Victor Chandler Poker / Doyles Room

I was wondering where to play poker today and was surprised to see I had some money left over in an old account at Victor Chandler, about $100 infact, so I gave the $12 rebuy tournament, guaranteed for $1250, a shot. I finished just outside of the money in 14th, after a rebuy and an add-on. The remaining $60 or so I took to 50c/$1 NLHE.

I'm not usually one for questioning the integrity of poker rooms online, however, VC Poker is truly set-up for gathering the maximum rake from it's cash players, the hour or so I played here with my small cash amount, I saw 6 split pots, I can generally see 80 hands an hour which means in that hour 7.5% of the pots were split - This cannot be right, can it? Surely a coincidence and the figure will be much lower overall? Well, I'm not so sure, I remember clearly leaving VC in mid-autumn (fall for you Americans) last year with a bitter taste in my mouth following huge odds outcomes for various players at various tables.

I was involved in 1 of the 6 split pots which went like this:

I have 7,8d

Flop: 4h,5d,6h

I've flopped the nuts here and instead of making a small bet and risking the heart chasers, I check, hoping someone will try and take the pot down then and there. The SB bets $1 - leaving him $16 left. BB calls, the rest fold, I raise $16, hoping one of them (the SB please) will call.

He does and shows 4,6o - Pretty much as good as it gets for me, he has 4 outs to win it.

Turn: 7s
River: 8s

Result, split pot.

Other instances of rake boosting I saw were:
AK vrs AK vrs AQ vrs TT
AK vrs AK vrs AA
QQ vrs KK vrs AK

So aswell as the amazing splits there were LOTS of action hands, too many for my liking in approx 80 hands and 1 hours play.

I worked my $60 up to $160 after flopping a set of nines vrs Q,K who flopped his Q - despite my large bet he felt the need to raise all-in. The standard of play which I adore is spoilt by completly rigged software in favour of boosting rakes. This sickens me and I've sworn to myself that I'll never play at this site again.

By all means try it for yourselves, you may disagree with me and think the cards are fairly dealt with no intention of rake boosting, in that case good luck to you, I'll take my business elsewhere in future.