I think we are talking about the odds of each hand on show down, not the likelyness of all hitting pocket pairs on PKR - that matter has been caned to death. It doesn't suprise me one bit on PKR - I don't really play there much any more.
One thing I'm will definately agree on, after playing other sites though is you are MASSIVELY more likely to see that kind of round on PKR simply and purely because people call with everything and anything.
Picture this - in a "normal" game elsewhere, with "normal" players, you probably would not have seen the guy with 33 or 22 call all-in if the AA guys went 1st - particularly if they were in early positions. A good player with QQ might well fold too if he didn't want to enter a race and was thinking about tournament survival.
I'm in no way suggesting what they should have done in that hand, what I'm saying, is on other sites, people lay down pockets - on PKR people go all-in on any pair, Ace rags, you name it, so you are going to see a HUGE amount of pockets vs pockets compared to a more "sane" poker site.
And on televised games, you mostly only see "interesting" hands. They don't show all the hands where everyone checks/folds to a raise. So you miss a lot of low pairs being folded.
I really am starting to understand that PKR may well not be "broken" but it's the general players that are. Hence you see so much crazy action.
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