Are Online Poker Sites rigged or not?

December 1, 2009 · Posted in Online poker rooms 

No matter which online poker sites you play poker at, there will be players who (for some reason or another) claim that the poker site they currently play on is rigged, biased or is cheating.

Oftentimes you will hear stories about online poker sites being rigged from players who have just had a nasty badbeat or are perhaps experiencing a bad downswing. This can best be described, if I just give you an example.

For instance, you are holding KK and at the same time someone has AA. Of course, in situation like this chips will be flying all over the table as both of you have monster hand are more than willing to commit whole stacks pre-flop.

But as soon as you see your opponents, you realise how big of an underdog you are. The only two cards that can save your ass from busting out are the 2 remaining Kings.

The chances of hitting one of the Kings by the river and winning the hand are therefore very slim. To be more specific, you have around 18 % chance of winning with KK when some else holds an AA.

But despite being in such a bad spot (or shape perhaps), in the long run you will still win 18 hands out of 100 when holding KK versus AA. Now lets say that the above mentioned situation is one of those 18 hands, which means you hit your King on the river and win the hand.

This makes a player with AA very upset as he just lost the best (pre-flop) hand possible and claims that the online poker site is rigged. Of course, we can not blame him for saying that as it really sucks to lose Aces against Kings, especially on the river.

Never the less, you must know that such badbeats happen. Not because online poker sites are rigged, but simply because the mathematics and probability in poker. Every poker player that plays either online or live poker on regular basis will sooner or later came across situations like that.

You are bound to come across situations where your Aces will lose against Kings, if you play poker. That is just part of the game. So do not let it get to you, when it happens. Just get back on your horse and keep on grinding because in the long run you will still have big profit from hands like AA.

In case you are interested in how online poker sites take care of NOT being rigged, well, they do it by using software with so called Random Number Generators and Pseudo-Random Number Generators. Visit this poker blog for more information on the above generators.

Of course, there can still be online poker rooms out there who actually are rigged, but I believe they will get caught sooner or later. Therefore, do not worry whether the online poker room you play at is rigged or not.

Instead, rather focus your attention on the poker game itself and learn from the mistakes you make!

Good luck at the tables and do not let the badbeats and downswings get the best of you. Until next time, have fun and good luck at the tables!

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  • kazoo37
    I say several are rigged not due to any of the 'theories' stated above. With clarity I say this because I watch many hands daily where the person with the largest stack wins above 80% of their hands reguardless of thier hole cards. For example one hand had 4 all ins just today. The cards were 1)AK, 2)A,Js 3) A,10o and 4th (the large stack) 3,6o. There was all low cards on the streets other than one J. GUESS WHAT the Large stack got FH 6's over threes. VERY NEXT HAND there are three callers for an all in. 1) AA 2)AK and the high stack again with 2,9. GUESS WHAT AGAIN the 2,9 wins with nothing hitting the board and gets yet another FH with BOTH hole cards. I see this repeatedly daily and have taken advantage of it myself. WITH THE HIGH STACK I win 'all in's' a huge majority of the time regardless of an insane push with NOTHING.
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