I have three theories on the soooo many games where you meet up with the player that simply cannot lose.
Theory number 1 - Someone is just on a roll. Having a great night. This is the weakest of the three theories since there are soooo many games on NLOP where it happens. It's statiscally unreasonable that one player keeps getting such good cards, matching flops, great catches on the turn and the river in something like half of the ten player tourneys I join in on. And as posted weeks ago, this phenomena was present in virtually every one of something like 50 tourneys over a two week period. That's where I first developed my "fold regardless of cards I hold" strategy.
Theory number 2 - It's a real person still in the FREE TRIAL PERIOD. I've experienced the free trial period myself almost evey site I have visited. My tourneys fill quickly since there's so much AI out there. The game gets going since you're not twiddling your thumbs thinking, "Geez I wish this game would start, I'm getting bored." If I get too bored I'm going to give up before I ever consider putting real money on it. And then the cards are juiced for the same reason. As with my real human game this weekend, instead of a pair of nines winning the pot, it's constantly that the winner is a flush on the river beating someone's trips, full house eats a flush, etc... If I keep getting 24 for hole cards I'm going to get bored and quit before I consider putting real money on it. There's no doubt that I'm out of the free trial period on NLOP. I constantly get bad hands. I intend to fold anyway, so no biggie. And I have seen plenty of bad beats that when I get a high pocket pair I'm skeptical and just call instead of raising. They almost always get beat.
Theory number 3 - What if your job was to police a bogus poker site? Pop in and out of several tables, generate some chatter to make it look real, get some betting going on slow games and specific to NLOP - change which AI position you control - I've seen this "Network Latency" bargraph following which strange things happen. The player that can't lose changes. Betting patterns change. Players that folded the first ten hands become alive. Those players always explain away, "I got booted." Playing there actively for months now, I don't think I've been booted more than three times.
So, if this was your job, would you play it straight up? Wouldn't it get a little boring? Especially if you weren't that good a poker player and you could either flip the magic "I can't lose button" on, or maybe see what everyone's hole cards were and what the table cards are going to be? The bad beats on NLOP just reek of this.
In my first and only tourney tonight on NLOP I again experienced the player that could not lose. Pretty easy. As soon as the first hand was over - something like the winning hand being a pair of twos that was not just called but aggressively raised on an offsuit 2 and other low card (10?). With a queen on the board. I immediately went into full fold mode. I sat back and watched the player that couldn't lose pick everyone else of. With just me and my extreme short stack versus him I went all in with A-10 hearts. He called, I flopped the flush. Naturally he caught a full house on the river. Second place, playing two hands - one big blind flop and that last hand. The hole thing was over in less than 25 deals, a very short game.
I hope you choke on your hard earned victory. Come back to me when you want to make the cards more reasonable and play some real poker.
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