I am the Unluckiest player ever

[9Style]

I'm that guy who gets stastically good hands and still loses, down -5000. Taught me never to go to a casino.

[whiteriverpro]

I'd still go to the caino this is not a good simulation of poker. Example,
The probability of a four of a kind in seven cards is 0.00168067, and I've made it 8 times in less than 7000 hands. It's a nice game but don't confuse it with real poker. How many times have you seen it flop three of a kind, board a four card flush or straight versus when you deal real cards..

[MrBananaGrabber]

Originally posted by whiteriverpro:

I'd still go to the caino this is not a good simulation of poker. Example,
The probability of a four of a kind in seven cards is 0.00168067, and I've made it 8 times in less than 7000 hands. It's a nice game but don't confuse it with real poker. How many times have you seen it flop three of a kind, board a four card flush or straight versus when you deal real cards..

The only way to stop the evil rigged system is to always keep your tinfoil hat on, and never play when there are planes flying over your house.
The reptilian shapeshifters are rigging the game as part of their domination of Earth!!!111


' We do not shuffle the deck. That is, we don't take an ordered deck of 52 cards and randomize the order of all 52 cards in the deck. Instead, we randomly choose a card from the deck each time we need a card.

The game server has a RNG for choosing cards for the high card deal and the community cards, plus another six RNGs for the six seats for choosing player hole cards. These seven RNGs are shared among all games running on the game server. The main RNG is initialized at game server startup. The seat RNGs are initialized each time a player is added to that seat number on any table on the server, using a random number generated with the main RNG. Thus entropy is introduced by the timing of players being added to tables, and by the interaction of multiple tables drawing cards at different times throughout the hands. We also don't start each hand with an ordered deck - we leave the table's deck in its unordered state from the previous hands, which adds more entropy.

The RNGs are instances of .Net System.Random.

We have done testing with a game server playing 2 billion hands across several tables and found that the resulting data very precisely matches the mathematical probabilities for 7-card poker hands.'


http://www.prominencepoker.com/index.php?/forums/topic/2638-deck-shuffling-clarification-it-doesnt-seem-random/

[Captain Pothead]

This sounds like how slot machines work. Maybe Im wrong..dunno.

[Ace]

Originally posted by 21Blackjack:

I'm that guy who gets stastically good hands and still loses, down -5000. Taught me never to go to a casino.

Welcome to the club. I actually feel I play worse poker now than I used to before playing prominence poker due to watching so many constant patterns within the game over time and changing my playstyle accordingly. Has it helped! not atall. Its just a game though & still fun.

You still have a good chance of winning as much as losing, so stick with it.

[floWError]

I agree with ACE, you pick up a lot of poor habits in this game because in all honesty you can never replicate a real money game within an environment without real money.
Here are some tendencies you'll see plenty of:
Constant limping, and then calling raises of 3x BB around the table since no one feels like folding 1 BB with their holding. Eventually one player will flop a good hand or the best hand will win. The best hand feels cheated if he loses, and the bad hand winning will encourage poor play. In real life, the bad hand player, if consistently doing this will eventually go broke, but here the discouragement isn't too much of an issue since it's not real money. In fact, if you are on a lucky streak you can win a lot by constantly seeing the flop.

I really wish people play more tourney as the play money ring games are a waste of time.

[maxie]

Originally posted by floWError:

I agree with ACE, you pick up a lot of poor habits in this game because in all honesty you can never replicate a real money game within an environment without real money.
Here are some tendencies you'll see plenty of:
Constant limping, and then calling raises of 3x BB around the table since no one feels like folding 1 BB with their holding. Eventually one player will flop a good hand or the best hand will win. The best hand feels cheated if he loses, and the bad hand winning will encourage poor play. In real life, the bad hand player, if consistently doing this will eventually go broke, but here the discouragement isn't too much of an issue since it's not real money. In fact, if you are on a lucky streak you can win a lot by constantly seeing the flop.

I really wish people play more tourney as the play money ring games are a waste of time.

Exactly

[whiteriverpro]

You can say all you want but the flops, aren't realistic. I had over 800,000 hand histories from full ring games and another couple hundred thousand from 6 max, real money games on PS. I've seen a game or two.

[Scruxx]

Dude and you never got the idea that the pokerstars engine is rigged ^^ ?! I stopped playing there a long time ago, its obvisiously that the pokerstars engine is made for a lot of action, hundreds of pockets in one hour, THAT is not normal! I think this engine here feels far more realistic compared to real life poker. There are evenenings i dont get anything and evenings i win a lot, just as in real life.

[whiteriverpro]

count the number of four card straight/flushes on the board, then count the number of trips that flop.

[floWError]

Originally posted by whiteriverpro:

You can say all you want but the flops, aren't realistic. I had over 800,000 hand histories from full ring games and another couple hundred thousand from 6 max, real money games on PS. I've seen a game or two.

Just curious, how are you able to extract hand histories from this game? Are you using an external app or doing this manually?
If you are exerting such effort on this game, then I agree that you should quit this game and use that time on something else. I'm not kidding, with that much effort you could succeed in something else besides a play money game.

[whiteriverpro]

They will never give you histories for this game, I've keep a track of tables manually, but that''s a lot of work.