NLOP- the bad movie continues

I played a fourth tourney last night and actually managed to win. I'm in the top 1000, down near the bottom...started tonight at #835.

After playing so long on this site my suspicion is that real human player cards and how they match the flops are linked to where you are at in the ladder. If I'm at position 2,378 I can expect some decent hands. Let's let the guy get close to the top 1,000, cut him off short, then maybe he'll click on an ad and buy something to get 5,000 points to qualify for the weekly tournament.

With that in mind Tourney number started off with me expecting to be pretty much screwed over. And I was not disappointed.

Again, my cards were really bad. I didn't have very many callable hands. The few I did my spider sense told me to fold.

The final count:

Hands I folded that I would have obviously won, including staying in on big bets and hoping to catch on the river - 0.

Hands I folded that I might have won since the winner mucked their cards - possibly 2.

So I get the joy of folding 30 hands and just letting the powers that be decide my final rank, which should have been a big goose egg in regards to points and finish out of the top three. For the second time in 5 tourneys I backed into second place.

The final four were myself with low but not impossibly low chip stack. Two players with huge chip stacks. One player with ultra low chip stack that I was hoping to wait out for third. Instead, second highest chip stack that was Mr. Big Bluffer mixed with getting great cards (who raised on 90% of the hands) self-destructed. With my last 50 chips and no blinds, I folded and kept my fingers crossed as sitting out guy lost to the chip leader on his last $5 all in.

I can pat myself on the back for not being impatient and scoring second. And it really wasn't even bad poker like I normally play - I didn't have to fold a pair of queens pre-flop like I've done many times when I recognize the position that simply cannot lose. But, other than tourney #4 out of the last five it's been pretty obvious that statiscally things are not real for me. (E.g., not outrageous, but in tonight's tourney, no pocket pairs in 30+ hands.)

I'm sorry, this is not the way poker is supposed to be. There's no way someone should take second on a table of ten twice in five tries without winning a single hand. It just smacks of AI programmed to play a particular way and sticking to it since it's too late to re-program once the game has started.

And I've seen this before. The screenshot is the massive chip leader congratulating himself with an "nh". This is either:

1) Careless and not paying attention.

2) Extreme narcissist.

3) AI programmed to respond automatically with a message.

My money's on #3.