Is online poker rigged?

I've read loads of posts on major forums saying how online poker is rigged, most have just been badbeats and the players are basically venting their frustrations. Online poker has had a rough time this last year or so, with the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet superuser scandals and the use of BOTS on Full Tillt it is very clean that online poker can be rigged or people can cheat.

The reason I bring this up is that I have my suspicions of something thats not completely legitimate on the ipoker network, the other day I was playing a points buy-in tornament on the VC Poker skin, now this is gonna just sound like a badbeat but from the start of the game it felt like the cards were being dealt against me, for instance I would be in the big blind with KQ off, two players limp in and we see the flop, it would be something like A 10 4 rainbow, yeah sure I could chase the draw but I just got this feeling it would never hit. This situation came up about 3 or 4 times in the first 30min and it seemed it was destined to make me go broke, well i resisted the urge to chase the draws and then boom I get dealt AA, someone with half the size of my stack shoves pre-flop everyone else fold so I call, he shows something like 22 and obv hits a 2 so he takes half my chips, then 1 hand later I get dealt KK, someone shoves who just about has me covered, everyone else folds and I call as im now short stacked, yet again they hit some ridiculous card to send me out.

This sort of thing has happened loads to me on both of the ipoker skins I use (not at the same time so no multi-accounting), this has made me question the network and withdraw all of the funds I had on there, it is a real shame as ipoker was one of the first networks i started on.

Im not saying it is rigged, I could be just having some god awful bad luck but I think i'll take a break from ipoker and see how I feel in the new year.

On a better note, i'm playing lots more on PokerStars and loving every minute of it so it aint all bad.

thadeas.