Cheating Online
Online poker has had its share of cheating going on, and many an online casino have developed proactive methods to prevent this. It’s a natural occurrence in any kind of game where something of value is at risk to see people trying to bend the rules in their favor. Vegas casinos have to deal with this daily, and now that the gambling phenomenon has reached the internet, online casinos and online poker rooms have to do the same.
And there are always the paranoids. The people who expect that the casinos are trying to rip them off. Nearly every single time these claims come from either a) someone who lost their ass and is seeking retribution and blames the casino rather than themselves for having no idea how to play b) people trolling message boards who have a vendetta against gambling as a moral issue c) a competitor from another online casino whose profit margin is much lower than the one their badmouthing. d) People who are truly wacko and who shouldn’t be playing poker anyway and instead need to be medicated for paranoid schizophrenia.
That being said, let’s explore some of the unfounded claims that are brought against online casinos.
The casinos tend to create flops that are more actionable. That is, they deliberately try to produce hands where a lot of people will play.
This is utter nonsense. When you look at the rake structure of most casinos, you see that the majority of them cap their rake at a maximum amount. Any hand which exceeds this is not profitable for the casino. Let’s look at it this way. The maximum rake is 10 dollars or 10% whichever one is lower. Two players have total bets of 100 dollars apiece. That’s t 200 in the pot. The casino has capped their rake to 10 dollars. So, 10 goes to the casino ,and 190 to the winner. In another hand two players have bets totaling 2000 dollars. Again, because of the rake structure, the casino takes 10 dollars, an the winning player takes 1990. The casino doesn’t see any more profit from a larger hand. It makes no sense that they would create action flops or anything like that because that would hurt their revenue, as more players would be going broke and busted out in a shorter amount of hands.
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