Re: Technology
Originally Posted by
galty
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This was the only site to have been affected by this sort con. not like you inferred that all the sites do this.
That's a terribly naïve statement Galty and of course you have no evidence to back up the claim that only one site is affected. What the data shows is that only one site has been
caught red handed via use of Admin accounts.
It's like saying that people don't generally embezzle pension funds because you've only heard of Robert Maxwell being caught. A total nonsense.
The scandal highlights that software indisputably
does have "admin modes" and/or back doors and you'd be terribly stupid to believe that no other software has such.
Originally Posted by
galty
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The was one other site that was a con that was Full Tilt poker.
Yep. The Feds actually busted 3 sites, Full-Tilt, Pokerstars and another on what was deemed back then as "Black Friday". They shut down for a period whilst the Feds did their thing, which of course was nothing to do with corrupt behaviour but the fact that all this online gaming was taking money out of the US and the governments weren't getting a bean in tax. They obviously wanted a slice of the action. So, short smack on the wrists, show them who is boss and then suddenly the sites are back up and running. Money laundering, dodgy card outcomes, massive player collusion, use of bots, none of that an issue, just swept under the carpet.
Originally Posted by
galty
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No your just a losing poker player that needs to justify his incompedance.
Nope. Like I said. I studied this for a long time. Gathered many 1000s of hand histories, from different people, pumped them into Poker Tracker (the defacto analysis tool) and looked at the results. The figures were way off.
Unfortunately no matter how much of that kind of evidence one presents, the stooges will always cry "you need more samples , statistically irrelevant" etc.
For 2 years I investigated this stuff. Followed behaviours of players. Watched accounts that I believed to be Admin accounts. I posted about it many times on forums. I was even a moderator of a poker forum.
The game is simply not safe, not in the slightest. Quite aside from the blatantly obvious "rigged for action" card dealing, there are the unstoppable issues of player collusion, bots, screen capture malware that shows other players your screen and a whole lot more. It's a massive $billion industry and no-one is going to challenge it any more than they are going to challenge the Italian Mafia.
Bottom line is therefore just to steer well clear.
I can see that like so many others you believe you have great poker skills and that skills count in online poker. Sadly they don't. Skills only count in genuine Bricks & Mortar poker rooms. 1000s of genuine players have openly testified that they can pawn real poker tables but that online poker is unbeatable.