These rumors seem to persist amongst online poker players that the poker rooms are out to cheat players.
No, they really aren’t. There are a number of reasons they couldn’t be, but let’s start at the beginning. Let’s start with you, the player.
Your Hands
Imagine that you are playing Texas Holdem poker online and you catch pocket aces. You would be thrilled, right? Now imagine seeing the hand through and being beaten out by someone who, in your opinion, had no business even playing the hand with their ridiculously low pocket 8’s, yet they caught a third 8 and got lucky. It’s a scenario that happens every day to online poker players.
Another scenario that happens a lot is that people play poker games with more hands per hour online than they do off. So, you might feel like you take more bad beats online than in live games. That’s because you’ll be playing more hands of poker online.
Money
Another consideration is money. First of all, poker websites make millions of dollars legitimately. In fact, the more happy players they have coming back, the more money they make. Thinking that they care about causing you to take one bad beat at a poker table is, well, not sound logic.
Not only that, but you need to think about where the money comes from. The poker websites get a cut of every hand of poker that is played or every tournament entry fee that a player plays. After that, the rest of the money goes to the game winners. The poker websites get the same amount of money, no matter who wins a hand.
