You can try to find a player that you are playing against and they aren't there.
No, really.
This is the same software as Pokerstars with different graphics. After the Reiko Hill incident on Pokerstars I added player search as one of my main weapons. Reiko was a player with a ton of personality. Just simply couldn't keep his mouth shut. That was for the first time I played him. Then I searched for him and watched him play in a 7 card stud tournament for something like half an hour. Not a peep. And not a very good player.
On Absolute I have a list of player names I've been seeing on the Omaha high low tables too frequently. In particular, ANTJE, supposedly from Europe, was spotted yesterday at 3:00 am, 6:00 am, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm. Cool a person that has nothing better to do than play Omaha high low for free money like me!
As always being very suspicious about things like players that simply cannot lose, don't have to sleep, or show wild mood swings in the way they act during my marathon 11:00 am to 6pm yesterday (that did include some breaks for getting cheated at chess) I searched for ANTJE. If you type in a name wrong it tells you no such user exists. If you type in the correct name and they aren't logged in, the message is "XXXXXXX is not in the card room." At about 3:00 pm yesterday I did a search on my favorite three Omaha high low players including ANTJE, didn't find any of them. Went to an Omaha high low table played three hands switched tables and there was ANTJE.
Again. Dang. Just a couple of minutes after I searched. I'm always looking for new tricks to bust the site instead of worrying about the cards. (There's probably no one that has folded more hands of internet poker than I have since survival as long as possible to observe is the key.) Light bulb came on - player that doesn't sleep - searched for them and they weren't there - search for them while I'm playing against them!
I folded a hand, searched for ANTJE and "ANTJE is not in the card room" comes up. You can toggle between the search screen and the table, so it was easy to see that ANTJE was still there. I tried the search again a couple of times to validate the incident. Left the table and searched. Still no ANTJE. Went back to the same table with ANTJE.
Doing very little but folding poker hands for seven hours is something that precious few people can or will do. But I do it. And I sit back and watch players raise, raise. raise and lose, lose, lose and refresh their chips. And I'm thinking, how did you possibly get this many chips if you play so badly?
And don't get me wrong - I have over half a million chips. I can and for an hour did play like an idiot yesterday without concern for the stack.
Mental note: must post about annoying the game admins who control these fictitious positions. I did a lot of that yesterday.
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