Do you gamble online?

Every time I post on this site it's a gamble.

No, but life itself is a gamble.

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I play poker online and have had success on multiple different sites over the years. My brother makes five to six figures a year doing it. He actually lives in Vegas now but ironically still prefers to play online.

To answer your question: No, you can't see the real players. Generally just a username and avatar. What exactly are you worried about? Playing against bots? Rigged algorithms?

Bots do exist but are pretty rare and easily detectable anyways. Plus they're really not great at poker—decent enough to turn a profit, but just barely. The value of a bot lies mostly in the sheer volume of hands it can play. They can be exploited by a good human player.

As far as hand rigging goes, I realize some people are adamant this is a fact of online poker. Honestly though, those people just aren't winning players, and would rather not admit that to themselves.

Poker sites provide detailed hand histories, which are constantly being data-mined by players. Thorough analysis would quickly reveal any deviation from the norm, providing hard evidence against any site using a rigged RNG. If any analysis has ever found such proof, I've yet to hear about it.

Online card rooms really have no more reason to rig the game than do brick-and-mortar casinos. Both type of operations are plenty profitable as is.

No, my brother does and I think it’s weird because he’s smart (he’s a computer programmer!) and he should know it’s a rigged system.

I did had many years of playing poker star though. Thinking of it makes me want to jump back on a virtual table. I might even have like a 10$ balance still.

No, I don't participate in any form of gambling. It's a big waste of money.

I play fantasy football in a league and once I tried Draft Kings - didn't care for it for several reasons. That was my one and only time gambling online.

Every fart is a roll of the dice. I don't like to perform without a net. A bird in the hand is worth a stitch in time.

I like to play different games, but a special genre that excites me is shooters, but not any fictional or space-related, namely realistic. For example, I recently downloaded Battlefield 2042 from the pirate bay and got really excited about it. It's just so realistic, I completely felt like someone is in charge of a special unit that is ready for anything. A large selection of weapons, maps, great graphics will not leave anyone indifferent.