From a post made to one of the other hands

JD here you are and this is his post. See JD is one of those people who like to get on the sites and say Full Tilt Poker is not rigged, they wouldnt risk this, why would they do this when they are already making money, blah blah blah. Well obviously JD doesnt understand business. So I will explain it to him. Here is his post:

JD said..Ok dudes. I can always tell when people are lying because their arguments stop making sense. Why would full tilt care about making flushes happen when you have flopped a set. A fourth card of the same suit is considered a scare card, not a scam. A scare card actually decreases the likelihood that people will bet. It is infuriating, but it would not even serve a fathomable purpose for the poker site. As for all the evidence? None of it is legitimate. Why would a poker site cheat? Imagine this, you own a poker site, that deals random cards. People come to your site and give you money and then ultimately let you keep it. You make a lot of money because a lot of people use your site. Meanwhile, you take a walk in the park, grab a smoothie, and egg your mother in law's car. You then take a nap, go to the bank, and cash your massive check. There is no point in changing the system. A significant group of the population already believes that the poker site is cheating them, so why confirm their beliefs. Why even allow for the remote possibility that your site gets shut down? Owning a poker site that runs cards fairly is a breeze. Instead of giving programmers money to create cheating software to increase revenue, why not spend that money on advertising? It would achieve the same effect, with no risk. I'm tired of seeing blogs with one sided arguments on how not just Full Tilt is rigged, but every poker site they have ever played on is. Now, I have to say that if people really do leave the sites that are "obviously" rigged like they say they do, then where is the fair site that nobody is leaving. The site that people can "obviously" tell is fair. Where is the fair site that people don't think is cheating them out of their money? There isn't one because the other sites aren't cheating you. As for the stories about insiders who confirm that cheating happens. They always start out reasonable and then they completely give their falsity away by including something completely ludicrous. "I've been friends with Mike Matusow,and his brother, Scott, (who does not play poker at all, but is disc Jockey, he does podcasts)for a few years now, since 2006. And Mike did confirm to me in private that Full Tilt Poker is, in fact, rigged. They want the tournaments to end as fast as they can, so the people that lose can enter another tournament and thus, give more money to the site. I asked him this once when we were playing at home over a beer, and he was very cocky about all of this. He asked me,"Have you ever had any bad beats there?(FTP)" and I said,"Yeah. Tons of times." He laughed maniacally and then explained the method, which is too long for me to explain here, regarding the way people are destroyed with staff" This part of the story was well constructing. The inclusion of detail about Mike's brother leads an unobservant reader to believe that this commenter has some degree of credibility. And here comes the ridiculous part. "On top of that, the deal is not random, but rather, controlled by a human, not a cpu, and that is why you will see 3 or 4 people get knocked out by a guy who goes all in with an 8/3 offsuit or something ridiculous like that." ... a human? really? This person is trying to tell you that poker sites have a room full of people who pick a random table and screw with it. Now I'm not sure how much these people would be getting paid, but that sounds massively inefficient to me. While I am open to new ideas, this is completely absurd. All of the games are run by computers dimwit. Any worker interferance wouldn't be worth the wages they are being paid. Stop bsing the world with your garbage. given that one part of the story is clearly false, you can then only conclude that the rest of it really has no credibility. You can determine that this guy probably is not friends with the poker player, and probably did not sit down and have a beer with him. There, are you happy now? This argument has several words.  

 

Well JD let me explain it to you. Lets say I tell you that you can make $5,000.00 an hour and do nothing. All you have to is run a legitimate poker site. No cheating, nothing. Everything is straight up, good hands win most of the time, bad hands and bad players lose money and stop playing and dont come back to the site. So now you have a poker site making $5,000 bucks an hour and you are doing nothing, but your players arent really growing either so rather than increasing profits, your profit stays pretty much right at 5,000 an hour.  

 

I come to you and say I can create software that can make games go quicker, this same software can also track players and make sure that good players dont make to much money and bad players win every once in a while so they want to keep playing. And you say "nah, thats not really ethical or fair" and this programmer says well I can guarantee you that if you do it you can go from making $5000 an hour to making $50,000 an hour. All of a sudden your ethics pretty much go out the window. Because greed is an amazing thing and in our society everyone wants more money.   

 

So software is installed which deals "action cards" and the games go faster which means more players pay more tourney fees and more rake to the site. 

 

Bad players hit more of there gutshots and flushes and one outers and two outers on the turn and river and they like it. They like the rush they get from the bad beat so when they are out of money, they deposit more and keep playing.  

 

These people in turn invite their friends to get bonus money.......money that only becomes a bonus once you earn enough Full Tilt points (which are earned by fees you pay the site) that the site makes sure they dont just give you money without making some on the bonus. So the player base grows........  

 

Then you realize uh oh someone might catch on, lets take our servers and company which was located in CA and required the system to be audited and checked for randomness to another country. Costa Rica sounds good. They dont have any fair gambling laws. So now I am located in another country and I dont have to get audited and the system (according FT own website) has not been checked for almost 4 years for randomness. And doesnt have to be because they no longer reside on US soil. So here we are a nice random fair poker site that started earning 5000 bucks an hour (something most people would be happy with) has now become a giant. Earning thousands per hour and hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. No longer located in the US and no longer subject to testing.  

 

Now please ask yourself again "Why would someone risk making an unfair system?" The answer is above.