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For those wondering, yes, this was an all in on the turn. This donkey called me with two overs on the board on the turn all in with two outs to hit the river.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Americas Cardroom is so bad...
Yes. This has been happening all day. Literally all day. Three outers or less on the river, after of course, the long river hesitation. I knew this card was coming before it hit. As soon as the computer "delayed" dealing the river to think about the card. Poof there is was. Some people say "ahh well its poker, it happens." Yeah I agree it does. But if it happens for these people, it would have to at least sometimes happen for me right? Right?? Never does however.
For those wondering, yes, this was an all in on the turn. This donkey called me with two overs on the board on the turn all in with two outs to hit the river.
For those wondering, yes, this was an all in on the turn. This donkey called me with two overs on the board on the turn all in with two outs to hit the river.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Americas Cardroom is AWFUL
Doyles Room was a great experience and offered what seemed like real card play. I had months of experience on there and then........it was bought by Americas Cardroom. And everything changed rapidly.
Americas Cardroom from day one of the conversion is a complete and total different experience. It is just plain awful. It is on par with Full Tilt Poker Awful (Full Tilt which was bought by French Investors and is back up and running by the way, while American players have not received their money back and probably never will). From the first day that this site started the beats have been unrandom and unrealistic. It has become like FT poker, I can call what cards are coming before they are dealt and know when a bad beat is coming. Many of the same factors observed on FT are back into play on the site. If you are thinking of making an investment on a site, dont choose this site, you may as well throw your money in the trash.
Some of the same observed traits have reappeared:
- There is the dreaded river hesitation where you can tell the computer had to "think" about what card to deal to beat your hand which was ahead at the time. This hesitation is clear and evident as the card takes 1-2 seconds longer to fall than other cards and will always, always, result in a bad beat.
- The larger stack of a tourney will hit a bad hand and beat the lower stacks. This happens all the time and the only explanation for it is that this is an easy way for the site to speed up the tourney. On AC this is particular bad right before the rebuys end and right before the money. Usually players tighten up before the money. On this site that tight hand of AA or KK or AK, will inevitably lose to an 83 or 59. I see this happen all the time.
- Simply put the faster the tourney ends the quicker you enter the next tourney and the site makes more money.
- Just like on FT, AC has foreign players that make very very "strange" calls. I will identify them for you here. There locations will be Puerto Ordaz or Caracas. These players are paid players. They fill seats on the site and their play is just plain awful. But heres the thing, they make bad calls, but they usually win, so it is not good to have "bad" players on the site. Right before I started posting this today in a double up tourney I had KK and raised, got reraised by a Caracas player and I went all in. He called me with a 10 6 off suit. Flop is 4710 turn J river (with hesitation) 10.
- Ask yourself, how many people would call all in a $30 buy in tourney with a 10 6 off and expect to win? The answer is no one. No one makes that call unless they know they are going to win. Something is very off with these players that have locations of Puerto Ordaz or Caracas. If you play on the site and you dont believe this, review everyones location at your table, I guarantee at least one person has this location at every table. And watch their play. You will notice they always win hands in which they were way behind.
The really odd thing is, they are almost always at the final table as well. Makes good business sense. If you pay players to play poker, it seems pretty simple that you would allow them to win so that the winnings would in turn go back to Americas Cardroom.
My recommendation. Stay away from AC. Far away. Online poker will be legalized soon as the IRS needs money. Wait for a legitimate site, AC is as rigged as FT.
Americas Cardroom from day one of the conversion is a complete and total different experience. It is just plain awful. It is on par with Full Tilt Poker Awful (Full Tilt which was bought by French Investors and is back up and running by the way, while American players have not received their money back and probably never will). From the first day that this site started the beats have been unrandom and unrealistic. It has become like FT poker, I can call what cards are coming before they are dealt and know when a bad beat is coming. Many of the same factors observed on FT are back into play on the site. If you are thinking of making an investment on a site, dont choose this site, you may as well throw your money in the trash.
Some of the same observed traits have reappeared:
- There is the dreaded river hesitation where you can tell the computer had to "think" about what card to deal to beat your hand which was ahead at the time. This hesitation is clear and evident as the card takes 1-2 seconds longer to fall than other cards and will always, always, result in a bad beat.
- The larger stack of a tourney will hit a bad hand and beat the lower stacks. This happens all the time and the only explanation for it is that this is an easy way for the site to speed up the tourney. On AC this is particular bad right before the rebuys end and right before the money. Usually players tighten up before the money. On this site that tight hand of AA or KK or AK, will inevitably lose to an 83 or 59. I see this happen all the time.
- Simply put the faster the tourney ends the quicker you enter the next tourney and the site makes more money.
- Just like on FT, AC has foreign players that make very very "strange" calls. I will identify them for you here. There locations will be Puerto Ordaz or Caracas. These players are paid players. They fill seats on the site and their play is just plain awful. But heres the thing, they make bad calls, but they usually win, so it is not good to have "bad" players on the site. Right before I started posting this today in a double up tourney I had KK and raised, got reraised by a Caracas player and I went all in. He called me with a 10 6 off suit. Flop is 4710 turn J river (with hesitation) 10.
- Ask yourself, how many people would call all in a $30 buy in tourney with a 10 6 off and expect to win? The answer is no one. No one makes that call unless they know they are going to win. Something is very off with these players that have locations of Puerto Ordaz or Caracas. If you play on the site and you dont believe this, review everyones location at your table, I guarantee at least one person has this location at every table. And watch their play. You will notice they always win hands in which they were way behind.
The really odd thing is, they are almost always at the final table as well. Makes good business sense. If you pay players to play poker, it seems pretty simple that you would allow them to win so that the winnings would in turn go back to Americas Cardroom.
My recommendation. Stay away from AC. Far away. Online poker will be legalized soon as the IRS needs money. Wait for a legitimate site, AC is as rigged as FT.
Doyles Room Review
Havent posted in quite a while. But had to get some play time in before I could post any thoughts. Well here is the deal. My play time on Doyles Room seemed 100% legitimate and actually random. I saw good hands win the majority of the time and there wasnt a whole bunch of "strange" calls. That being said Doyles Room doesnt exist any longer and the change to Americas Cardroom is whole different story...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Well I make that lost post and all of a sudden this happens many times
So I take it back. Doyles room is the same as everywhere else. I mean 4th place gets 50 bucks. I am sitting back and chilling and this happens. This CANNOT and I repeat CANNOT be random. On the bubble...BS.
Doyles Room Review
Doyles room is better than Full Tilt Poker or Pokerstars could ever wish to be. Thats my personal opinion. The one flaw of the site is that there arent that many people on at one time. The positives however are:
- The site actually seems to play the closest to real poker I have ever played online.
- Tourneys and cash games feel more real as well. Dont expect to get in a tournament where only 60 people are registered and have it be completed in one hour. Its not going to happen. You will be playing this tourney for 3-4 hours to win. Just like real poker. Compare this to Full Tilt where you could expect a tournament with 600 people to take maybe 3 hours.
- Beats. I am not going to say I havent had my share of bad beats on this site. I have. BUT and here is the big BUT, it happens far less often and with far less craziness than on other sites. If I push a set of 5's after the flop and someone else push's a flush draw I am going to lose that sometimes. Its expected. However, if like on FT I have AA and get called by someone who didnt even hit a pair on the flop. The game has not runner runnered me.......yet.
So what are the negatives to getting on this site. The "fake but not fake" players as I like to call them. There is an ever growing number of players whose names start with VE or BKR. In reading many posts on the internet and researching it appears that these players are all from South America and actually get paid to play online poker. They get staked and get paid a hourly wage (something like 20 cents an hour which is actually probably a decent salary). There winnings if any all then go back to the companies or people that have hired them to play on the sites. If you log on in the early morning or late at night you may literally sit at a 9 person table that looks like this:
VE12345
VE56709
VE54677
VE67543
BKR1234
BKR7987
BKR5632
Tomscat
and me
And it sucks because you dont know if these players truly are all sitting together and sharing hands and cards. Thankfully most of them are pretty bad and get all there money in the pot with the worst hand. So its quite easy to pull decent earning from these guys. Where it gets bad is in rebuy tourneys when they can just keep pushing all in hoping to get lucky and rebuy when they go out. If anyone knows anymore about these strange players let me know.
Since I have not been posting very often and Doyles rooms last hand part of the software is horrible to get screenshots to post on here. I will give a guy a shout who owns this blog:
http://www.thebiglaydown.blogspot.com/
He seems to post a lot and has pictures of hot asian chicks. So enjoy as it looks like he posts everyday.
- The site actually seems to play the closest to real poker I have ever played online.
- Tourneys and cash games feel more real as well. Dont expect to get in a tournament where only 60 people are registered and have it be completed in one hour. Its not going to happen. You will be playing this tourney for 3-4 hours to win. Just like real poker. Compare this to Full Tilt where you could expect a tournament with 600 people to take maybe 3 hours.
- Beats. I am not going to say I havent had my share of bad beats on this site. I have. BUT and here is the big BUT, it happens far less often and with far less craziness than on other sites. If I push a set of 5's after the flop and someone else push's a flush draw I am going to lose that sometimes. Its expected. However, if like on FT I have AA and get called by someone who didnt even hit a pair on the flop. The game has not runner runnered me.......yet.
So what are the negatives to getting on this site. The "fake but not fake" players as I like to call them. There is an ever growing number of players whose names start with VE or BKR. In reading many posts on the internet and researching it appears that these players are all from South America and actually get paid to play online poker. They get staked and get paid a hourly wage (something like 20 cents an hour which is actually probably a decent salary). There winnings if any all then go back to the companies or people that have hired them to play on the sites. If you log on in the early morning or late at night you may literally sit at a 9 person table that looks like this:
VE12345
VE56709
VE54677
VE67543
BKR1234
BKR7987
BKR5632
Tomscat
and me
And it sucks because you dont know if these players truly are all sitting together and sharing hands and cards. Thankfully most of them are pretty bad and get all there money in the pot with the worst hand. So its quite easy to pull decent earning from these guys. Where it gets bad is in rebuy tourneys when they can just keep pushing all in hoping to get lucky and rebuy when they go out. If anyone knows anymore about these strange players let me know.
Since I have not been posting very often and Doyles rooms last hand part of the software is horrible to get screenshots to post on here. I will give a guy a shout who owns this blog:
http://www.thebiglaydown.blogspot.com/
He seems to post a lot and has pictures of hot asian chicks. So enjoy as it looks like he posts everyday.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Doyles Room
My first day on Doyles Room. I must say I was pleasantly suprised. I really like the software. Its easy to use and intuitive. It really honestly and truly feels more like real poker. There is no crazy hands where three people are all in. The pace of the game is much slower and the cards feel real. Here is a highlight of my day in which I made a decent amount of money. This hand is great though:
Thats right I called it.....Full Tilt is Bankrupt
Dont expect to get your money back. I called this two weeks ago. Here are some links. The main question is what did they do with our money? A company should only be allowed to invest PROFITS. Not the players buy ins. This is absolutely ridiculous. I hope they go after the owners of the site as well. Howard Lederer behind bars. That would make me feel absolutely great!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42906061/ns/business-us_business/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/full-tilt-filing-bankruptcy-monday-1037341/
http://www.rgc2005.com/2011/05/full-tilt-broke-absolute-and-ultimate.html
So now that we have that out of the way. US Players will probably not be able to get their funding back. Howard Lederer is hiding in some hole somewhere outside of the United States. He should, he is an absolute thief. Full Tilt took our money as soon as we deposited it. Essentially, you were never going to get paid. So much for the poker sites make so much money they dont have to cheat theory.
If you won a large tournament you would have never received your money. If you did, they would have paid you with other peoples deposits. Forget them. Lock them up. What they did was illegal. Speaking of......
A quick article for you to review:
A major university recently completed a study of the on-line poker site FullTiltPoker.Net, the “free” side of Full Tilt Poker.
http://www.railbirds.com/blog/335777/the-truth-about-fulltilt-repost.html
Over the course of the one-year study students entered into, but did not play in, over 10,000 9-person Sit & Go No Limit Hold’em 250 (play money) tournaments. Player stats were recorded, and later analyzed. Over 57,000 individual hands made up the study sample.
The study revealed that the dealing of cards at Full Tilt Poker is not random. The site has a tendency to deal a statistically abnormal amount of “big” hands, including straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kind, etc.
The odds of “hitting” a particular hand when seven cards are dealt from a 52-card deck are easily calculated. We won’t go into the gory mathematical details, but you are certainly invited to look them up for yourself if you don’t believe us.
For example, when seven cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, the odds of hitting a royal flush are approximately 500,000 to 1. That’s why you don’t see very many of them in the real world, let alone get one yourself. Yet, on Full Tilt we saw a royal flush in approximately 1 out of every 4,432 hands dealt, over 1,000 times as often as statistical probability would dictate. Several of our players were dealt more than one royal flush over the course of the study.
Oddly, a non-royal straight flush came up in 1 out of 7,203 hands during our study. With a random deal, the probability of hitting any kind of non-royal straight flush is approximately 83,000 to 1. That probability is multiplied by a factor of 10 at Full Tilt.
The most common winning hand in our tournaments at Full Tilt was 2 pairs. It came up on average 1 out of every 13 hands, about twice as often as statistical probability would dictate. With a random seven-card deal from a 52-card deck, a 2-pair hand should come up every 21 hands on average.
Likewise, all the other “big hands” occurred far more often on Full Tilt than one would expect from a truly random (and honest) deal. A straight came up in 1 out of every 54 hands dealt. Normal odds for a straight are 1 in every 283 seven-card hands. Likewise, a flush came up in 1 out of every 54 hands, the same as straights. In the real world, we would expect to see a flush in approximately 1 out of every 500 hands, or about half as often as a straight. On Full Tilt straights and flushes come up with almost equal frequency, yet another statistical anomaly.
Interestingly, the most common straights on Full Tilt are the ace high straight and the five high straight. They came up more than four times as often as any other kind of straight. This, in and of itself, represents another glaring statistical anomaly.
Hands with three-of-a-kind were observed in 1 out of every 27 hands, almost twice the 1 out of 47 hands one expects to see in the real world.
A full house came up on average 1 in every 71 hands dealt. This far exceeds the 1 in every 694 hands you will see in the real world.
Hands with four-of-a-kind occurred on Full Tilt in one 1 of every 281 hands, far more often then the 1 out of every 4,166 hands one expects from an random deal.
We can only conclude that Full Tilt does not deal cards randomly, but is programmed to produce big hands. Perhaps this makes for more “exciting” play, but it is less than honest.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42906061/ns/business-us_business/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/full-tilt-filing-bankruptcy-monday-1037341/
http://www.rgc2005.com/2011/05/full-tilt-broke-absolute-and-ultimate.html
So now that we have that out of the way. US Players will probably not be able to get their funding back. Howard Lederer is hiding in some hole somewhere outside of the United States. He should, he is an absolute thief. Full Tilt took our money as soon as we deposited it. Essentially, you were never going to get paid. So much for the poker sites make so much money they dont have to cheat theory.
If you won a large tournament you would have never received your money. If you did, they would have paid you with other peoples deposits. Forget them. Lock them up. What they did was illegal. Speaking of......
A quick article for you to review:
A major university recently completed a study of the on-line poker site FullTiltPoker.Net, the “free” side of Full Tilt Poker.
http://www.railbirds.com/blog/335777/the-truth-about-fulltilt-repost.html
Over the course of the one-year study students entered into, but did not play in, over 10,000 9-person Sit & Go No Limit Hold’em 250 (play money) tournaments. Player stats were recorded, and later analyzed. Over 57,000 individual hands made up the study sample.
The study revealed that the dealing of cards at Full Tilt Poker is not random. The site has a tendency to deal a statistically abnormal amount of “big” hands, including straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kind, etc.
The odds of “hitting” a particular hand when seven cards are dealt from a 52-card deck are easily calculated. We won’t go into the gory mathematical details, but you are certainly invited to look them up for yourself if you don’t believe us.
For example, when seven cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, the odds of hitting a royal flush are approximately 500,000 to 1. That’s why you don’t see very many of them in the real world, let alone get one yourself. Yet, on Full Tilt we saw a royal flush in approximately 1 out of every 4,432 hands dealt, over 1,000 times as often as statistical probability would dictate. Several of our players were dealt more than one royal flush over the course of the study.
Oddly, a non-royal straight flush came up in 1 out of 7,203 hands during our study. With a random deal, the probability of hitting any kind of non-royal straight flush is approximately 83,000 to 1. That probability is multiplied by a factor of 10 at Full Tilt.
The most common winning hand in our tournaments at Full Tilt was 2 pairs. It came up on average 1 out of every 13 hands, about twice as often as statistical probability would dictate. With a random seven-card deal from a 52-card deck, a 2-pair hand should come up every 21 hands on average.
Likewise, all the other “big hands” occurred far more often on Full Tilt than one would expect from a truly random (and honest) deal. A straight came up in 1 out of every 54 hands dealt. Normal odds for a straight are 1 in every 283 seven-card hands. Likewise, a flush came up in 1 out of every 54 hands, the same as straights. In the real world, we would expect to see a flush in approximately 1 out of every 500 hands, or about half as often as a straight. On Full Tilt straights and flushes come up with almost equal frequency, yet another statistical anomaly.
Interestingly, the most common straights on Full Tilt are the ace high straight and the five high straight. They came up more than four times as often as any other kind of straight. This, in and of itself, represents another glaring statistical anomaly.
Hands with three-of-a-kind were observed in 1 out of every 27 hands, almost twice the 1 out of 47 hands one expects to see in the real world.
A full house came up on average 1 in every 71 hands dealt. This far exceeds the 1 in every 694 hands you will see in the real world.
Hands with four-of-a-kind occurred on Full Tilt in one 1 of every 281 hands, far more often then the 1 out of every 4,166 hands one expects from an random deal.
We can only conclude that Full Tilt does not deal cards randomly, but is programmed to produce big hands. Perhaps this makes for more “exciting” play, but it is less than honest.
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