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How many players play on Merge? I do daily and sometimes i have awesome runs where ill be ahead going into the flop and just can NOT get outdrawn. Other days.. give me AA, KK, QQ, JJ and any two cards for that matter, and my opponents WILL win. How ever and whatever they need to catch, consider it hooked! A friend of mine and I both play online and live. The last couple days have been ugly online. We started to do a study to find out how unrealistic ONLINE poker is. Im not saying its rigged, although some days i think it is like we all probably do, but the percentages of hands beating the underdogs is way lower online than live. I.E. AK vs AQ. AK will win roughly 77% of the time in a live game. Online, give me the bigger ace and i promise you, the weaker will catch.

I rant a LOT, as some of you may have been noticing. But we're just a little too tired of the unrealistic crap we have been seeing on Merge. Everyone seems to think the same thoughts. "Rigged"

Anyways, we're actually conducting this study and should have some solid numbers after a few weeks. We need to get a hold of some big tournaments hand history and compare them to a live game and so on and so on.

THANK YOU! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has realized this.  Multiple times I would be a >75% favor to win and then lose to a flush draw or high pair on the river.  As of now I left the Merge Network and just focus on Bovada

OrangeJuice--

I played live last night with some friends and we all talked about this. There were of cours some all in moves and the types of hands that won WERE in the lead pre flop. We all had some good laughs simply because its different online.

Its an interesting topic, Online poker vs Live and Im far from talking about it