A new first accomplished tonight. Twice before I've folded every single bet and fnot called any bets and finished in the top three for some points. I just finished second. Which included another one of my initial topics - annoying the game admins.

By hand three or four one player had 80% of the chips. The player that can't lose. K9 of hearts suited for me on the next hand - 4 players left. I naturally raised....no wait, I folded a K( suited with four players left? You betcha. The player that can't lose ends up winning with a two king flop and having the other king and a KKKQQ fullhouse. Down to three. I fold forever - thrid place finisher finally calls and loses to the player that can't lose. Now I have like 350 chips versus 4650.

Well, if I'm going to make this miraculous comeback it's going to take the rest of the night. For points I don't need since I'm still going to qualify for the big weekly game. So, I fold, even when a check gets me to see the next cards for free.

I love doing stuff like that. You don't want to play real poker and you want to cheat me - fine by me. I don't have to play real poker and can fold regardless of the consequences. I got some really great cards, including pocket queens that I just ditched. Second place without any betting.

Two other strange things I've noticed on the current site. Raise are normally multiples of $10. You have to type in an odd number to make it be something, well, odd. Lately there's been lots of bets with odd dollars like $322, and such. So far the table cards on those seem to be normal. I think this is human collusion. You and three or four friends get together, and like a bad Bridge game you signal your buddies when it's time to send your chips their way. Doesn't always work since sometimes QQ loses to 23 offsuit, but if it's still one of your buds you can keep trading chips to give someone an edge.

LOOONGGG pauses. In two varieties. A player will time out within the 15 seconds limit. The action goes around the board until another players turn comes up. And he thinks for ten seconds before calling, raising or folding. Okay, two choices - you are multi-tasking andf waiting for the "signal" that it's your turn. Or you're not for real and giving the impression that you are playing for real. Which means you're AI, or at least used to be. The second variety is the unexplained delay while waiting for play to resume when normally it takes a few secs. If I play a statiscally unreasonable rash of bad beats follows.

Sometimes I wonder if these guys are on to me and use me for info on rewriting the AI programming - which YES does exist. The thoughts that I'm a poker god are not possibly for real. I keep winning by playing bad poker.