2008 WSOP Winner Claims Online Poker Games Are Fixed
Jason Young, 2008 WSOP bracelet winner, has been complaining about the reliability of online poker games. Also known as “JBY,” Young has gone on to make some really strong statements claiming that there is “some theme” that is wrong with these online poker games.
Despite the fact that Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer made their way to the WSOP by playing online poker games and getting in via an online satellite tournament, Jason Young appears to doubt the integrity of an online poker game.
Young went on to play the blame game and pointed to the entire system, “I have chalked up losing sessions and all that to variance in the past, but someone needs to explain to me how this is even possible.”
His reasons for this being that he has lost $35,000 within two days of playing online poker, believing that something must be wrong with the system. Taking into consideration that hundreds of poker players, many of whom have participated in the WSOP and placed in the money, are frequent online poker players prone to win money while playing, make Young’s statements sound like nothing but the tirade of a player on a bad losing streak. Perhaps Young has lost his edge or may have underestimated the skill levels of online poker players he is competing against.
Young does state that he has not played much online poker and appears to be baffled that he is losing while playing poker online, and doing it frequently. Young tried his hand at online poker in an effort to improve his game, but ended up disappointed with the results and proceeded to vent his anger in a blog, stating, “They are trying to jam it in me around every corner. The biggest joke ever…. I’m literally steaming while I right this…Broken computer and all…I’ve been playing $500/$1K heads up Hold’em, o8 and Omaha Hi the past 2 days I have lost to 2 outers no less than 50 times. I’m not kidding.”
