Internet Sites Fixed???

[NIGWAFC]

Okay, having played on the tables for a number of months now, Im now becoming extremely suspicious of the hands that are being dealt. Maybe its just my pessimistic nature, but Ive experienced a lot of 'strange' results recently. Just to explain, I play on the min/max tables and started with the 25/50p - and did extremely well in the beginning - being dealt extremely good hands on more occasions than not and was up every day for about 2 weeks. Then for about the next 4 weeks things took a turn for the worse and it all went sour. Having gained a bit of experience on the lower tables I decided to chance a go on the higher tables, the $1,$2 tables - and low and behold for the first 2 weeks did extremely well. However again now, the tide has turned, and even though I take a somewhat cautious approach, even when being dealt decent cards, the resulting flops beggar belief. Another note is that whenever someone appears to be on their last legs, they more often than not come up trumps even though they'll start with naff all. Okay I may be on a bad run you may say, but its just that the sequence of cards that appear - being dealt a run on the flop only to get done by a flush - not once but 4 times in approx 60 mins play seems awfully odd. So the question is, am I being paranoid, or do other folk reckon there may well be a stitch of some sort on these sites? It'd surely be very easy for them to ensure you win to start off with, to get you hooked, and then to drain you. Also is it restricted to certain sites - or some better than others, ie more honest? How do these sites ensure that the cards dealt are completely random?? Or maybe its just that Im playing at the completey wrong tables and am having a torrid bit of luck. Anyway rant over - just want to get it off my chest and see if any other folk think the same. Oh and I wont mention the site in question - yet. Would be interesting to see if others come up with the same site first.

[Valiant23]

Re: Internet Sites Fixed??? NIGWAFC. You never hear a winning poker player complaining that the site is fixed.;) Personally, I prefer to play STT's and MTT's to ring games, and on one site recently the lowest tables available were $5. I was playing these reluctantly, bacause I was concerned I'd be over my head but I was turning a profit from them. Anyway the site made $3 tables available, so I switched to them and haven't made it to the money once. Now I'm reluctant to use another players bad beat as an example, but I'm sure he knows it was bad play and posted it in frustration. http://www.punterslounge.com/forum/showthread.php?p=308455#post308455 Now to me, it seems obvious that someone must have AK, or that there is a chance of it. The good play would have been to get away from that hand and play the next one, especially as hayward said the other guy was hitting hands for fun. What I think happens is that we have a period of success through good play, then we begin to relax and start to believe we are good players and subconsciously play hands that we wouldn't touch before, in the belief that we are good enough not to need cards. So there are 2 things you can do, believe what you said in the post above (not that you do I'm sure), or readjust your play and tighten up. Someone has already said in the bad beat thread, if you don't have the absolute nuts there is a chance you can lose. Obvious, but we forget. Chin up mate.:ok