You've seen a player who barely played on PS just win a Sunday Million MTT. Can you honestly tell me, after playing as long as you have on PS (your stats say since 2020), that you haven't used sharkscope on many other players and found disparities in how well someone runs compared to how long they have played?
There are still sites, that accept US players. One of them is ACR Poker, where at least half the player pool is americans. I just played a session there this morning and ended up around +$50. They have both traditional single table SnGs and On-Demand SnGs, both with decent activity in the american time zone peak hours. So if you are such a SnG crusher, why dont you play on ACR Poker instead of wasting your time on "rigged" play money games? Finally I assume, you are aware, that it was pokerstars, who bailed you out, when Full Tilt did not have the money deposited by players?
So everyone's PokerStars graphs should shoot upwards at the very beginning. if this were true. We can empirically look at this over a large sample size, right?
It would depend on what games they play, right? They wouldn't be running good on every single game and they can't be winning every single hand that they play.
I already told you from a different thread that I did join ACR, and promptly got a virus from it on my laptop.
I am aware of it based on my own experiences with sun running on PS when I first started playing (but not as well as you) and with my experiences playing against others, where I plug their names into Sharkscope as I play just to see who I am up against. More often than not, there were accounts that were made within the past month or so that were getting incredibly lucky on the tables that I shared with them. And no, not just in hands against me.
Why not? Why would a site pay up for multiple RNG? They would use the same one across the board.So you are suggesting, that PokerStars has rigged its play money games? Ok then
Personally, whenever I see a new account I'm immediately suspicious of it but more so for concern of a bot or some type of cheater than the site rigging the game in favor of it. So we share a skepticism on new players - Even if it's for different reasons. lol.
I would imagine people have and do go through this type of data. Earlier ITT you mentioned not having a large enough sample size but people data mine and have access to millions of hands so it's not as if no one is looking.
You don't have to look for unfairness in the deal to notice these things. They just run good, regardless of how they play. So you're saying you look up players when they play well or when they play poorly?
The most popular version. that they do this so that recreational players do not quickly lose their money and continue to play, generating rake. I think that as competition grows, the poker rooms that will survive will be the ones that give up this, because more and more attention is being paid to it.
Sounds like you're not running very well, tbh.
I read this a lot but there's never anything actually published showing that any of what we are talking about has been looked at. The closest I have is maybe ACR's RNG having been tested with some weird battery of tests (Marsaglia's "diehard" tests) that demonstrate randomness. It's on their RNG certificate.
Thats very unlucky, since it has not happened to anyone else, or at least none that have shared it to this forum for several years. Of course you could just clean out the virus and then start playing. Or maybe the real story is, you did not like the software? And sure its not as good as that of the major sites. It has been updated a few times though, so if your first download was in 2011, you could try again now.
Maybe because there was more high stakes action? Some were also among the owners of the site.
Really? What were those scandals, and where can we read about them? Doug Polk has told, that he was cheated by someone, who had planted software on his computer, and that PokerStars refunded his losses after banning this player. So at least one person did apparently get something back from such an incidence.
Being new to a certain site is not the same as being new to poker in general. We dont know, who this person is, or their history on other sites. But maybe they started playing on GG Poker 4 years ago and is now a well established mid to high stakes player there. And then they just decided, that now it was time to try something else and got lucky right out of the gate.
what?
I'm not arguing about new accounts being new poker players. That's not it at all. I am arguing about new accounts frequently being lucky right out of the gate or, more specifically, unusually lucky for a short period of time right out of the gate.
Its pretty easy to look at random accounts on Sharkscope and verify, that not everyone started with a sunrun. This is my first account on 888 Poker, and it took 600 games, before I started winning anything significant. The account was closed by 888 in 2020, because it was under the danish license, and I now live in sweden. Of course one such example does not disprove a conspiracy theory, but the burden of proof is also on those, who claim, they are getting cheated, not the other way around.
I'm sure that, despite your stance on all of this, you realize how impossible of a task this is to get the right sample size, especially doing so manually by cherry picking from Sharkscope, and the right selection of players within that sample to make the proof statistically robust.
I think random as possible because it is a computer generating the numbers this is likely more random than a live deck in its randomness.
