Tonight I did a quick check and Googled poker blogs. That was because the extra points survey on NLOP included a question about whether the links should be included. I wasted several months of my life on this site and I was wondering if they could also easily Google my blog and retrain the AI to play based on my comments.
When it comes to the question on whether internet poker is for real or not, there's probably something like 95% of the posts saying it is.
Just like when I got onto MPOGD (multi player online game directory) and slammed Dominion for not being for real, I think a ton of this stuff is damage control so the site doesn't look bad when it's checked out. My MPOGD post with a rating of unplayable on Dominion was met with a succession of laughable posts giving it a ten of ten rating with exciting comments about the game play like, "Weeeeeeee!" Yeah, that will make me want to play the game. You got your rating back up after my drag down. You suckered some 12 year olds into buying a premium account and spending real money on a "free" game you can't really succeed at. Good for you.
Now, for poker peeps, here's what you're doing wrong - the real key to the fraud is in the free money tables. Don't play sit and go tourneys. Don't play Texas Hold'em. Their market research shows that everyone wants to play Texas Hold'em. If you have any skill you can learn the other games in like 2 days of playing. What's a good hand for calling in Omaha high low, Stud high low, Razz, whatever...anything but Hold'em. Since they police the "odd" tables with some pretty bad AI they need to do some strange things to give them a competitive edge vs. someone with a real brain.
What I've seen on how they beat me, since most of the time I call to lose:
#1 rig the cards.
#2 poor players raising constantly (play fixed limit games) that keep losing, but somehow always have a ton of chips to keep playing. Again, the new trend is not to lose to the player that raises, they are just feeding the pot.
#3 Preprogram several hands, an NLOP favorite from months ago. (You have 2 1/2 minutes to do that now instead of 45 seconds like you used to.)
#4 Your chatter really just doesn't fit in at times. I don't like to chat and it seems like this offends you. Do you get a penny a post???
For NLOP tonight -
Decision time. I can try and play on Absolute or Ultimate where I'm surely going to get cheated. NLOP is a little more subtle since they want you to click on the ads to qualify for the big and impossible to win game. Currently I'm at the minimum of 100 points short. After they obviously threw me the game. Way too many pocket pairs for a 100 hundred hand or so tourney. It doesn't make me think, "Geez I'm a great poker player!" It makes me think, "Do you want me to click on an add to qualify and/or what do you scheme for the Monday night tourney?" (Oh yeah, not playing it regardless.)
As usual, the game on NLOP took forever. The only site I've played that doesn't try and blitz you into making bad decisions. Instead it's the opposite. Things are ridiculously slow. Because the AI is all programmed to "think." And you have no option on NLOP to play anything but Hold'em.
So despite all the defensive posts on internet poker being for real I still firmly stand by my position. Play on the free money tables for many hours. Watch the BS. Like me you will come to think:
How could anyone possibly think this is for real?
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