(this is aimed at those that believe PKR is rigged)
Hi,
I've been playing online for around 4 years now. I've been a poker whore in that time, jumping from site to site, mostly after a bad beat.
I've played on Mansion, Pokerroom, Poker Stars, UK Poker, Titan, 888, Ladbrokes and of course PKR.
The common theme through most sites are the complaints about bad beats, rigged software etc.
C'mon folks! If you could play 10 home games in a night, seven nights a week i'm convinced that you would see some bizarre hands busting the odds.
The major difference is that your home game is unlikely to contain as many fish and donks as online play offers.
Bad Beats are exactly what they say on the tin.
Sometimes you're rockets will be busted by a straight on the river, the fact that your opponent was fishing all the way and was lucky enough to catch his card on the river is just the way it goes.
Chances are, they had no right to follow your bets.
But RIGGED!, that tends to be a losers argument. Get over your loss, re-adjust your play, look at your game, take a break.....whatever, but don't suggest that a site is rigged.
Alternatively, leave, head for another site, play long enough and you will observe others suffer the same fate.
Up your stakes, then you will observe less fish, players tend to be tighter. Generally i find the games are a lot more tactical.
PKR offers great play, yes there are fish by the hundreds, but they are your payroll. The 3D interaction offers a new dimension.
Lastly, get your head out of the sand and into some books. Learn your game, trust you intuition. Generally mine is rarely wrong and if nothing else when i lay down my 'monster' hand i know i'm still in the game, rather than just 'believing' that my hand should win purely because it has the odds.
You cannot account for others stupidity for following your structured betting and then them hitting on the river and clearing you out, that's Poker!
Rigged......my @rse!
