If that ain't rigged, I dunno what is
I wouldn't go as far as calling it "rigged", but JokerStars sure know how to deliver those "pure Hollywood" cold decks.
Like two examples that I witnessed....
Limit Omaha. 3 players. Player 1 flops top set of As, Player 2 flops bottom set of Js on a Ac Qc Jc flop.
Turn card....well it was the case J (obviously)
River card....a blank
Player 3 for some reason was calling every bet, raise and re-raise on all 3 streets while Players 1 and 2 were engaging in their own private
cock-measuring contest. Well I say private, I was one of the other 7 players watching this "contest". I was thinking to myself, "ah poor fellow -
he just can't let go of his flopped flush even though he knows he is getting beat by at least one full house. And I'm pretty sure the rest of the table
were thinking the exact same thing. Sure enough, it gets to showdown and Player 3 shows his flush....
which contained the Kc and Tc.....he only flopped the bloody royal and never bet or raised once the whole way. Talk about slowrolling lol.
Shame it was a freeroll tournament though. But it was quite funny.
Example 2.
Watching a friend play limit deuce to seven triple draw. Cash table with only 3 players sitting. All three are at the third and final draw and they all draw 1 card each.
Capped betting, everyone raised at some point.
Showdown....
76532 (third nuts), 76432 (second nuts) and 75432 (stone cold nuts).
A guy at a 3 player table with the 3rd best possible hand that you can get in that game doesn't even finish a poor 2nd in the hand.
No wonder I stuck to playing tournaments. The decks at the cash tables just felt like they were "juiced" or something.
Then there was one famous hand I read about involving someone called "TillerMan". I think he was from Glasgow.
He's playing at a $5/10 NLHE table and has AA. Everyone folds round to him, where he limps from the small blind. Big blind checks. Heads up.
Tillerman flops quad Aces and checks. BB checks.
Turn brings a flush draw. BB bets $20, Tillerman raises to $260. BB calls.
River....puts out a possible flush.
Tillerman bets $600. BB goes allin for a further $1560. Tillerman calls.
BB rivered the royal. Tillerman flops quads and slow plays it the perfect way to get paid, but gets royally shafted for $2430 instead.
The 2 hands in the blinds, who also just happened to have the 2 biggest stacks at the table. You couldn't make it up.
