Item number one - first I must eat some crow. You are allowed to split any cards with a value of ten in blackjack. It's just the insanity of doing it that prevents me from doing it. I apologize for my previous post.
Item number two - Again I hated last nights poker. The cards were reasonable, with the exception of a suspicious start to a tourney on NLOP where a player that couldn't lose went all in on something like a 10-6 offsuit and bad beat three or four others and cruised to victory. I took second after watching him win an unreasonable amount of the next five hands.
Item number three - since it just happened seconds ago. Totally unrelated to poker but not for real. For months now I keep getting telemarketer calls that ask me if I'm "Pamela J. Burridge." If I am I should hold. The caller ID shows its obviously an 800 number. And it's always Pamela they ask for. Even though several times I've used their supposed support system to remove me from the call list since I'm not Pamela.
After last nights success I turn to item # four - how to get back in investigative mode instead of real poker and (b)logging the problems.
On Absolute - RAZZ is actually 7 stud lowball. Straights and flushes don't count. Low hand wins. As it is not a wildly popular game it's perfect for my purposes. I registered for a tourney of 8 players. It started at about 7:15 pm EST. I'm supposed to believe that I'm playing against 7 other real people. The site has never admitted that they use AI to fill the tables. I finished fouth just out of the money, including my usually ultra-conservative folding on hands and avoiding bad beats on the last card which happened several times.
The problem was the chat. 45 minutes of play - nobody said a peep. When I finally got fed up the blinds were insane. I got bad beated into kingdom come and was gone.
But like in the good old days of Pokerstars I can still be a railbird. Two "players" were playing actively. One was sitting out. I can still post messages. For the first time in days/weeks other than an occasional "nh" or "ty" I posted messages that supposedly real people could see. Things like "Guys, I'm new at this, can you give me some tips?" "Come on, just a couple of pointers?" I am new at Razz, even though I understand enough math to figure it out. Nuthing
One of three things are going on -
1 - These people are Razz grandmasters so focused on the game that they need to ignore me and make their bets in the ightning quick time and not respond to me.
2 - These Razz grandmasters hate me so much, even though I've done nothing to offend them I'm blacklisted from a simple - "wait until you have three low cards before you bet or call" or similar message.
3 - Or, as is the obvious choice - Sorry, I'm just artificial intelligence made to pump up the stats on players logged in to make the site look popular. Not only do I not want to respond to you, as AI, I *can't* respond to you. At least not in my current form. Maybe we will change the programming later if you keep playing RAZZ.
This brings back 'fond' memories of playing on Pokerstars. If you had no chips, you could refresh them to 2000. And as I was constantly bad beated back to starting over I constantly had to start over from zero. Every single night of the week there was a big 5000 player tourney that cost 4000 chips. For weeks or maybe months I would do whatevere I could to qualify for the nightly big game that started at 8pm EST. Then I would play that tourney for several hours and not get any reward.
My powers of observation noticed that my table was always slower than every single other table in the game. Multiple AI positioins with big chip stacks are still better than human with intelligence. Even if my table was going OK for me, the eventual geting placed on the final few tables left me impossibly short stacked. Time to take a timeout from playing and investigate. 5000 palyers with ten a table - and most of them are free wheeling bet-raise-raise-raise call all in, lightining fast no chat pieces of garbage.
And this is the same thing that happens in single table games to me this day. If I want to survive to play thirty hands instead of 5 I need to fold regardless of my hole cards. Maybe God is training me to be the best short-stacked player on the planet.
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