An interesting investigation is ongoing regarding Party Poker and their "fast fold" (zoom) poker game.

Recall that zoom poker formats immediately move you to a new table after you've folded, thus cutting down the wait between hands. This format has been around for about a decade, and has been popular.

A guy named "nostalgic_goldfish", real name Justin, created a Reddit thread accusing Party of intentionally rigging their fast fold games.

Justin claims that, out of 580,000 hands played at fast fold, he got significantly fewer hands than expected in the advantageous cutoff (one off the button) position, whereas a random seating algorithm should roughly have even numbers for each player at each seat, over a 580,000 hand sample.

Justin's theory was that Party was doing this intentionally -- giving more cutoff hands to losing payers, and fewer to winning players, thus giving the losing players an extra advantage to make up for their lesser skill.




This isn't an new discovery, though. In a 2+2 thread from March, users have shared data regarding this weird discrepancy in cutoff hands, and some losing players came forward to admit that they got MORE cutoff hands than expected. Uh oh!


Party Poker has supposedly acknowledged the "bug" since April, but has apparently not corrected it! They have also apparently been flippant in their response to poker pros complaining about it and demanding compensation.

Here's Kat Martin's good article about it on poker.org: https://www.poker.org/partypoker-fas...regs-millions/