Let me train you some more

Weeks or months ago I identified a pattern that occurred far too often. THE PLAYER THAT COULDN'T LOSE would get a big chip lead and bet aggressively for the rest of the game. I learned not to play and fold myself into third or second. Now I think after so many more tourneys I've identified the new pattern.

But as a prelude, another observation. Hole cards seem to be set to three modes. Crappy, normal and fantastic. You can play 100 hands a night and experience the same kind of hole cards over 3 or four tourneys. In ordinary life after one tourney of getting crappy hole cards you would think the next might be normal. Instead the past two weeks I'm constantly fed 7-4, 10-2, etc... Just like the previous tourney. And a third tourney. And maybe a fourth.

Setting the hole cards to crappy is the easiest - one deal around the table and you are so short stacked that it's climbing a mountain to place in the money. Setting the hole cards to fantastic is the most nefarious, and the most bogus. You are constantly thinking of betting insteaqd of checking, even going all-in and losing on the river.

The new pattern, after several more weeks of play - THE PLAYER THAT CAN'T LOSE wins two or three of the first couple of hands. The real players cards are set to crappy or normal mode. Then, PLAYER THAT CAN'T LOSE cards switch to normal. With a big chip lead they constantly call and raise and lose since THE PLAYER THAT CAN'T LOSE position has switched to one of the other AI positions, making them a pot feeding whore.

During the past two weeks I've played at least three tourneys a night and I've seen this pattern on virtuall every tourney. Bogus for two reasons. First, the AI now transfers chips between each other, including calls by the chip leader on stupid hands. Second, the play is so completely different from months ago. All of a sudden the supposedly real players are now playing smarter poker than they used to. I rarely see an all in on the first hand now, when back a couple of months ago I enjoyed how it cleaned up the table, let me know who's bet I shouldn't call.

And in these last two weeks I've still seen lots of friendly "good hand" and "thank you" messages between players. Except for when I win one it goes unacknowledged.

So, morons, in my last game tonight, please just acknowledge my existence.