The big thing on NLOP is a weekly tourney to play for the big prize. In the first month even someone within nominal poker skills could qualify. Then I caught them. Mostly by playing at odd hours for someone having a day job. Then, to qualify for the weekly tourney I had to play bad poker - folding pocket kings and such.
The last week, I told myself I wasn't even going to play. Too much stress and frustration. And forensically investigating the game wasn't working out at all. I was folding lots of hands I should have called expecting bad beats. And I was folding winners.
This does not fit into my normal pattern of playing bad poker to win. The bad beats have been turned off. Then the light bulb came on. They are using me to test the new AI. Someone that knows how to play poker for real training them on what the AI needs to do. For two months I folded like crazy and looked atlots of big bets and the AI beat themselves to death - skip in under the radar and score an easy third. Get some points and qualify for the weekly tourney.
In my frustration I realized wasn't having any success in my annoying the game admins mode. They knew it wasn't real, I knew it wasn't real, they knew I knew it wasn't real. Blew off a ton of pre programmed games ( as determined by the ridiculous chat) I'm getting bored and ready to move on to busting a new site.
But I told myself, one last try at annoying the game admins that worked once before. I qualified for the weekly tourney that can't possibly be won. Register - and don't play. Then, I wanted to play other tourneys and couldn't since you can only play one at a time. But I can't. I had to nuke the tourney by calling all in with 4-2 offsuit - got back to semi real poker and had two second place finishes.
The point about the caught ya -
If you post and fold for 15 turns you are gone. I posted and folded for a helluva lot more than that, and I still had to actively bail out to play some fairly ridiculous poker that I needed to fold like crazy and be extremely short stacked to win at.
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