Electricladylnd is the only person on this thread that is making any sense at all, and maybe that guy that is concerned about collusion makes a decent point too. all these comments about the poker sites programming in bad beats and cash out curses are bullshit.
"but the system slows down some of the better players during stretches"
what? or maybe they just get a bad run of cards like everyone else and they suffer a bad beat every once in a while like everyone else.
Also, why would they spend money to make a separate system to track players and decide whether or not they are good? how do they know they're good? just because they make money? or are they just one of the ones on the right side of "all the bad beats"? So you're saying that they track players that win money, and instead of letting them move up to higher stakes where they will provide higher rakes, they decide to chop them down a bit to even things out? Oh wait, they do that to give donks hope, right? or maybe they give deposit bonuses and free rolls to give donks hope (oh wait no, that'd be legal, so they must be doing illegal things).
So you think they are fixing hands so that donks who call preflop with Q4 suited hit a flush on the river against your aces. how'd they know that donk would call all the way to the river though? do they have programs that analyze their psychology and decide that at this time of night, after this run of play, this donk will definitely call all-in with Q4 suited? and we'll give that good player MajaWaja aces and really screw him! Sweet dude, High Five programmer buddy, we just upped our rake potential by .000000000000000000000000000001%. we did? how? i don't know, do you? no, but the king of online poker said we had to do this illegal thing anyway.
remember, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO THE POKER SITE WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES! THEY GET THE SAME RAKE NO MATTER WHAT. so why would they go through the trouble of illegally manufacturing some special program to make YOU lose money while someone else makes it. if they switched it around, they'd make the same amount. so why do YOU lose and HE wins? How do i become a HE? do i get a lucky account?
Or do you claim that they let YOU win for a little while HE loses, and then they switch it after you cash out or something?
What about this claim of programming in "Action Cards" in tournaments or "all-in hands" in sit-n-gos. This is RETARDED. if they wanted you to finish the tournament quicker, they'd make turbo tournaments. OH WAIT, THEY DO! holy crap, they decided to make the tournament quicker LEGALLY instead of ILLEGALLY. amazing. if they still want you to get eliminated quicker, they'd make Knockout tournaments where they'd be incentivizing you to go all-in more often. OH WAIT, THEY DO! If they still wanted you to get eliminated earlier, they'd make the blinds go up even faster, like super turbo. OH WAIT, THEY DO! or maybe they make the ante's really big so that people go all in faster - OH WAIT, THEY DO!
what the fuck is the point of doing something illegal to get you to give them a rake faster? They have all these ways of doing it legally.
MajaWaja and Soblatant, i'm sorry, but you two have no clue. You are getting frustrated with Electricldyland because he's unable to "expand his brain" or something. But he's right. the quicker you realize it, the better. You're talking like people who think George Bush put a car bomb in the world trade.