Violent mood swings

When you play on the free money tables, often you get involved in "bingo." Raise, raise, raise...let God sort them out. The explanation is invariably that it's just free money...why do I care?

Well, that kind of works if you're playing with 1000 starting chips and you are willing to raise every time, refresh, and continue the same idiocy. Omaha hi-low on Ultimate constantly has the same "I don't care about my chip stack" philosophy when you play a table where you start with 5000 chips.

Tonight on Absolute I got a dream table. Seven Card Stud High low. 100-200 limits. Raise, re-raise, re-raise, etc... Hand after hand. I was fortunate enough to catch two boats in the first three hands. Some great folding chips while I watch the bad movie unfold. And...oh my gosh...they had to break their own rules to try and cheat me.

Fresh off my two boats I've been dealt a A-2-8, great starter hand for a low. There was an extremely unreasonable pause, and "Bob" came into the game when he should have had to sit out and swept the pot with A-2-3-4-5. And, naturally suspicious I folded my A28 before buying into it. The game continued on with ridiculous raising.

And then the magic mood swing. Suddenly, including "players" I've started the table with get all chatty and compliment each other, joke about their losses and such nonsense.

I have seen this so often...wait out the bad AI, watch it finally become a real table. While I should have had to play normal from the start instead of getting cheated for half an hour or an hour and I finally prove I'm not a bot, they get tired of cheating me, or whatever silly reason they have to make the game shift from obvious crap to a sense of normality.

Considering "Bob" came on with a killer hand and left after it, I'm convinced it's a deliberate rigged stop to my night. That I didn't buy into. And the new players constantly raising and not caring about their chips. Indicative of AI playing to make me lose instead of playing to win.

And then, magically after more than an hour of bs the game suddenly becomes real poker. I won 10,000 chips! Which, I don't care about except that it will help watching you embarrass yourself more in the future.