Good Evening,

I have been playing live poker games since the age of 18. I have done very well and considered a good poker player against most of the players I have played with. I am very familiar with calculating odds and figuring probabilities. I have had much success with the game away from the computer. I am now 38 years of age and started playing on-line for the first time this year on POKERSTARS.com. THIS SITE IS RIGGED. I GUARANTEE THAT THERE IS AN ALGORITHMIC FORMULA WHICH QUICKENS THE PACE OF THE GAME BY ELIMINATING PLAYERS WITH A SMALLER BANK ROLL. This in turn, allows POKERSTARS to get tournaments over quicker. WHY? Because they make there money from entry fees. The quicker the games, the faster they fill new tournaments. Don't believe me? Check out a tournament table sometime and watch the bad beats that happen on a consistant basis. Not a fairly consistant basis, but a CONSISTANT basis. This happens in a number of ways, and it can be easily witnessed by anyone with poker knowledge. It is especially common in all-in situations where 1 to 3 players go on in. Also, watch how players in all-in situations which only usually involve 4-6 cards( 2 from each players hand)always catch part of the flop. A very, very, very unusual coincidence. If you play poker on a regular basis and understand the game, probabilities and odds, then there is an absolute based on my observation ( and yours once you watch) that POKERSTARS is rigged. It is rigged and that is that. I have heard similar claims for other sites and I have seen this anomaly on them as well. I am more familiar with POKERSTARS so I will reference them. As far as other cheating methods imposed by these sites, I cannot prove them valid. I am sure that it probably exsists, but it is impossible to prove. Bill, as far as your claims, here are my comments for you. If you were involved in the development of certain poker software and claim it is not rigged, then you were not as involved in the process as you think you were. Or you are involved with these sites and feel the need to tout them for economic reasons. Whatever the case, for one to give you the "empirical evidence" you are looking for; it would involve a detailed inspection of the software developed and in use by these sites. And since you know that the commentors on this site will never have access to these proprietary software programs, then you feel extremely safe in making and standing behind your contentions. My contentions are made on observations and analysis of thousands of hands that I have been involved in and watched involving on-line poker. Your's are based on nothing more than " you have no evidence so your observations are wrong"!!! Well thats not good enough for the thousands of people that claim they are. Sure there are bad beats in poker, we have all experienced them. There are also bad bets in poker as well. We try to limit our bad bets, so lets all start by not betting our hard earned money with on-line poker sites and the biased touts of it's employees.


RC