As others have already mentioned, Bad Beat Central. Also known as River Stars and Broker Stars. The way the cards fall are incredible.
In the flopped variations of poker, most flops (75%)are flush draws. Any made hand on a flop is often blown by the turn or river. For example a straight flops (but with two flush cards) the turn will either bring a flush or a full house. Or variations of the theme, paired board with two flush cards and a flush appears on turn etc. Also flushes are made at least 75% of the time instead of what should be 20%.
In Stud, I was in a hand with KAA and raise and am surprised that the 5, 4 and 3 (Bring In) all call my raise. 4th street I catch a K and fire away and they all call - I can't figure out what is going on - they all have the st8 cards that the others need. By 5th street, two of the callers have paired their 4th street card and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose....the reason - all three callers started tripped up and two of them were full on 5th. Now folks what are the odds of that?!
I have an even better one that someone told me about regarding Stud H/L. There is a lot of 3rd street raising. By fifth street, one person made quad 9s, one made a wheel straight flush (nut low and good for high) and the third person kid you not made a Royal Straight Flush. Nah.... the site couldn't possibly be rigged.
An earlier reviewer had mentioned lack of getting good cards but ah that is rather unusual. The other day while playing OMAHA, I had pocket QQ four hands in a row. Many a time, one will get KK or AA three hands in a row - as for it paying off that's another matter as often the worse starters win at this site.
It seems that some people have picked up on this such that no one folds as they are anticipating their RiverStar miracle.
It also seems that there seems to be a huge influx of newbie rich players that have money to burn and view this site as a glorified slot machine. They call everything down no matter what. I was playing a penny table and this one guy sat down with $100,000. No not a typo! You will actually see this type of call anything down behavior at the higher limits as well.
The site used to be known for it's tough players whom one really could learn stuff from but a good percentage of them have left the site - there are a few of them left but they are basically an endangered species.
So needless to say, either you get called down by someone who has one out and hits or no one bets, which is kind of funny given that PS is trying to set up action but has ended up killing it.
I agree with the guys who did the betting experiment - that idea had entered my mind as well - glad to see that someone did indeed try it.
All in all, either stick to penny tables or the play money tables --- actually due to the Slot Machine mentality not much difference in play.
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