Is Pokerstars rigged?

Question

When i play the play money games, any 9person table i will get into the money. I get good cards, sometimes great cards, and ultimately i will win, or atleast place.

When I play cash games never get cards. For instance, today I played a $2.20 tounrney with about 600 people. I didnt play a hand becasue my cards were all so bad. I mean 7-2 off suite or 8-3 offsuite...these cards were horribe and it wasnt changing. I folded about 40 hands before I was **** out of money from the blinds increasing and finally went all in with jack 6 (one of 4 facecards that i got)

I dont deposit money and wont becasue of this.(they gave me 5 free dollars)

The first game that I played after getting the $5 i couldnt get a bad hand...I WAS SHOCKED. we were just laughing at these ridiculous hands that i was given.

I think its rigged, but that may just be me...Im only going to play playmoney online...Real money, i will go to a reallife tourney=)

Answer 1

A sample of one tournament tells you nothing about it being rigged, but the skill level in a $2.20 tourney is significantly higher than a play money tourney.

Answer 2

I'm not sure about pokerstars, but there has been a lot of speculation as to the security of online gambling sites.  If you type in "Absolute Poker Scandal" on google you can read all about the huge scandal with that site, which was traced all the way to the site's CEO who was using a demo account which could see all other player's whole cards, and was stealing thousands of dollars from people and then dumping it to his friends in cash games.  I play full tilt poker, and recently I have gotten the worst beats I've ever seen, and I've stopped playing because of it, I feel that the site is most definitely rigged.

Answer 3

I play PokerStars regularly, and I don't think it's rigged.  I've never deposited money, but won a dollar in a freeroll and have slowly and carefully built it to about $50.  I'm trying to build a $5000 bankroll from nothing like Chris Ferguson did at FT.  But I've had very slow periods in ring games, where every hand was 72, 83, 92, or something like that.  I played one tournament once where I didn't get an ace or a pocket pair for 114 hands!  But last week I got KK, followed by AA, followed by KK.  I track my hands, and over the long term it's pretty much exactly right.  Some nights the cards are just cold.  Some nights they're on fire.  It's not cheating or anything, it's just the luck of the draw.  If you look at it on a long enough time scale you'll realize that it all evens out.

Answer 4

how did you manage to get 5 free dollars?

Answer 5

Yes it depends

Answer 6

No its not rigged you just cant play.

Answer 7

track your hands. it's very possible to have a lot of bad hands. i just placed 4nd in a 45 player sng when i only won 4 hands. total.

the last time i played a ring game (when the sng's were suspended for service) i folded around 40 hands in a row. i finally lost patience and quit.

which bring me to my point: ring games are much slower moving than tourneys with quick rising blinds. if you are used to sng's, ring games are very very boring.

Here's the stats from the game (45/$1) i just played:

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 42 hands and saw flop:

- 5 out of 6 times while in big blind (83%)

- 0 out of 6 times while in small blind (0%)

- 1 out of 30 times in other positions (3%)

- a total of 6 out of 42 (14%)

Pots won at showdown - 1 of 3 (33%)

Pots won without showdown - 0

In the last two hands, I had 10:1 odds with 42os, I beat AK. Then, 33 hit trips against my AK. Before that AK, my best hand was A8 os. Not a single pairs, not even two high cards. My two highest cards together was that A8.