abwil

There was a site a few years back that openly acknowledged doing exactly what you are saying. I forget the name off the top of my head ... something like hi hand poker. Anyways what the site did was throw away the low cards.

Basically it worked like this. No 2s 3s 4s or 5s were dealt out. Easy to program software to do that, right? Anyways this did generate higher hands obviously, more hands people wanted to play. Anyways the point I'm getting at is even if Merge was to do something like this (which I do not believe to be true) which player gets an advantage by that? If merge or whoever did do something like this it would make more sense for them to do it in cash games where extra rake could be generated. In a freeroll rigging does not make sense, the site could careless who wins and all the money generated is already done. Ironically enough its in the freerolls and micro tourneys where the "its rigged" nonsense is most prevalent.