Do you really want me to play in the big Monday tourney? Is that the explanation for these past four nights? Well, maybe I will. I'm pretty close to a lock for finishing in the top 1000 without playing another hand. Busting on Absolute and Ultimatebet has been rather boring lately. And although the early week went like "real poker" the past few days has been rather suspicious.
Problem #1 - Too few hands with anything resembling half decnt cards.
Problem #2 - Too few flops that match my decent hands.
Problem #3 - The minute few times the flop and my hole cards look decent, I get a bad beat hit on me.
Problem #4 - the aggressive raiser on the first hand is never punished. People always call and he always wins.
Problem#5 - I've seen it all before, and you can't stop me from folding. You should just let my stack dwindle to nothing and let three positions finish ahead of me.
Was a yawning "it wasn't meant to be" something like a sixth place finish. I tried to play for real instead of my bogus poker mode. I lost with AJ to A8 on the flop that caught two pair AA88. Not too weird, except that one very strange hand made my bogus radar fly off the screen. The table was already down to 7 out of 10, or so. One of the two chip leaders that should have been content to just call started big time raising. Caught an inside straight A to 5 on the river. It just reeked of knowing what the community cards were going to be. I nuked my AJ to the two pair on purpose, because as always I'm short stacked and not going anywhere...and I wanted another try at playing "bogus poker mode."
Yes, there were a couple of hands I would have won on if I stuck with it. And there were some hands worth a call pre-flop I folded that would have been worth a call post flop and I would have won. Bogus poker mode does not allow me to call anything until I finish in the money. Which should never happen. Add a third place to the two recent seconds on folding every hand.
Suddenly, after a snotty message about not playing (and two more hands where the post and fold player was ejected) I finally started getting good cards. I ended up eliminating snotty messenger position #2. 2 people left - I win one big hand. Essentially even chips. We fart around for awhile, he raises with pocket fours and I go all in with QT and catch a Q. With 115 chips left I win.
I should be excited about this except:
Problem#6 - Why do you insist that I have to play short stacked? I've played enough hands and seen so many bad cards - then all of a sudden at the end of the game things turn around. For a change of pace...let me catch a nut winner on the first two or three hands and let me bet instead of just fold or call.
It's a pattern that's been far too established this week. One, maybe two nights I can live with it. More than that it's starting to get into the realm of the statiscally unreasonable.
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