justin 99% certain its all legit!! :)

How do they do this. It is absurd to think that some computer guy sitting in his office and fix my and my opponents’ hands – Bill is right that is too difficult and costly for them. My theory is this. Every player is rated, say excellent,good, average and poor or new and this rating is adjusted according to how much and how fast he wins or loses.The hands a player receive is determined by his rating. This cannot be to difficult for them to do ( I would think although i am not a computer nurd ) if their software is programed that way to begin with. Do I have a concrete proof? No i don’t but I I am 100% convinced that they cheat based on my experience and some limited stats I took.
Some 2 years ago I started to play 7 card stud at Pacific. my intention was to get my feet wet and move up to higher limit games.I consider myself an excellent 7 card stud player (of course most of the players think the same way). I won at much faster pace than I was accoustomed to. Then I noticed that I was still winning but much more slowly. I did not think too much of this ,knowing poker has peaks and valleys and eventaully the sound playing will take care of amount of money I win.This went on for a couple months. 2 months’long of bad streak? It happened before. No big deal. Right? But 2 months of playing online is like 6-7 months of playing casino games simply because of number of hands you play 70- to 80 hands/hr. vs. 40-45 hands/hr. and often I was playing in 2 games(low limit). Are my opponents playing better? Am I playing poorly? The answer was no and no. I felt the number of playable hands was not what the odds dectiate,frequencies of my bring ins seemed high and the number of bad beats did not make sense.(on the 6 th.st. if my opponent has only 3 outs and 27 cards left, i should be able to expect to win 8 out of 9 times in the long run. that was not happenning.) I kept telling myself I was going through the prolonged bad streak. Before I played higher limit games I decided to keep track of the first 3 cards dealt to me since this is the most critical point of 7 card stud. I only did this on 1000 hands. I realize this is not even close to be an ample sample but good enough for me to play from higher limit games. My bringins were almost 19% instead of 12-13% coupled with the increased number of unplayable hands my fixed cost of playing went up dramatically. This alone will stretch bad players’ bank roll because good players are not in the pot to punish their loose plays. Instead frqeuently 3 or 4 bad players in the pot and simply trading pots back and forth.
When I dicovered Empire I was so happy . They had more 7 card tables available than Pacific and the players were just as bad. Then the same thing happened, I won very quickly and after a while I was winning at much slower pace.After all the stud players left Empire, I joined Party and expect to do the same thing, winning fast in the beginning and things would slow down. They did. Now i play sit and go 7 stud mostly becuase of fixed cost of playing is lower than regular games(10% registration fee). I have played approx. 600 tournnaments and am a consistent winner as in Pacific and Empire. The first 10 I played I was in the money 8 times winning 4. the First 100 I played I came in the money 58 times. That must have put me in top rated class because now I come in the money around 50%. a
And I have better understanding how sit and go 7 stud should be played than before. But the pattern is exactly the same if you an excellent player you win ver fast in the beginning because your rating is low or unknown, and as you rating goes up it becomes more difficult for you to win.
They tilt the game in bad players’ favor by
1. increasing good players’ overhead – namely bringins. Once I had to bring in 8 in a row in 4 handed game when the bring ins were 200 chips. My stack of 5000 chips went down to 3000 chips without playing one hand. I think everyone folded once.
2.aces and bad players. I think all 4 aces are placed in the first 25 cards in some hands. Typically bad players value aces far more than they should. They will often chase you to the river when they have an ace even if they are semi dead. They catch the miracle ace far more often than the odds say they should. If poker site placed all 4 aces in the first 25-30 cards ,say, 3 out of 10 hands that should help bad players a lot. Recently I started asking for hand histories after every tournament because I was not winning all in hands (in sit and go when only 3 or 4 players are left, you often go all in by 3rd. 4th.st. because the stakes are so high by the time. I was ahead with a bigger pair every time except one hand when my opponent had a pocket a’s I figured I was favored to win 60-70% of these hands.But I lost 16 out of 18 mostly to 2 small 2 pairs while I did not catch a second pair.
3. If you go against another good player in heads up situation bad beats don’t happen as often. That is because he is rated high like you and he gets cards similar to yours.

Many of your readers have similar exprience. While no one can prove beyond the resonable doubt, the online card rooms do have the motivation to rig the game in bad players’ favor so that I,the good player,and bad players will remain with their site as long as possible. Am I wrong? Anyone?

Is it legal for poker sites to use “commercial bots” if it irrelevant whether they lose or win. In other words, a new poker site might create 500 bots to give the impression of traffic on the site and thereby lure people into spending their money. Is this legal? Anyone?

Thanks

After reading your article I questions my arguments on why they do it but I am sure they do.