Night and day on internet poker

It's really pretty amazing how easy this is getting. Tonight's target was Ultimatebet. They still haven't adjusted on what to do with a person that has some skill, is willing to wait out the cheats and will play for more than two hours on a low limit free money table.

I played the first 5 hands or so with my A-game on, naturally lost a bunch of my 1,000 chip stack to the usual bad beats and constant AI pre-flop raising before they settled down some. And like night and day, suddenly "real people" switched from automatically raising to build the pot to being a little more concerned about their chips.

I wish I could have recorded it. You'll just have to take my word for it. The only two times the pre-flop raiser didn't raise where when I had AK diamonds, that would have lost to a heart flush and when I folded a 62 offsuit that should have been folded when 2 sixes came up on the flop. No need to raise and cheat me some more.

And, since it's a limit game I get to see a ton of showdowns where the player raising has crap (betting into the winner) and I get to see that my good hands would have lost to great hands.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If I sit a table, even a crappy 10=20 limit table, I expect to see personalities. For the first half hour everyone's personality was raise, raise, raise, let God sort them out. The next half hour was raise and try to bait me into calling into hands the raiser was feeding. After that, I had proven I wasn't going away and I turned around my 500 chip loss into a plus 1,000.

Because of patience with their tell. No, I'm not going to call your "sweep" hands where everyone goes all in. Regardless of my cards.

And the "personalities" were even more ridiculous last night on Absolute. After months of pre flop raising I went to a 100-200 limit seven stud high low game and not only were the pre-flop raises absent, the player to my left called virtually every bet whether I won or another won.

There's just absolutely no way that people will login into a poker site, play to lose their chips, even if free money chips, and not be worried about it. Unless you are connected directly to the server, have an infinite chip stack and can refresh and/or buy as much as you need.

Obeservations this past two weeks -

Bad beats - omaha hi-low, I always lose to four of a kind with my boat. Never win. Very stastically unreal. I get A-2, I win, but two or three others have A-2 and splitting low I lose chips.

And the chat is always one of my favorites. After playing for 2 hours, longer than a normal person would being willing to sit for, on a silent table there was suddenly a flurry of comments.

You can do this, too. Just be patient. And don't put real money down.