Kudos to Absolute

Four days in a row. Real cards. Real gambling, even if only four free money chips. I even just finished a titanic hold'em tourney where at one time 6 players had relatively even chip stacks and the blinds were becoming insane. When the cards were shown it made the bets that were made look reasonable. And that is the 4th hold'em tournament in a row that looked very reasonable. Played a little Omaha high low and 7 stud high low and the betting was very reasonable. The chip stack is approaching $1,350,000 and slowly climbing, which is very reasonable. I'm a solid player, a little too conservative - it's better to fold a winner than to call a loser.

I have nothing to complain about for four days, which, yes, just absolutely kills me.

Or do I?

You betcha.

I've kind off been left alone and allowed to play. Which on free money tables has not been the case for months. I'm not hurting anyone. Just looking to play a couple hands of cards each night, drink some beers, pet the dog, fall asleep, go to work and get home and play some more cards.

For months, why would you go to such titanic efforts to make me lose free money chips? And now you want play for real? Or at least almost real. The jury is still out on that, and let's review the facts:

Three stud high low and Omaha high low are not very popular. Most of my research on this site was geared towards playing those games. Now I have switched to the wildly popular Hold'em sit and go tourneys , and if I'm right the admins give these tables a lot more attention.

I still fold a little more than I would like to - I still think that my cards are worse than average. But not ridiculous like on other sites.

Bad beats have never been a problem on Absolute. I've probably had more in my favor than I've lost. But, qualify that with so much folding that I don't get the chance to get bad beat as much as the average person.

So, good job guys. Keep the human aspect reasonable. Don't try to cheat me out of my chips. I'll just play a hundred hands a night, get bored and and leave. Make the bs obvious and live with the consequences.

A couple of small stretches of real poker does not make up for months of garbage.