The last couple of years in review of rigged poker

Let's recount the things that don't make any sense from the standpoint of "outside the cards." People can rail on the bad beats to no end, but the real clues are mostlyoutside the cards.

Operation First at the Table continues to be a winner. It is simply impossible to be at a PokerStars sit and go game where you are the first at the table. AI doesn't have to click on "OK."

We've had blackjack players hitting on a hard 19 and drawing a 2 when stackwise they shouldn't be desperate. And on both of those I've seen there was a subsequent post joking about how lucky they were. The translation - I can manipulate the cards and/or know what the outcome is going to be.

We had the weeklong period where PokerStars registered innocuous players like crazy - david42, sam1013, tina004, etc.... Probably not a coincidence that this was right before the big 25th billion hand celebration.

We have a host of people with low self-esteem that have decided to name themselves something like "Pustule" instead of something that meant a little more personal to themselves.

We have positions on PokerStars that register for a tournament, even a pretty big buy-in, and sit out the whole game.

Even including tonight's game I played, PokerStars still just can't be consistent on what to do with their time bank.

They're are players that can raise impossibly faster than a real human could do.

This has dried up recently, but there used to be a lot of positions saying, "I have to go." Instead of the proper etiquette of sitting out, they would universally go all in. And it would work. Consistent with knowing the outcome of the hand.

There have been insane chatfests about loser boyfriends and similar nonsense. Exactly why did you choose a poker room to talk about this instead of Facebook?

Absolute consistently uses the phrase "hun" instead of "hon" or "honey" in chat. And no other site has ever done it.

UltimateBet has created screen names that were a parody of my name in seconds, when it should take several minutes to go through the process of registering.

Race tables have way too many chips for the losers to support without there being some obvious "I don't care about my chip stack" activity.

The caution tape on this Asian babe says it all. Play internet poker at your own risk. Yes, these are free money games I investigate. But it's impossible to prove that they can't do this to you on the real money games. Me and the dog are convinced.