 Inconclusive
My 2 cents on this thread.
First off, I can't say for certain that PS - or any other site for that matter - isn't rigged. And while I get the whole 'The more players they knock out, the more rebuys/re-entries they get' argument, here's what doesn't make sense to me:
1) This is a transparent operation. I mean the games themselves can be documented and analyzed. While I've heard a lot of, 'Hey look at the hand history for this S&G' or what have you, I haven't seen a genuine statistical analysis of, say, 25K hands. I have to imagine that with +100K players online most days and with at least some of those players being mathematicians and accountants with DB experience, SOMEONE would feed the data into the machine and have it spit out a result that says, 'Yes, this site's RNG is hinky'. I haven't seen that yet. What I've seen is a bunch of people, obviously on tilt, saying, 'I had 10 bad beats in a day' or, 'I had a 30 day streak' and that PROVES the site is rigged. Surely PS would recognize the possibility of someone documenting a rigged site if the rigging of that site is right out there for anyone to measure and prove.
2) Like with any conspiracy, there have to be some people in on it. The owners, core staff and management of not just PS but of any site lack the programming ability to run their own servers and software. That means an IT staff and for an outfit like PS that's got to be a pretty big group of people. Over the years how many? Dozens maybe? Hundreds? And with all the money floating around out there and all the press on internet gaming AND with US Indian casino owners trying to shut it down via Congressional legislation, not one of these IT folks has come forward and said, 'Yes, they use bots' or, 'Yes they knock out strong hands to put people on tilt so they rebuy and/or re-enter'. I haven't heard or seen that anywhere and I've looked thoroughly.
3) Has anyone studied the RNG and stats for fake money tables? I've always wondered how I can stack $1M or more per day playing fake money S&Gs but not do nearly as well by percentage when I move to cash. And yes, I recognize the game is totally different on cash tables versus fake but, if anything, I normally do BETTER on cash tables as the play is more structured, more accurate, more predictable, etc. So is it possible that rather than the cash money tables being rigged to knock out the favorite hand, are the fake money tables - which need not be 'regulated' at all as they're just for entertainment - set up to keep more players in so they don't get frustrated and give up on the game? I have no idea but it's an interesting thought.
Alright, that's all I have to add.
Cheers -
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