Thank you NLOP

Boy I needed that. I was jonesing for a completely unrealistic game. You provided the fix.

Preface to that - for about a week now things have been pretty calm on my other sites. Which is disturbing since on the four of them I was putting up with a lot of bs for MONTHS before this week. I've seen what looks like an obvious AI change on a single site before, but for three of them to do it all at once....very strange.

As for the NLOP game -

Suspiciously, nobody wanted to play a ten player 500 point game. So I took the bait and allowed myself to get funneled into the 10 player 1000 point game. I broke a personal rule and called the first hand and won. And I won hand number three. And I spent a significant amount of time in the top three.

The chip leader, lets use the name of "pilsbury" for lack of a better one (since that was actually the screen name) won a big hand number two and then made a point of being generally annoying by calling every hand and raising on most of them and taking huge chunks of time to make his bets (even very unsportingly timing out to fold.) They made the mistake of giving me crappy cards that I didn't even think about calling into the bets. Finally, 10+ hands into the game pils folds pre-flop. Another position has pocket kings and wins a nice pot. Lucky non-call. Probably. Except that within a few hands more he called a modest pre-flop raise. The flop had an Ace, five and some other relatively meaningless card. He called a modest bet after a long pause. 2 on the turn and he raises all in and wins since he had 3-4 offsuit.

That hand isn't too suspicious in and of itself, except when you combine it with the one lucky fold when someone else happened to have pocket kings - ad you at least called virtually every other hand. You HAVE to be kidding.

But, there's more.

The table got down to 6 players. Two short stacks, 3 medium stacks (including me and pils) and the chip leader who had been whining about how things really needed to move along since he was in some big tournament about to start soon. Using that as his excuse, he starts pushing the betting.

Spider sense definitely tingling. Let me guess - you are about to turn into The Player That Can't Lose(TPTCL) Through a succession of bad beats and great flops TPTCL all-ins pils, the two short stacks in the next three hands. Three player game and I'm third, not too far off from number and I'm first up with A-J diamonds. My gut instinct was to fold, but since I have to get a modest positive point flow for third and I'm an investigator instead of seriously playing I chuckle to myself and go head to head all in with TPTCL Naturally he matched his K and I was eliminated. I even had the flush draw on the river which naturally didn't produce.

Translation -

Game admin versus miscellaneous weak human players and AI. I need to rig the game in a hurry since I have a more important game to rig and end this table.