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.

Big Mistake!!!

First off gotta say Congrats to my best mate Paul, he and his loverly girlfriend Bridget have had a baby girl called Scarlett on tuesday morning.

So to celebrate the birth we did exactly what we should have, we went and got pissed, we started off at the sea anglers club but after acouple hours we went to the Imperial pub,.

this is where the mistake happens, the Imperial run the Hastings Poker League (http://www.localpokerleagues.co.uk) and have a nice table, I shout my mouth off about how good at poker I am and boom before I know it alittle £5 game starts with 5 runners, my mate Paul goes out first (he's not good at all) then I bust a guy called Wayne to leave us 3 handed and me chip leader. Well what happens next just sucked, I'm first to act so I 3 bet, get called by Scottie and Amanda (she runs the pub), flop is J 6 2 rainbow, I have QK of clubs and I shove, Scottie folds and Amanda calls, she shows 10 6 ofsuit (wtf), well I dont improve my hand so I get crippled, I went out in third after another shove. I made myself look like a right mug but in my defense I was proper shit faced but I still cant see how Amanda calls with pair of sixes on the flop when I represent a big hand and it was for her torney life.

Had a cold since then so no action on virtual tables.

My daughters 10th birthday is sunday (Nov 2nd) but I wont see her so I gave her the presents yesterday (weds), she was chuffed and its always nice to spend time with her.

That is all for now.

thadeas.

Dual Monitors

I've just setup up a second monitor on my computer, I felt it was time to get more serious and stick to sng's to build my bankroll, its really weird having to screens to look, hopefully now is the time to get some decent bankroll and results under my belt.

thadeas.

Party Time

PartyPoker has had a much needed update and I must say so far it's looking good, I don't normally play party much but they gave me a nice bonus and i've already doubled it, also any scores I get in MTT's is tracked by P5's so its a win win situation for me.

Ladbrokes will be holding the LEOCOP 4 later this month, I hopefully will play acouple events and see how I do.

thadeas.

Blue SQ can SMD!

So ive played a few sng's on Blue SQ (ipoker skin), every time I get my cards in ahead I seem to lose the hand, I have had pocket Aces, Kings and Queens cracked time after time, I hate that site.

I would post hand histories but unfortunately ipoker sites have the worst hand histories and you basically cant get them in a semi-decent language.

end of rant.


thadeas.

Recent activity

I haven't posted for the whole month of August, damn I need to get off my lazy ass.

I've been playing mostly at LadbrokesPoker, dunno why really I just have been. It's been going badly, my goal is to take down the daily $3 Rebuy $2.5k GTD but havent even made the money as of yet and had some really dissapointing games. Last night from 366 players and 40 places paid I finished in 59th, the only good thing was that I hadn't done a rebuy and completely forgot to do the add-on so I basically got away with just the buy-in. I'M GONNA TID SOON!

Not much else to say really, I'm gonna choose another site to play once I work out which torneys are good for my bankroll and the start time which cater for me then I will basically just play that site and Laddies and thats that.

see ya

thadeas.

Hows it been going?

On sunday i played a session which was 6 torneys in total, 2 were on stars and kept getting rivered by the worst hand so nothing there. The other 4 torneys were on Blue SQ Poker which is on the ipoker network, 3 of them were brutal and got nothing but I did managed to get 30th in the 12.5k GTD which gave me a little profit for the day and I was fairly happy with how I played overall.

I havent played since and probably wont until Thursday, because of my 30th finish I got more ranking points on P5's and now am only 61 points from being the top ranked player in my town so im gonna make a run at it and hopefully get it done by the end of the weekend.

Gonna see my daughter today, she has been away for a week on holiday in rome with my ex-inlaws, i hope she had a nice time and am really looking forward to seeing her as its been two weeks since i last did.


thadeas.