Thank you Gattaca for your reply. I heard that they pay people to play, use robots and their RNG may be rigged. It was all second hand. I glad to hear that your first-hand experience is not the case.

Cheers - might give it a go then

Karla

They'd be crazy to rig their random number generator. Too many people would have to be in on it, as it would have to be rigged in a way that benefitted 'their' players. If it got out it would destroy a projected 4 billion dollar asset practically overnight and people would go to prison. Why would they do that when they don't need to?

This sort of rumour is easy to start when you're a weak player who keeps losing and you get disgruntled, that would be my guess.

There are players who use robots, but Party try to detect them and remove the offenders. If someone seems to be too good then you can always leave the table and find another.

Party wouldn't pay people to play, as they have 20,000 people online at any given time, often a lot more. This may have happened in the past when they just started up and hadn't reached critical mass. It's also possibly a misrepresentation of the fact that Party will sometimes give very active players a rebate on their rake and that they pay reload bonuses and other freebies which could be construed as 'paying' someone to play, but only in the way that casinos 'pay' high rollers to play. In other words they give incentives to lure players. I'm all in favour of such incentives!

thanks mate, I'll give em a go then.

karla

Yeh party doesn't need to use robots or have their own 'players'.

Party poker is fine, I play there a few hours a day and know plenty of others who do the same. I don't their RNG is 100% random (I don't think any RNG truly is), but it is close enough and deals a fair game. If something doesn't go someone's way, it's easy to cry rigged instead of realizing their own bad play, or that 99% winners do sometimes lose.

"If someone seems to be too good then you can always leave the table and find another."

Robots aren't very good and nothing you should be worrying about. If someone is playing very well, then they're almost certainly just a very good player.

"as they have 20,000 people online at any given time, often a lot more."

Had over 75k on yesterday, what a goldmine.

Thanks Mr J, good to get some local knowledge.