Quote Originally Posted by cracicot View Post

The game is skewed to encourage the buying of tokens. That is fact.
Spot on!
I used to play a lot on FullTilt before they got scr*wed, I won a lot of money over a period of three months, but in the end lost it in less than a day. What happened? Well... I used to play several tables at a time -3 or 4. So this particular day I got the pocket aces 7 times, went all-in preflop, had a sucker pay up each and every time and... lost all 7 times, including to hands like QTs, JJ and, most notably, the AKo. We flopped a J,8,2 rainbow... but he sucked out really hard- a Q on the turn and a T on the river. It turned out that all the online casinos had their software "fixed", so that many players could receive decent hands and stay in the game for as long as they can... so that the casinos could cash in the rake. I have never played poker online since and I find that it's a lot more difficult to fix the game in real life. Not to mention the excitement of facing your opponent face to face.
So my point is- where there's software and money to be made from this software, the outcome will always be the same- the players will lose and the house will make money out of them. If you really like the game and can afford it- buy tokens. If you really like it and can't afford tokens- just play the game and celebrate every victory over a token player like it's a title. If you don't like or enjoy the game- quit! Simple, right?
GL!