Re: Technology
Originally Posted by
galty
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4 days ago lost internet connection when playing poker for a lot of money.
Not the core topic of your thread but I would
strongly urge you to be careful with online poker. It is corrupt and crooked to the core and in no way safe to play. You WILL lose a ton of money I guarantee it. The specific site doesn't matter TBH. They are all raking in the profits through the same means. Player collusion is rife and site security does little to combat it, you WILL always get a "honeymoon" period when you first register with any site, where you get to win well for the first few days before it all then goes against you.
I played for about a year, quite some time ago and learned the hard way. I then downloaded many 1000s of hand histories, both my own and those of others and pumped them through analysis tools. I didn't like the stats it produced but equally could see that when considering the legitimacy of random number distribution you need gazillions of hand histories of similar situations to gain any real evidence.
Online, people are ganging together using multiple accounts and sharing their cards with each other as they play. Some players are just computer bots which can assess playing odds in a fraction of a second. If a person can get 2 or more bots on the same table, those bots can share their details and have a huge advantage.
Bots and computers can of course analyse your entire history of hands played and determine from that your playing ranges, what hands you will raise with, what hands you will ditch and so on. Armed with that data they can outplay you easily.
All in all it is a total mugs game. The myths of "hard core" players grifting away 24x7 making good money is just that, a myth. Once they start winning the system fights back and takes any profits back.
ALL online gaming is sadly similarly afflicted. One poker site was busted some years ago when one of its employees was discovered using an Admin account in which he could see everyone's cards. The player was dumb and just exploited his advantage and was thus caught. Had he been more careful he would doubtless have gone unnoticed. Despite this ACTUAL event, well recorded, poker sites the world over still insist that there are no Admin accounts that can see everyone's cards. Only a complete idiot would believe that.
When software is developed, it has to be tested, and you can't test poker software unless you can see all the cards and thus check that the system is doing the right thing. So very plainly there exists a way to do that.
In short, online poker is unsafe in a great many different ways and anyone who participates WILL lose money.
I realise that is a pain. I loved playing the game online. I would still like to play it online but it is impossible, except to play for pretend chips with no money involved, and frankly, that makes the game pointless.
GL either way.