In 80/20 situations we saw a little bit of deviation. 8% more often than expected, well within our margin of error. In 60/40 situations PokerStars worked out roughly as expected, favoring the weaker hand only. In coinflip situations PokerStars worked out as expected, with a tiny advantage to the pocket pair of roughly 1.5%. The margin of error for win percentages is +- 1.7%. Finally, we would expect dominating hands to win 71% of the time with 1.1% ending in a tie.
We would expect a high card hand matching neither of the opponent's cards to hold up roughly 59% of the time, with about 1.1% ending in a tie. After reviewing all hands, we would expect the higher of two pocket pairs to hold up 81% of the time and tie about 0.5%. We broke these matchups down and analyzed each. These hands were then grouped into three categories: 80/20 (i.e. Read on to see our methodology.īy using 15 different computers running PokerStars software and each monitoring five tournament tables at once, we were able to isolate nearly 1.4 million hands where two or more players were all in against each other preflop.
We have been monitoring all-in situations at for the past year and we have come to the conclusion that the games at this site are unfair and biased toward poor play. That is how many hands we have tracked on.
