Hey,
Been a little while since i have been here, but i am sure that the same old poker is rigged chat has been going on, but i have a question/theory.
This goes back to something that happened to me in my early days of poker. At a table, i, looking back on it now, completly miss-read the play that someone was making. So i pushed all in on a draw off the flop, made my hand on the river, beat him and took all his money. Well, do you think he was happy. He sat there an berated me, and me making mention of the fact that i have his money now, i won the hand, and if he was such an expert, why didn't he have my money, which in hindsight, wasn't nice, but he was being a wanker about it anyway.
Anyway, to get to my point. Do you think that people think that poker is rigged and they are so hard done by because of plays like that. They make a play and do everything right, but because on tv, the other person folded, so the other player should too. And when they don't and they go runner runner and take the pot, all of a sudden the poker software has divided by zero and decided all of a sudden that it doesn't like them, and therefore there was a pre-meditated plan to remove all of said persons chips, the same money he should have held aside for their laundry this week. And all this occured on the back of a play that was, in theory, bad. A smart player would have folded, but this new player, that hasn't worked out percentages yet calls or raises and the cards you never would have seen, come out in their favour.
I am not sure if other people have thought like this, i am sure they probably have.
