A few of my friends and I have been playing
PokerStars for about a year and a half, maybe two years. We are all decent players, but our worst beat stories
always came from
PokerStars. I remember one hand where I was dealt pocket Aces, I tripled the blinds when it got to me, had two or three callers. Flop comes out AKK. Check gets around to me and I bet about half the pot. Person to my left moves all in, everyone else folds. I sit for a little bit, then I call. She has 4-of-a-kind Kings. Obviously, that's not
proof per say, but by this point I've certainly had my suspicions raised. Now, let me tell you what
is proof.
A couple days ago my friend and I were at his house playing in a quick 3-table tourney, a freeroll. Well, on the first hand we were dealt pocket 9s. Not the best hand in a freeroll since everyone likes to move in on the first hand anyway. Well, somebody raised 200 to 220, he got a couple callers, we raised it 200 to 420, and everyone that had already called the initial bet called our raise. Flop comes out K 8 6 or something similar that didn't help us. By this point, we've already committed so many chips we decided just to shove and get it over with. As you can imagine, we lost. Some dude ended up making a set of 8s with 84 offsuit.
Big deal, it was a freeroll and we really didn't care. So how's that proof? Well, about 10 minutes later while we were playing some GameCube, his computer beeped twice like something was going on in the background. So we look at it and...
PokerStars is open. Not only is
PokerStars open, but we're in a tournament. What tournament? The SAME EXACT tournament that we were just knocked out of on the first hand. I kid you not. We were sitting with 1,440 in chips, everyone was sitting in the same seat, everyone that had been knocked out on that first hand was sitting there with a little less than the starting stack size. So we were obviously both creeped out of our skin and we tried chatting the people up on there to see what was going on. Nobody responded to us. We typed something along the lines of "Hello? I went all-in the very first hand of this tournament and got knocked out, so why am I sitting here with 1,440 in chips??" Nobody responds. So at this point the only thing left to do is to check our instant hand history. We open it up and there isn't even a record of the very first hand. In fact, there weren't even records of some of the hands that were played while we were sitting there trying to talk to these people.
So what exactly could have happened that caused
PokerStars to put us back in this freeroll? A glitch in their system is all I can think of, but here's my best explanation of their "system". Anyone remember StarCraft at all? Remember playing against computers? Remember how the computers always knew where you were even if they hadn't scouted out that part of the map? Well, I think the same thing is going on at
PokerStars. They have a bunch of bots that sit at the tables with real players. They know what hand you have and what hands each other has. Then, they simply play the odds. If they hold a drawing hand with x% to suck out and it's only x% of their stack to call, they'll go for it. If you're completely dominated on the flop and you try bluffing, they'll call no matter what. If you have them dominated on the flop, think 99% odds, and they know they're going to suck out runner runner, they'll call anything.
Think about it. There's no hard evidence of
PokerStars cheating, aside from if we had been able to capture this glitch on video or something. All there are are bad beat stories and impossible odds. And people always say, "what does
PokerStars have to gain by rigging it? If someone else wins, they get the money, not
PokerStars." That may be true, but if
PokerStars really uses bots like I've suggested, then they
are getting that money. It's really a pretty damn good scam.
One thing's for sure. I'll never play that fucking rigged piece of shit ever again. In fact, after witnessing that glitch, I'll never play any online poker ever again. It could very well all be rigged. What's to stop every poker site from using bots for players? There's a lot of money to be made. I wish I had a video of the glitch occurring, but it's impossible to anticipate something like that happening. I hope those of you who are nay sayers can keep your mouths shut and let this rigged site be exposed for what it is.