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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Is Online Poker Rigged? - Why Is Everyone Saying Online Poker Is Rigged?

By Alex Bannon


If you have been playing online poker for any amount time the thought 'Is Online Poker Rigged?' has probably passed through your mind. Why is everyone saying that it is?

There are a lot of online poker players who claim that online poker is rigged or fixed. This is because the programs and algorithms that run the online casinos are not understood very well by the layman. Online poker being rigged for him means that the game is manipulated in such a way that no matter what the situation is, he loses.

The question that arises here is why they claim poker online to be rigged? There can be several reasons for this, some of which I'll delve into in this article.

The first among them may be that the losers are the ones who claim that online poker is rigged. Online poker is a different ball game altogether. It is not like going to your casino to have a hand of poker. In the casinos you might be surrounded by softer players but in poker online that is not the case.

Generally people consider themselves better players than they actually are thus; when they play online they are not able to confront the truth as a result they generally find out ways to blame the game.

Another reason might be that the game is actually controlled by programmed bots and people have spend their precious time and money in analyzing the games and then finding out the certain pattern that is generated.

If you have been playing poker online for any amount of time you have surely seen these offers of buying a programmed bot that plays poker online for you and just 'makes money while you sleep'. There is some argument that these bots fill the poker online rooms and are effecting the outcomes of the game, effectively meaning it is rigged.

But to a good player, this shouldn't be an issue. Your profits will only be affected if you are playing sub-standard poker.

The point is, most of the people that say online poker is rigged are the ones that are losing from it. Whether they think they have a bad bead, that the algorithms are wrong, or that programmed bots are making things unfair, the fact of the matter is millions of players profit from online poker.

If you know how to play poker online properly you won't have any problems.




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