I have a list of poker sites that are not for real based on personal experience and expectations on the ones I haven't visited yet. The list of fraudelent ones follows:
All of them.
I've been playing online games for over 15 years and have been screwed over consistently during that time. Every once in awhile I've had a tiny bone thrown my way, but when it comes to crunch time and something important is on the line I've been disappointed without exception. I consider myself one of the top forensic internet game anaysts in the world. What invariably happens is that I separate myself from the run of the mill crowd and irk the high class competition. The high class competition includes the people that run the site. Naturally, they do not like to lose. The thought that an outsider can beat them at their own game is offensive. The strange and unbelievable experiences I've had amaze me.
In general the key to realizing what is real and what is not has been my solid foundation in mathematics. The very first game I proved was not on the up and up was a game called Archmage. I don't know and don't care if it still exists. Gain power, train troops get killed by someone, kill them back, stockpile troops, kill some more. Eventually you get frustrated at not making progress and stockpile an impossible number of troops that couldn't possibly lose...but still you do.
After farting around with other ridiculous Archmage style games I gave up and turned to chess and poker. I have achieved an official USCF Expert chess rating, and the sites I play on occassionally out of boredom tell me I'm a complete fish.
So for the last three years I've turned to poker. I'm a very good poker player. On a scale of one to ten I'll give myself an eight. Not good enough to go to Vegas and make it my career, but good enough that I should win more than I should lose. I earned my college spending money by killing guys at poker. But online, I butt heads with the game admins and have to suffer through all the non-realistic garbage that they throw at you.
As a forensic game analyst playing poker I've identified the following major groups of BS:
The player that can't possibly lose
The player that doesn't sleep
Idle chit chat that makes it look like the game is for real
Statiscal impossibilites
Feeding, especially during what I call the "free trial period"
Irrational betting patterns
The Magic River Card
Annoying the game admins
Taking advantage of the rules to succeed
Not getting booted for bad behavior (you're only playing against AI, why should you be reprimanded?)
But, Ah, where to start here? Let's go with the player that doesn't sleep.
I don't have a wife or girlfriend. The dogs haven't complained too much. I have lots of free time on my hands to do abnormal things - like get up at 1:00 in the morning and play. Including non-drunken and rational play when people I played with supposedly for real 4 hours ago are still playing like drunk and irrational chumps. The answer is that it's not a real player - it's a position created by the admins to fill out the roster.
One particularly bogus site that will go nameless to protect the guilty - the claim is that at times that up to 50,000 plus people are playing at the same time. I would log in and see the same(untalented) player no matter when I logged in. He should have been sleeping or out of chips, but NOOOO instead he's winning hands like crazy. As for the guilty, the player's name started with AK, in case you're paying attention.
Next up - the statiscally impossible
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