What do you think about pokerstars??

Question

full answers please... jus curious... i think its all rigged up

Answer 1

I stopped playing there quite a while ago for several reasons.

I only play tournament NL Texas Holdem and had some questionable experiences on the site, the statistical probabilities of some of the hand results just were out of the normal scale, even for online poker sites.

In fact it was Pokerstars that first led me to consider what is called the Poker Action Flop Theory.

Here is  a link to the Action Flop Theory, you can judge for yourself.

http://www.thedoverpro.com/poker-action-...

Good luck at the tables!

Answer 2

no problem.

Answer 3

I like it a lot.

http://www.pstarstrade.com

Answer 4

i think its a good site

Answer 5

The idea that online poker is rigged is one that is usually filled with weak arguments.  

So you've noticed a lot of bad beats.  It's easier to the software or the site and ignore the fact that you play more hands per hour online than in real life.  So it will remain painfully obvious that there will be more bad beats, especially when other players feel comfortable playing and chasing weak hands with the anonymity of the Internet.  

Also, if it's "rigged up" how long would it be for a former, disgruntled employee to blow the whistle?  Hardly anything can be kept secret, even our own governments can't hide everything!  Someone is always  talking.  

From a business standpoint, rigging a site would have little to do in the way of helping the site make money.  Poker sites make money from rake and tournament fees.  They don't make money when you have none in your account!  It costs poker sites money to pay for payment processors when players deposit and withdraw money.  It isn't very cost effective to have people depositing all the time.  

Next time you take a few bad beats in a row, check your own play and bankroll management before think about blaming everything on rigging.

Answer 6

anyone who plays Jokerstars long enough will watch miracle hands beat by flat-out impossible hands on a consistent basis.

Playing more hands per hour is not a sufficient answer to this situation.  While it is undeniably true that these hands CAN occur, the odds of seeing a straight flush are very high.  The odds of seeing more than a single straight flush within 20 hands of each other become something close to lottery odds.

Quads come around now and again.  You'll see a couple in your lifetime.  On pokerstars, quads occur multiple times each tournament and strangely, they happen in conjunction with hands that seem unbeatable, notably a full house.  

The odds of a monster hand are understandable, the confluence of events that place monster hands AGAINST monster hands so often is frankly unintelligible when viewed in the aggregate.

Do a quick google search for pokerstars and rigged.  See what you get.  Sure there are bad players out there, but how many of them are beaten consistently when holding a nut flush or a full house?  There's unusual, then there's d**n suspicious and pokerstars goes to a level entirely beyond all of these things.

Answer 7

It's the largest and most respected poker site in the world.

It's not just some fly by night company in some backwards third world island.  They are actually based on the Isle of Man, right off the coast of England.  They follow local gambling laws, designed to protect the consumer.  They are properly regulated and have to abide by all kinds of laws to stay in business.

They have dealt something like 18 billion hands since they have been in business.  They have sent more people to the WSOP main event than any other poker site in the world.

All they have to do is run a fair game, and they are going to make millions of dollars.  So why rock the boat by cheating?

In fact, cheating just doesn't make any sense at all.  It would take several people all participating in order to cheat effectively.  It would only take one person to get mad and go to the media, and their company could be destroyed.  So why take that kind of risk?  I find it hard to believe that this company would be in business all this time, and no one ever went to the media to prove cheating, if it really existed.

Most people who claim cheating is happening are bad players who don't understand the game.