Usually I get a small thrill from winning some points/chips. Playing slow, beating some over-aggressive guy on a big hand. Lately things have been phenomally bad. I did OK on Monday, but Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday were a complete waste of time.
And I love it.
It's not from lack of poker skills. It's from the hugely rigged hands.
The stastically impossile - I had 4 hands out of thirty that I would have considered calling tonight. None of them would have been winners, and knowing it's rigged I folded all of them. One of them would have been a splitter, but in a four player game with three short stacked and a huge chip leader who bet big I couldn't afford to call. And of the hands I shouldn't call when the showdown cards were displayed - universally non-winners.
Bad beats - On the game mentioned above I went all in with pocket jacks against a similarly short stacked player. He called with 10-8 offsuit and flopped two pair.
Annoying the game admins - Folded a pair of kings that would have elimanted me to a bad beat if I raised or called after suffering through some more statiscally abnormal hands. I'm sure that they would have loved to have me gone like my pocket jacks that lost. I also signed up for a game and logged out. I hope you are wasting energy on that.
Back a bit I identified that the players were constantly going all in pre-flop on the first hand. I would just sit in the sidelines and pick up the pieces afterwards. Now, for more than a week NOBODY goes all-in pre-flop. Each game on its own, this is not abnormal. But when it happens in 15 consecutive after the prior pattern you have to consider that something funny is going on.
Definitely the two games tonight and most of the recent ones have shown the AI to trade chips between each other, and play like Microsoft Hearts - not playing to win but make me play to lose. In the old days weeks ago the chip leader was an unstobbale machine. Often now he's just a pot feeding whore.
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