I've been locked out of NLOP for pretty much a week. On the non-paranoid side it's just that they have had an ad or something that doesn't jive with my browser and it crashes. On the paranoid side - playing one tourney a night for a couple of weeks and no chance to make it to the impossible to win weekly tournament I still logged in enough hours to establish that I'm getting statiscally unreasonable cards. Forget about winning anything in the first deal around the table except for a few second deals.
I made my statement. Qualify for the big weekly tourney and don't play in it. Just like with Pokerstars 5,000 "player" games it became very obvious that my table was moving so slowly that after we "played" three or four hands that I might have won one and gone up from the 1,500 chip initial stack to 3,000-4,000 the leaders were already at 12,000+. Myth busted, Adam, Jamie, Tory and Grant agree. The only way to stop me is to be bogus. (Did you get the Mythbusters reference?)
Does it bother me I can't play there? No way. You've tipped your hand. I'm so much of an annoyance losing my rigged one tourney a night I need to be put down like one of Michael Vick's pit bulls. And I've rarely ever said a peep on their site about how obviously and statiscally unreasonable the cards were. They just figured it out on their own and gave up on me buying in to the constant crap.
On Absolute, I now have over a million chips of free money. Which I would never had if I didn't adjust to their constantly changing standards of play. But mostly the standards are now play to make me lose instead of playing to win.
Given - there is artificial intelligence here. No doubt about that. As in previous posts I've mentioned that everyone at the table pretty much plays the same way. The normal trick is that they play like complete idiots. So last night after another 7 stud hi low constant raise -raise - raise game I took a big chunk of my 1 million chips and played the same. Over 45 minutes to an hour I think I pretty much proved that this doesn't work. And it's not really that much fun, which is something I haven't mentioned before. On my winning hands, did I get any sense of joy on beating someone with my skill being better than there's? No way.
Now, to Absolutes credit the past two nights before my 7 stud personal all in meltdown have been pretty reasonable. For a change of pace I played a Hold'em tourney including a pair of pocket aces that got cracked and struggled to eventually take second. I played 7 stud hi low tonight where people checked, called and folded like real people. I switched to Omaha high low and the all ins were limited to low chip count players trying to graduate.
Two nights of real poker!
Does that make up for months of unreal poker? No way.
When busting online poker like I do there are two main categories to focus. Are the cards you are getting normal cards? Even extremely good cards? Or are they kind of screwed up? On Absolute the cards are pretty much normal. Category #2 - the human aspect. What would a rational and reasonable human do in a given situation? Would you bet all in when I call, or check? And the same "person" only calls or even folds when I'm not in the hand? I have tens of thousands of hands of experience on this site alone that prove their playing to make me lose
There's no doubt in my mind that like Microsoft Hearts I'm playing against AI trying to make me lose instead of winning for themselves. And this could simply be tied to my login info. I have 1,000,000 chips. AI is set to make things more difficult for real human players with big chip stacks. Maybe other logins don't have to witness the BS. Tons of computer games get more difficult as you progress.
BUT THIS IS REAL PEOPLE PLAYING AGAINST REAL PEOPLE! Supposedly. AND THERE'S REAL MONEY ON THE LINE!
Why settle for a rake when you can cheat and take it all?
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