Wrote on this before and got the majority pooh poohing it - though i dont believe poker sites are rigged per say - the fact is where there is easy money to be earnt you will always get people who will try and take advantage of the system to the determent of honest players.
Why people get surprised is beyond me as it happens everyday in all walks of life- there will always be people that want to make a buck the illicit way.
Lol this is absolutely nothing like the sites rigging hands. You can't even claim so yourself, so don't try and get that one through. And if you don't mean or think that it seems largely counterproductive to keep brining up that is what you actually believe over and over.
The pokernews article above is just weird. Loads of random questions asked to random guys. Not sure why plplaya thinks Russian ptr should be banned when it was one of the more useful tools for catching the bots and its not like the playerpool is so big at midstakes that you regularly see new accounts. It's just the same old faces everywhere. It's scary that stars think players are going to be thrilled that they catch 95% of bots. It doesn't really seem that high when a decent chunk are just going to 've straight up ridiculous and anyone could catch them. Think of all the crackpots who try these crazy schemes.
Oxford Chicago Joey did an interview with sauce where they discuss the bots and a wide range of other things. Basically stars security has an incentive to not catch bots that have avoided their security tools as it makes them look incompetent. Also they have a methodology for finding these bots and don't want to look outside of this to see what else they can find.
Omm from what I have read about the skier 5 program is that it kind of skirts the rules on software by not calculating anything in game, but rather it has thousands of static charts that it refers to. This is why a Nash calculator like Holdem resource calculator is not allowed, as it works this out at the time.
It seems very sketchy to me, and I have to question why stars thought this was a good line to draw. It seems way too powerful.
Arbboy you must 've trolling. The real punters play perfectly. So many regulars play badly and make nonsensical decisions. There are plenty of fish out there still who pot when they have it and half pot when they don't. Virtually every table on stars will have an extremely bad player on it. Tournaments even more so.
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