[Doody206]

I played for 4 years on free sites and got to the point where I was dominant. Then finally I went to PS with $100 and started where I left off else where by kicking butt.

I built a pretty nice bank roll instantly and then the weird stuff started happening. Obviously at first I thought it was the rare bad beat but then I noticed how often it would happen.

I went to the WSOP this year and met quite a few people who were talking about the site being rigged and on many different levels.

Some were talking about how the bad beats came more frequently after they withdrew profits, others spoke of how the high stakes game are less rigged than the small money tourneys because high stakes players would catch on and leave.

I have another "theory" about the site. I made the mistake of chatting about the site being rigged and noticed brutal beats coming my way in huge waves.

I'm not talking the occasional 6 outer than someone catches once every 100 tourneys I'm talking being ahead 80-20 10 times and losing 9 day after day, week after week.

I truly believe they can change outcome based on chat.

I used to live in DC and would chat on the site about Congress tracking play as well as some kids from harvard that built some tracking software that showed in small money tourney's a flush draw hit 37% of the time.

To counter my "theory" I shut up for a week and magically my luck turned around. I wasn't winning like I should have been but I was at least getting bad beats less often.

I had read on here that someone took a week off and went back. I just did this. I took a week off and went back and was running pretty well. Over the past two days I started chatting about the feds passing new laws to allow US Casino's into the biz which will destroy the overseas sites and suddenly I started running bad.

Today I played in 4 small dough tourneys and of all the hands I played I was only behind once in a big situation. I won only 23% of the hands and most of those 23% went down in my last tourney where my higher hand held up (which should happen almost all of the time)

Another thing that was mentioned here was how they set you up. I had the chip lead and then was dealt A/Ks. One guy raised 3x BB pre-flop and I called. The flop came off K/J/7 and I bet and he pushed all in.

How on Earth can you get away from top pair top kicker when you know he has a 93% chance of having a lower pair than I do?

It's impossible.

I called and he had bullets and they held up.

I lose a third of my stack there.

Then soon after I get moved to another table where the chip leader sits and I get K/K and raise. He calls we see the flop which missed us both and was no harm to my K's.

I make a bet and he goes all in.

Think about that.

What on earth could the chip leader have that would push him all in against another big stack? especially since we were near the bubble.

I call and he has Q/10s which was mid pair and he had 1 of his suit on the board.

Obviously he catches runner runner flush to take me out.

Some will say that this is isolated bad beats but it's not at all.

I've played there a long time and when I get my chips in with Q/Q against 6/6 I truly feel I'm going to lose and that's not how a poker player should feel.

When people say that PS isn't rigged ask them if they think Vegas slot machines are rigged?

You put a dollar in and they let you win 80 cents and so on.

This is how PS works.

There is no way in hell Raymer knows what's going on. Those guys are clueless.

They do not play there regularly. They play there on occasion and they play high stakes only.

I guarantee you that if Greg Raymer played $5 tourneys for a month he'd say it's rigged.

Look at Matasow. He was telling people at the WSOP that PS is rigged and look at the beating he's taken there over the past 3 months.

bad beats are one thing but flush draws hitting 37% is not bad beats.

It's helping newbies and donks survive just like the Vegas slot machine helps you survive.

peace