They must be poker room RNGs, because the RNG at fultilt is as random as the order of the days in a week.
And i must be an influencer, or phychic cos i can read the game/hand patterns, and i can exploit it.
I started playing there in free play, played around 1500 freerolls over a couple of years, in freerolls you get to see lots of hole cards, holecards of multiple players in the same all-in etc etc.
I started to notice patterns, i started noticing how the game was mainly built around the blinds, it was near impossible for a non-depositor to win cash in their freerolls, i eventually worked out a way to weasel 50c out of a 2000+ entry freeroll, by building a very very large stack early, and sitting out, and just blinding out into an early cash position.
So i now have my 50c, entered a 50c tourney, 70 players, won it, by avoiding the software traps, now i have $10.
Entered another, this time 130 people in it, i won that one aswell again just by avoiding the software traps, and playing tight aggressive ABC poker.
So now im flying $40+ in only 2 cash tourneys, so then i entered the 2k garranteed for $2 and i final tabled that, so now i had over $100 in the account, and to be honest i thought sticking to micro stakes i will achieve my target of $2k in the required time.
The £2k was to buy an entry into the Isle of Man EPT, which carries around 400k sterling in prize money, and is played around 6 miles up the road from me, in early october, my neighbour 2 doors down had freerolled his way to a seat in 2013, he lucked out with no prize money.
After talking to him in april this year about him freerolling another seat i thought i would have a bash at it myself, i didnt get there, but my neighbour did, only this year he satelited his ticket, and this year he finished 3rd, for £35k. [ David Hill poker ] google it.
Now i played poker back in 2002/3 intensely for 10 months, i always had around 40 dollars inplay all the time 3/4/5 tabling $11 sit and go's, for 10 hours a day, and for 10 months i finished in the top 10 sit and go players on that site [betfair], the site was under the cryto logic umbrella at the time, and after all that, i still couldnt beat the 10% rake, so i turned to tourney play, i used the profit from 10 months of sit and go's to enter the sunday quarter of a million three times [$210], and i won 5k at my 3rd attempt, [ manxman betfiar cryptologic ] google or shark it.
After that i withdrew my cash and quit online poker, even then the sites were getting more and more fish-friendly, they knew they had to keep their fish in the game.
However like with anything else you enjoy, it is hard to go cold turkey on, and i downloaded different sites over the years, played freerolls, saw lots of holecards, and witnessed the same shit over and over and over, watched the flop on merge produce aces on the flop 30%+ more times than would happen randomly, over 1000s of hands, feeding the fish with their ace rag etc, same as fultilt flopping 3 same suited cards on average every 12 flops, over 1000s of tourney hands, or just opening 4 random tables, then after an hour or so, 50/60 hands per table, running thru the hand histories and logging the actual one siuted flops against random expectation, which is one in 20.
With fulltilt, its clear to me, that the algorithm is utilising internal player stats to determine the outcome in many, but not all hands.
The sole aim of fultilt is to keep the money moving from account to account, to keep poor players with piss poor stats from going broke for aslong as possible, they may not redeposit again.
So my story with fulltilt above ends like this, i got to 200 dollars from nothing in a week, then i just bounced along, my account bounced up and down between $200 and $150 for around 300 cash tournies, then playing the same 1/2 dollar tourneys against the same players for around the next 5 weeks i coudnt get a key hand to hold up when the crunch time in each tourney arrived.
It was brutal and it was blatant, the algorithm WAS just redistributing my profit back to the player pool, and there was ZERO i could do about it, i kept thinking day after day that it would flick me a 1000 or so hands with positive 'variance', not a chance, just more brutal bad beats, then after i was beaten with a flopped straight flush from the big blind i thought fuck you and uninstalled it, there was still $43 in the account.
[ i had 45 spades .. flop 678 spades .. river 10 spades, mug-fish is holding pocket 99s, with 9 spades and had just limped from early position pre flop ] another brutal setup to a guy 22k down on the site in 5 years.
You have to sharkscope them, and avoid getting in large against losing players, which is ofcourse the anti-thesis of poker, its ok when you are a new depositor, you run like god, and straight aggressive abc poker will do, but then you will become part of the cycle.
To demonstrate my point, i play tilt under manxman21, i re-installed tilt on friday, after 5 weeks of not even having the site on my comp at 7.00pm i played the vecoleraptor $3.3 tourney, a multi-entry tourney, 700+ people, with 1200+ seats between them.
At 3am in the morning i was heads up against a guy -14k in 3 years, i had 3.7 mil in chips against his 1.2 mil, at around 5.30am i was beaten, the difference in prize money was over $350+ and i wanted the $900, instead i got second for $538.
I knew after 20 mins of watching the cards in that first tourney i played on my re-installation, that my account was now a 'new account', i knew this because my bonuses had all expired, i also figured that my crunch hands would hold up, orI would be the one getting the runner runner or miracle river if i got all my chips in bad, so i was sharkscoping the players, and getting my chips in against other profitable accounts, only semi bluffing gold account or higher players when i had drawable hands, and playing good hands strongly, by check raising the flop and taking over the betting when in a hand.
There is nothing, zero, zilch, nada, random about online poker, its not a scam either, its not rigged, its the same for everyone, you dont have to be anything other than proficient in ABC poker and realise that the site you are playing on wants all the money in rake, and it will do whatever it can to''level'' the skills advantages/dis-advantages between its clients.
The place is riddled with 'robin hood' house bots, they take[beat] profitable players funds, and redistribute them to losing players.
On monday it will again be uninstalled, as later im going to play in another $2.20 multi entrie tourney, tommorow i will take I.D. to their offices here on the island and ask for a cheque for $500, i will leave the rest of the funds in the account, and in another5/6 weeks i will have another bash, and im confident that i will be 'new account' rated, and run good again.
All the above is verifiable with a simple sharkscope search.
then consider that the concepts of coincidence, accidents, synchronicity and yes, aprophenia may be butting heads and you just have to sort it all out on your own.
Well, whaddaya know.