I lost $200,000!

Geez I'm bad at this game. I went from $1.5 million down to $1.3 million this morning. Money well spent since I greatly enjoyed the way they refused to play for real. Today's tricks (1:15 to 5:30 am) were both things I've seen before. Statiscal unreasonableness, trying to disguise the bad beat and I even found something new and weird.

Lately, a favorite trick on this site is to lure me into calling with Omaha high low hands that look good on paper, but because it's Omaha are really pretty bad. They invariably pop up after playing "chicken" and folding dozens of hands in a row. Just like my four aces a bit back. Here's another example. It would be a straight flush, except it's Omaha.

Trick #2 - disguising the bad beats. Or trying to. One insane player with an infinite chip stack does the raising for the player that can't lose. At first I didn't buy into it. Then after two hours of the same pattern I decided to cut loose and test the statiscal reasonableness of calling all in on Omaha high low every hand. Thats how I lost $200,000, Because unlike the crazy raiser with the infinite chip stack, I am not the player that can't lose. I won chips in something like ten hands. In more than an hour - on a game with split pots. And since the speed of play is so fast I played a TON of hands. Especially since I was playing on two tables at the same time!

And I was playing against the same opponent on two tables for a bit. And this is weird. On one table they have an avatar, on the other one - no image. All right - even if you have the option to block showing your own avatar, what is the reason to do it? And, you also happen to be the crazy raiser that is feeding the plot to the player that can't lose.

After a period of about six days of almost real poker it's nice to see things are back to normal.