Friday night's on internet poker

Don't play. That's A1 number prime time BS.

First off on NLOP I was fighting for a third place win. It was tough. 2 players with lots of chips, the rest you can flip a coin on for third place. I made a couple of bets, the turn and river didn't help and I folded. The next player in place checked. The chip leader, after playing sound poker for 35 minutes - folded. Instead of just checking and losing on the flop. It wasn't like he was constantly raised and scared that his hand was going to be the loser on not catching. He just folded it and put me into fourth. This smacks of at least human collusion if not bogus "the site must win versus the real human player."

I went for broke on Absolute after that. $120,000 free money chips. I fiddled around and basically broke even on stud hi-lo. The results of switching to Omaha Hi-Lo with a 20000 chip buy in were spectacular. Everyone was going all in. My first try I folded a bunch and eventually matched them on a decent hand. 20,000 chips lost. Repeat the same for a second try.

Third try, okay let me wait until I have some better hands. Fold, fold, fold, call modest bet fold, fold, fold, call modest bet, fold, etc... As I continue to watch thousands of free chips raised. And called. Two hands in a row I get great cards and call all-in. Fold-fold-fold-fold-fold. Oh come on dorks, you've been so loose with your chips all night that now you can't push some my way?

Throw in a bogus hold'em tourney on Absolute to top that off. Very bad night for me, except that I know the cards aren't for real. Between me and my opponennts I've seen something like 30 pocket pairs in 150 hands.