Stay well away. These apps have been designed to extract as much money from you S possible, in order to meet their liquidity requirements. You will win only after you’ve just deposited funds into your account, which will be short lived before they drive your account down to 0 again with one bad beat after another, one cooler after another or one missed combo draw on the flop after another.
Their AI technology is designed to monitor the way you play, and then to replicate hands that will ensure action based on how you play certain hands (so if you’re someone who moves all in in a sit and go with medium
Pocket pairs, they’ll deal you medium pocket pairs that will either be outdrawn or that will face an overpaid pre flop. If you’re someone who slow plays big pocket pairs, they’ll flip you a set or you’ll be sat with an overpair and then get outdrawn. For example, assume you slow play AA (as in you min raise this hand pre) and another player plays their draws aggressively, they’ll be dealt for example, A4 clubs. The flop will come 2 clubs, 3 clubs, 5 diamonds - A4 will move all in on the flop and you will call with AA, the turn or river will come club. Maybe you play super tight, and their AI technology expects you to likely fold AA in this scenario, the flop will instead come A diamonds, 3 clubs 7 clubs, the A4 clubs isn’t going anywhere, you’re not going anywhere, A4 moves all in you call, turn or river comes club. It doesn’t matter how tight you play, they adjust the parameters of what’s needed to ensure your account balance is driven to 0 by either enhancing the extent of the cooler (so it may frequently come KK vs AA, if you’re expected to fold nearly any other premium hand pre flop because you’re super tight), or you’ll hit a set on a dry board (77 on 27A rainbow) and the other player, if known to move all in with top pair, goes all in with A7, turn A river A). Unless you simply fold every scenario and allow yourself to be blinded out (in which case they still reach their objective which is to drive your account balance to 0 and thus ensure you deposit more funds to help
Meet liquidity requirements), you’re always going to be caught in this cycle. Trust me, I worked for a competitor with their software, and I know firsthand that this is true. Why do you think new accounts having a higher win rate? To keep them coming back, to get them hooked, to give them a false sense of their own ability and earning potential on the platform - after all these poker platforms only work by having big customer bases to run these big tournaments, frequent sit and go’s etc. And I know what you’ll say, but I’ve seen my favourite poker player make a fortune online…1) delve deeper to see who they are sponsored by, and if there’s any link to the poker platform they’re playing on, many are paid to stream their play online to attract customers. 2) look deeper at their net income on the site, not just their gross earnings, since making £200,000 in tournament revenue isn’t so great when they’ve spent £225,000 in buy in.
If you enjoy poker and want to try making money from it, play it live. Avoid at all costs playing online. You will never beat the technology implemented and you run the risk of destroying your ability to play live (by being convinced every time you have KK someone has AA, etc).
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