Do you think online poker is rigged?

[Coltron]

Hi guys, like to see what people think on this one. You hear arguements for this about how certain sites have played around with there RNG so it gives out more big hands etc. I didn't give this much time but over the last few days when I finally got some time to clock up a few hours I was left scratting my head. I played on the Cryto server before but have since been playing on the Paddy Power/VC/BluesSQ/GoldenNugget one, which is where I was at work over the last couple of days. Here are some examples, Playing in 5c/10c cash games, 6 and 9 handed; I lost to Four Aces twice in the space of a couple of hours on sat, My nutfull house lost to a straight flush, There was another straight flush again two hours later, 6 handed, One afternoon it seemed everytime I got a pair I would hit a set on the flop this included, Kings twice, Aces once, Jacks onces (lost to a set of Qs also on flop), Tens once, 77s and 88s, I aint complaining here just saying. It is strange didnt think it was so bad on Betfair. There was also alot of other situation, like a guy keep raising me, I assumed he had it, when I finally did see one of his hands he flopped a straigh and did so again 15min later. On another occasion I had 84o in the SB, flop comes 854 rainbow, as it turned out BB had 84 also and UTG had 85.... I could go on all day here but you get my point. I would seem to be naive to dismiss it out of hand especially with the money that is at stake, or do you not mind aslong as your making a profit? Thats the stance Im at at the minute, although not making to much :lol . Saw a tread on Cardplayer too about this, one guy reckoned Party Poker was the worst for it, so where do you guys stand?

[slapdash]

Re: Do you think online poker is rigged? No, I doubt very much that it's rigged. It's in the nature of human beings that we notice when things are out of the ordinary. So when you play a session where there are a lot of big hands, you tend to remember that and forget the dozens of sessions where the hands are boring and normal. Another point is that incidents that are a thousand to one chances (four aces twice in a couple of hours, making trips several times, lots of straight made on the river, lots of flushes, etc., etc.) are actually quite common. There are hundreds of such incidents, so it's not so unlikely that one of them will occur. Of course, it's possible that an online poker site could rig the random number generator like this, but it's hard to see that they have much to gain. It's a very complicated thing to do, and although they might make a bit more money by increased rakes, they have a huge amount to lose if they get found out (e.g., by a disgruntled employee grassing on them). One thing I'd like to know is why people are so hung up about what happens on the river. Several times I've been in an all-in situation where I have the better hand, say AJ against K10. He flops a king, and I beat him with an ace on the river. Then he moans about how he's been "rivered", forgetting his luck in flopping the king. Why do people pay more attention to the luck you get on the river than the luck you get on the flop or on the turn? Or in your pocket cards? Whenever I beat pocket aces and my opponent complains about my luck, I'm always tempted to say "Well, you were a lucky bugger to be dealt pocket aces!"