honestly, shit happens in gambling whether its live or not, I've played a lot of online stuff, and luckily I'm actually up on it overall (mostly betfair zero stuff), made on over 90% of times I've played it - dont get me wrong, I admit this is just pure luck!
Thinking that something is rigged just because you lost is a poor excuse, you just havent got lucky imo.... (exception, dodgy independant arcade machines :P )
Good blackjack sites?
Sure shit happens in a casino – but I suspect not as often as online.
My point is that there is opportunity to cheat with online casino’s – if theres opportunity then sooner or later someone will take it no? In a real casino you see the 5 packs of cards opened and shuffled regularly. If shit happens then that is just bad luck. In the virtual world?? Hmmmmmmmmm.
How are the cards in online blackjack sorted anyway? Does the sorting emulate what happens in a real casino ie are there 260 cards the order of which gets shuffled regularly? You never see it saying “shuffling”. I thought at one time the king of hearts was coming up far too often - especially paired with other pictures on the bankers side!! ;-)
My point is that there is opportunity to cheat with online casino’s – if theres opportunity then sooner or later someone will take it no? In a real casino you see the 5 packs of cards opened and shuffled regularly. If shit happens then that is just bad luck. In the virtual world?? Hmmmmmmmmm.
How are the cards in online blackjack sorted anyway? Does the sorting emulate what happens in a real casino ie are there 260 cards the order of which gets shuffled regularly? You never see it saying “shuffling”. I thought at one time the king of hearts was coming up far too often - especially paired with other pictures on the bankers side!! ;-)
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Cardinal Sin
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I'm not doubting that the opportunity is there to cheat the player - nor am I saying that there might not be some people unscrupulous enough to do so.
What I am saying is that in order to make online gambling rigged takes quite a lot of effort in order to disguise this fact from auditors.
Furthermore, if these online casinos / bookies wanted to rob the punter through lower-than-legal percentages, it would take quite a few people to do it.... after all, the people who could benefit from the increased profit are not the same people with the technical know-how to make it possible. All it would take is one disgruntled employee to expose this (in the way that happened to the premium rate quiz phone-ins)... However, this has never happened - to my knowledge.
Companies like Bill Hill and Ladbrokes are well-established and very profitable betting firms. To risk their good reputation on robbing a few extra quid on blackjack and roulette to illegally boost their profits would not make sense. These games are already guaranteed money-makers, and a lot of the people playing these games are chronically addicted to gambling, meaning that sooner-or-later, they are going to lose anyway.
What I am saying is that in order to make online gambling rigged takes quite a lot of effort in order to disguise this fact from auditors.
Furthermore, if these online casinos / bookies wanted to rob the punter through lower-than-legal percentages, it would take quite a few people to do it.... after all, the people who could benefit from the increased profit are not the same people with the technical know-how to make it possible. All it would take is one disgruntled employee to expose this (in the way that happened to the premium rate quiz phone-ins)... However, this has never happened - to my knowledge.
Companies like Bill Hill and Ladbrokes are well-established and very profitable betting firms. To risk their good reputation on robbing a few extra quid on blackjack and roulette to illegally boost their profits would not make sense. These games are already guaranteed money-makers, and a lot of the people playing these games are chronically addicted to gambling, meaning that sooner-or-later, they are going to lose anyway.