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Originally Posted by Carlota69
I do not trust online poker. When I use to play online, I use to see, straight flushes, royal flushes, and quads as if they were as common as 2 pair. That's not how it is in the real world. Plus, I knew people who worked in teams to take people out.
I know I'm lucky enough to live in a city where I can play anywhere anytime. I know online poker is cool for those without that luxury, but I hate playing online players. More times tan not, they chase the hell out of hands cuz they expect the hands to play like they do online. They expect all the high hands, and you can't get them off a hand to save your life. Now, sometimes thats a good thing, but not always...
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I know it may seem that way, and the reason many ppl have that view IMO is because you see so many more hands an hour. You have the option to multi table as well. You see about 20-25 hands an hour in live poker, at one table online you can see up to 60. So, bad beats will appear to occur to you much more frequently.
As far as ppl working in teams, it's much less of a problem than most ppl think, especially with a game like Hold 'Em. It is more of a concern with Omaha, but all online poker rooms have security departments who monitor this type of thing, and poker regs monitor this thing themselves. There is a huge community of regulars that once they suspect this sort of thing (and it's easy to spot) will nip it in the bud right away. I have played over 1 million online poker hands. You can go through my hand history and see the distribution of starting hole cards and made hands and see that mathematically you are reaching the same hands just as frequently as the deck allows.
All of this aside, this is legal and regulated, and there is no incentive to rig the games. I hear the more rake thing all the time, but there would be such a minimal incentive to do so it would not be worth it for a company to put their trust and reputation on the line.
As far as the underlined part your post I strongly disagree with that. It depends all depends on equity and a given players hand ranges. When I play a player with a tight range, generally I will be calling them way more often to try to hit a big hand because they will pay me off. But that is what players do live and online, but the online game is FAR tighter than live and you have WAY less fold equity in most live games (this is a good thing for Live games). You will have 5 and 6 way pots ALL the time Live, but I go through thousands and thousands of hands online before I ever see a 5 or 6 way pot.