My focus has been playing here for an average of 2.5 hours a day for the past few weeks. The spped of play has been completely unreasonable. Players making bets before the command options could have possibly come up, and throwing in the time to chat along side of that.
The early report is that there are several things wrong with the "new" Absolute.
I got a message as I logged in that there was a new version of the software available. In the old days on Pokerstars this translated to "I have new player names." The most memorable of those was a time when all off a sudden the' competition' had player names in all caps. Very obvious. I figured on the same here.
For the first 6-8 hands I had the usual player to my right raisning me on crap. The explanation for this would be that he doesn't care since his 90,000 chips is worth seeing every hand on a 100-200 limit 7 card stud game. But there's a new plyer in town. The player that calls every bet that can't obviously lose, even though the other player's hole cards would have to be completely imperfect. The raiser turned into call anything and not worrying about probability. He lost 15,000 chips and just finally sat out.
There's some leeway for having a bad night, but if you don;t fold a hand every once in a while (saw three or four) and you play that way all the time, how do you possibly amass a 90,000 stack in the first place?
Next - the speed of play has become almost completely normal. Overnight. After the program being updated. Hmmm, curious that dozens of people I've played with tonight play real poker after three weeks of silly poker. And last night I changed from 7 stud hi-lo to no limit Omaha hi-lo for on a 20,000 chip max table. I played for 20 minutes, folded every hand and watched the lightning speed bet, raise, raise, raise let God sort them out mentality that this site has proven. Mental note: Must play on an Omaha table tonight to see if that has changed, too.
Next - virtually no chat. I've seen that before lots of times. This time a 2000 short stacked suicide player pops up and immediately offers hello to two players like they are old buddies. The first is someone sitting out. Somewhat believable hoping they'll be back to say hi when the receiver gets off the can. The second was my buddy the raiser turned caller/feeder. Not a peep from "him".
My goals for tonight are to play as long as my suiciding friend is at the table ver conservatively and see how much he's willing to lose. Then play Omaha hi lo. Over the next week the first thing I will do is search his player name and see if he plays the same way as tonight. Being a gambler my guess is that if I catch him online his poker personailty will be all over the place inconsistent.
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