The end of a very strange week for me. I don't like to play this site anymore for what I do. The site is interminably slow compared to everyone else. Everyone (that is, the AI) thinks for a long time, even on checking. And it's Hold'em. Most of the sites focus is on making Hold'em look for real, so when I pop into a high low game they aren't prepared for me. Except that they know me.
I played one tourney a night, and up until tonight things where pretty much OK. I won chips in every tourney. Tonight, two tourneys.
Preface -
The big thing about NLOP is that you can qualify for the big weekly game by ending in the top 1000 in points. I got to play in that several times and even when I was doing well it was obvious that with as slow as my tables played I couldn't match the chip stacks of all the tables where AI played instantly against AI. Pokerfrauds(stars).com was also very fond of this slow down trick.
On, NLOP, if you are short of points, you have an option other than playing poker. You can click on adds and run through them, buy something you don't want or need and get a huge amount of points.
The tourneys I won throughout the week tonight just reeked of feeding me. Pocket pairs like 10 times in fifty hands and such. And still, I'm just below qualifying.
There's one of four things going on to explain my bogus tourneys tonight.
1) I just had a bad night with some bad cards and evrything is fine in the poker world and it just wasn't meant to be for me.
2) It's late in the week and I haven't shown any sign of "buying" chips and they finally gave up on me.
3) Since I had been gone so long, I had managed to enter into another "Free Trial Period" where they court you and try and make it look for real.
4) It's all a scam and they hate me because I understand that to be successful you have to play not for real poker.
And, I'm happy to report that the real answer is #4. As always, they made a huge mistake.
The very first hand of my first tourney I was dealt pocket kings. NLOP is notorious for a real human never winning the first hand. Usually it's someone going all in with someone j-8 and the community cards just happen to have a 9, 10, q and beating pocket AA. Long ago I told myself that the only hands I would play for the first one on this site where pocket kings or pocket aces. And tonight was my first chance after about 5 months.
I supposedly lost my connection and had to fold. My translation of this event is, "Ooops!" "We gave you a killer on your first hand! Since you have talent I can't let you be the chip leader after the first hand. You must be short stacked like 98% of the time over the last five months!"
I checked other sites quick, my connection with my cable modem was fine. The only excuse could be if their site was down. I rebooted and logged back in. It was still the middle of the second hand. And nobody other than me had a connection problem. Because you don't have a connection problem when you are AI that's part of the server.
That's a new one for me. Normally I just expect my pocket kings to lose to AA after the flop. I guess the rookie admin must not have been paying attention and was taking a pee break.
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