that does this. I haven't checked poker stars recently but it could very well be the same there.
There may be another similar effect with the positioning of players relative to one another after one full orbit around the table, but it is a bit less obvious.
This is what I am seeing over and over and over: a particular player wins a given hand on showdown and then 3 turns later, it is usually the player to this person's left who gets a good hand and wins.
I'm obviously not the first to know this because there are many players who play speculative hands out of position to exploit this RNG feature. I've tracked it down to almost every single time I got knocked out of a tournament with a strong hand. It is usually because the villain player is in the position as described above (left of the winner three hands go), is coming along with a speculative hand and getting their miracle board.
For a while I was thinking that maybe I could somehow use this to my advantage but somehow a lot of other players are already doing this. It just comes down to avoiding playing against a "primed" player and playing when you are the "primed" player. When your rightmost neighbour isn't winning anything, it becomes difficult to get anywhere in a tournament.
So I am putting this out there for everyone to see. Do your own tests and see for yourself if your site is using the same type of RNG that does this. I haven't checked poker stars recently but it could very well be the same there.
There may be another similar effect with the positioning of players relative to one another after one full orbit around the table, but it is a bit less obvious.