I'll preface this by saying that I think online poker is not rigged, in general, but man oh man... I am not judging this for you, just providing links to relevant information.
About a month or so ago a handful of well known internet pro's on online poker forum 2+2 (biggest online) were doing some pokertracker stat analysis and noticed a few players with some unreal stats... They blew up that it had to be cheating based on the stats. Threads broke out and convinced a large percentage of the online poker community that indeed there was something amiss...
After a while, the noise died down for a month or so, but a few days ago Absolute Poker Support was working with one of the players who was certain he had been a victim of cheating (at the high stakes cash games). They were sending over hand history from events of the players in question to try and alleviate the allegations.
Well, It seems that the absolute poker rep messed up and sent out the hand history that included everyones hole cards at the table... everyone.
Well, I just have to put it out there so you guys are aware.
Hand History & Explanation from Jennifear. You can also see the visual hands via the pokerxfactor hand replayer from the above link, when you watch the hands play out... Well, it's telling.
Graph of database mining results (scroll down just a bit)for poker tracker compared to the superusers. The vertical is their winrate in BB per 100 hands. This chart represents the data for every player in that database who has played between 500-800 hands.
Absolute's Official Response - Mark Seif tells us it's ok.
Anyway, that's not all the fun that's been going on in the crazy world of poker lately...
Bryan Micon was scammed for $12k by a guy he met in Vegas and has made it his mission to get his money back utilizing his poker forum, neverwinpoker.com (warning, this is a
very NOT SAFE FOR WORK forum and is full of poker degenerates, it is common to see nudity and extremes on this forum, so don't say you were warned if you want to see the
Micon Scammed for 12k Story - btw, the audio of phone conversations between Micon and the scammer are good.