Now they can even say that the hardware or software malfunctioned and not pay out. Since the software is proprietary and secret, how does the player know? They have to take the words of the kind benevolent casino owners and managers and the good hands people behind them!
I quit playing internet poker because every software examined used by every poker site had superuser software. Want to play poker with your cards face up and the cards of everyone on the table face up except the superuser's? The other thing was people with money in the site were allowed to create dozens of users. Do you want to sit down at a nine handed game when seven of the hands are being ran by the same person?
Personal opinion, electronic gambling is far too open to cheating to play for anything but entertainment. Not that mechanical machines aren't often rigged too. One of the "how it is made" shows took apart an old slot machine. A bar fell into certain slots to determine wins and losses. The slot for the big win had a bolt and nut securely blocking it off!
Hu
At one point, a person didn't have to be part owner or associated in any way to be able to occupy more than one seat at a time at the same table while playing for real money on the online casino's.
At one time, all you had to do is have 4, 5, 6, 7, or even 8 computers and have a "real" IP hider for each, as long as you didn't live in the US or a couple other places.
All you had to do was set up legit emails and bank accounts for each computer. Put the "x" number of monitors on a large desk. The computers almost had to be hard wired. Wireless was not very smart since you forfeited any hand where you lost connection.
There were smarter ways to do it but, it forced you to have partners (or witnesses...lol).
You would go online and enter the site with each computer.
After you had as many as you wanted at table, lol....lets just say you could control the game 99% of the time.
There was one drawback. Lol.....this is what I witnessed:
He's sitting at 8 seats and one other person sits. Its 1k / 2k no limit holdem. All 8 of his hands end up with pairs or connected and suited. This is what he had:
2/2
10/10
6/6
A/A
J/Q suited
8/9 suited
Q/K suited
4/5 suited
Well, the "one" other person raises to 3k pre flop. He calls with all his hands....odds, remember? He is 24k in at this point and hasn't even seen a flop.
Well, the flop comes and it shows promise on several of his hands. It was 2 hearts, 3 hearts and 6 diamonds.
He bet 4k with one of his hands just to make sure he get something in the pot, because he was expecting the other player to fold. Lol... then...the one person calls his 4k bet.
At this point he had 40k invested and the turn hasn't even come and the "one" player at table has shown he is staying.
The turn comes and its a J of spades.
Now he has lots of possibilities. He's liking it a lot.
He checks his hands But, the other player actually bets another 4k....lol.
Of course, he called with the possible boats and the flopped str8 and the Q/K suited (hearts) for the possible flush. It seemed it was a lock to win with one of them.
Now he has to put another 16k in pot. He cant fold the possible boats, the possible flush and especially the flopped str8....right? Now he has 56k in pot.
The river comes and it's a freaking 3 of diamonds.
He bets 2k to look like he's trying to trap. Well, the other player pushes it to 10k. Lol....of course my buddy folded all but the str8 and called the other 8k.
At that point he had 60k invested.
The other player had 3/3 in the hole. Lol.....
It was a damn good thing he was and still is a very wealthy individual. I about had a stroke. He just shakes his head, smiles and refills each hand and then....poof....the player that hit him stood up and left table.
I'll never forget that smile on his face. It reminded me of the look on Efren's face when he gets a bad roll or happens to miss a shot or safe.
We've all watched Efren smile and shrug things off that piss most people off.
Anyways, a while later, someone came out with the program that allowed you to see everyone's cards but, that particular program was and still is extremely hard to run without throwing flags everywhere.
Around the same time, my friend gets married and stopped playing online and moved to Vegas...lol.
Yep, Vegas LOVES him.
BTW, he's not a pool player. He says it's to boring and looks like to kuch work...lol.
Jeff
Now I kind of know what is possible in theory with no idea how to or interest in carrying it out. I said I was going to really learn the software running my next computer. I find I can't really be bothered since I know it won't make me a dime in retirement. I compete for fun. More and more it seems like everything else has to have a dollar motive!
