Is Online Poker Rigged And How To Beat It By Using Rakeback
For quite a while now, many online Poker players have been complaining that online poker is rigged. By rigged, what they actually mean is that the cards dealt to online poker players, or dealt as communal cards aren’t actually random, as they’re supposed to be, but are in fact purposely dealt to favour a certain outcome. There are two main schools of thought in relation to this, which i’ll refer to as the rigged school and the juiced school.
The rigged school of thought is based on the theory that no matter what hole cards players are dealt, the communal cards will come to favour a specific player, and therefor make the said player win. If you speak to poker players who believe this theory and ask them why they think that a poker site would do this, they usually answer that they think the online poker sites give the poorer players help to stop them from loosing their money, in order to keep the maximum amount of people playing as possible, therefor earning more rake for the online poker site. If you then ask these people if they think that they are loosing money because of the cards being rigged, they generally answer no, but are consistantly breaking even. This is part of their theory. That in the long term, the online poker sites break everybody even, so the sites continue to make money from the rake, but the players don’t leave because they aren’t actually loosing, and are getting hours of entertainment. I suppose that this is a reasonable theory, even though nobody has any proof to support it.
The second theory, the juiced school of thought, is somewhat different. The proponents of this theory also believe that the cards dealt aren’t random, but for entirely different reasons.. They believe that the online poker sites programme the cards to give players strong hands far more often than the odds dictate that they should. The result of this is that more players holding strong hands means more people who think that they are winning, and therefor more people betting, which keeps the players more interested and earns the poker site more rake. The downside of this for good players though is that they make their money by betting when the odds are in their favour, but if the cards aren’t random then the odds mean nothing. For example, if you were to push all in with three of a kind and your opponent called with a flush draw, you know that two times out of five he’ll make a flush and win, but three times out of five you’ll win.
If the online poker site is juiced though, he’ll probably make a flush more often than he should, although you’ll probably even that up by making a full house more often than you should as well. The problem is though, a good player can no longer rely on betting the odds, so ends up breaking even over time. Again, this is just a theory, but one believed by many online poker players. Although alot of players believe these theories to be true, they still play poker and still make money. How do they do this? By signing up for rakeback! Some players play ten tables at a time for eight hours a day and only break even, but as they’re earning $4 per hour from each table in rakeback, they’re making $320 per day in rakeback proceeds without winning a cent at the tables, and best of all, the Rakeback is free, so they don’t have to do anything other than play their normal game to recieve it.
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