Internet Poker Sites Greed

[pokeraddict]

Please post some of these one time winner usernames.

And silence. That's what I thought.....

[SellingPoker]

hello

i am also one of those players thats pretty sure that Pokerstars uses or used bots in their tournaments!
a few years back i was one of the bigger players there ( The_sherriff ) and i won about $80K in total on Pokerstars and another $100k+ on a few other rooms.

2 tourneys i will never forget and both happened on pokerstars.

1= $500 buy in, approx 560 players joined, i played top poker and managed to get myself in the top 30 when i had AA on the button and raised 2/3 of my stack ( i had 13.200 chips and raised it to 8.800 ) with 1 player that flatcalled the big blind just before me, to my surprise the bigblind stuck all his chips in, the initial caller folds and i call instant.

The BB had 87? with 8.800 from 13.200 chips in the center it think it was very clear that i was commited and would call.

Flop made clear that i was ripped of big time, 776

No normal player that got sofar in the tournament would even think about putting all his chips in with 87 when another player is already over commited!

So i kept following this player ( Bot ) and indeed he won many more very odd hands the same way, but this wasn t the thing that mostly confused me, with 4 players left 3 players ask for a deal but the player i suspected to be a bot never even answered to this request! This player won the tournament and never lost a pot on the final table! I wanted to see if my suspicions had any ground so i tried to follow this player or find out a few thing about him.
1. i looked this player up on various tracking websites but only found that 1 result
2. this player has never even played 1 more hand on Pokerdtars

a few weeks later i noticed the same kind of play in the $200, again i managed to get in the prizes and gather some chips to carry me to big money, when i had Pocket Tens and 2 callers for the Flop, And a nice flop it was! T83 rainbow. i never slowplay so i was first to act and pushed all in, only to get called by J7 ... yes i dont even need to say what happened next do i?
Once again this same player took down the tournament and never played a single game again on Pokerstars!

Thats when i stopped playing at pokerstars even tho i was a big winner and scored very well in the TLB for 3 years running.

Solid proof is impossible to get but i am 200% sure that in both games Pokerstars ripped me of and i suspect that this happened non stop as when me and a few other players started to dig deeper we noticed that about 10% of players that won a big tournament never returned.

Please note that i am talkin about 2003-2006 period and i havent played any serious game at pokerstars sinds then as i took my game to the brick and morter casinos.