Are most online poker sites honest?
Online poker is a fantasically profitable business for the operators of online poker sites. To cheat the the players at these sites would be extremely foolish. With the ability to diseminate information to other players via the Net, even the “hint” of inpropriety could cut deeply into a pokersites’ profits. What you see is what you get. They don’t have to cheat. Actually, they take a lesser amount per hand via the Rake, than most casino poker rooms, but they deal more hands with more efficiency than human dealers. That’s a better deal for the players. If you consider that some sites have 50k-100k players being raked $5-$12 per hour each, you’ll realize why they wouldn’t dare take the chance of players complaining of cheating. They also go to extreme lengths to minimize cheating done by other players. Integrity is paramount to a profitable poker site. The more players that they can attract, the safer your money is and a good poker player will overcome the small Rake that they take from
Are Poker Sites honest? I am afraid not. When I first started playing poker I had a fairly basic knowledge of the game yet I won and built a decent bank roll before hitting a losing run that wiped it out in 2 days. Only 10% of my losses were down to tilt. I tried again and built an even bigger bank roll over a few weeks. Then same again. Lost it in a fraction of the time it took to win. I began studying poker seriously and steadily got better. I got rid of many of the typical weaknesses that cost chips. I built another bank roll up to $6400, (over 30 times my buy-in of $200) over a few more weeks. Guess what. The same thing happened again. A losing run where I just couldn’t win a hand. It began to appear like a systematic pattern that had nothing to do with my ability or decision making. Poker odds which I had by now studied and learnt very well just didn’t apply. I should have stopped their when I had just a few suspicions that things may not be totally honest on these pokers sites. B
no it dose not matter how good a player you are if the computer decides it not your turn to win you will not win they might let you win a few weeks but then no matter what hand you get you loose with it the odd ten pounds here and there dose not matter but add it up at the end of the month an see how much you have lost then do the same after 3 months and tell me who is the winner you or the poker site
I think one of the previous responders said that you can’t prove that online poker sites are honest. Well, you can’t prove that responder was honest either. Or the person asking the question. Or me. It’s a tough question and one I’ve answered on my own website many times http://www.billrini.com Now first off, you need to make a distinction between the site being honest and the other players being honest. Cheating in poker happens regardless of whether you play it online, your weekly home game, or at the WSOP (yes, there are plenty of accusations about chip dumping every year). The online poker site cheating is an entirely different question. I have worked for two of the largest sites in fairly responsible positions (program manager in charge of software projects and one and the poker room manager at another). I can say without hesitation that I don’t believe either of those sites cheat the players. Heck, I helped design parts of the software so I have a pretty good understanding of wha
Not all. I make my living playing online poker though so I can tell you that they are basically honest. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to do that. The fact is that only 5% of poker players are profitable. And would be online or offline. It doesn’t matter. The ones who whine or say there is always cheating going on, just simply aren’t advanced enough. And, they don’t realize the huge variances of luck involved. Skill does always win out but you have to be consistent and you have to have an incredible amount of patience. You can play a whole year before luck finally evens out and you see how much you have won.
