I admit I was getting a little worried. Last night's Omaha high low session was very reasonable. That is, within certain parameters that I will discuss on pre-flop raising.
Unlike Absolute Poker there was hardly any pre-flop raising. That's the way it should be. Hardly any hands are worth a pre-flop raise. Hardly any hands are worth a pre-flop fold. So I mucked around and built up some chips amd wondered, could this site(Ultimate) be for real?
Well, I had already done my weird login in time trick of coming alive when a sane and rational person with my IP address wouldn't be able to cope with the evidence that things werem't on the up and up. Mostly due to irrational raising. Now that I've played a bit on normal time and I've been patient I gave them a chance to tip their hand(s) and I've come to understand that something funny is going on.
Apparently every sane and rational poker player on the planet raises whenever they have an ace or a pair pre-flop on a high low game.
I used primo trick number two the last two nights. Everyone plays for the high hand. I don't care what my cards are. If I don't have a solid low winner working I'm out of town. If I accidentally catch the high, so much the better.
Which also includes trick number three....not playing the really popular tables.
And since I survive so long willing to fold so many hands I get to see the "human" aspect not really working. Previous nights had a royal flush and a couple of four of a kinds being the winners. Tonight's 3-7 straight flush (on a seven card stud all club hand) was met with nothing. Certainly not by me.
So since I can't bust the cards as being completely unreasonable, I switch to busting on "human" reasonable.
At first I log into seven stud high low and it's a five player game. The previous night it was one player on many tables. I can play one on one or find another game. I find that other game in Omaha. Tonight- real players! 4 positions and me! let's play! Did I say real?
Logged in, changed auto-blind to post, changed to sit in the game. After the hand played out I was switched to sit out. Switched to sit in. The hand played played out, I was switched to sitting off. Allright - you must know I'm here. I'm just going to play some cards and forget about real life and have some fun. Nope. Forced out again. Then I finally got into some pretty bad poker.
I'm sorry I've insinuated your database and that I'm a better poker player than you can ever dream of being. What are you going to do about it?
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