Full Tilt sit and go fun

Suspicious, although not outright fradulent.

I've been playing a lot of sit and go's on this site lately. Tonight, by about hand 15 or so there were four players left and the three other than me sat out the rest of the way. I completed the boring "raise every hand" ploy to take first after a very boring half an hour. I can accept the believability on two accounts. First, it was only a 250 play money chip buy in. So, the two short stacks, seeing the 9,000 + chips might have figured it just wasn't worth it. Mr 9,000 chips might have just figured, "I've got better things to do. I'll take second."

I don't buy it on two other points. Why even register if you're not going to play? And you made you're decision on a relatively short number of 15 hands, and you could have fought for a spot in the top three out of the four. Also, this is the first sit and go of the many I've played here were the short stacks didn't hang on as the play seems to be more about making me lose than playing to win.

But, I'll re-buy into the reality theory that they nuked the game and moved on to a more interesting table.

I do have an alternate theory. And after five years of experience at this I have to give it some credit as being possible. Instead of a table of live people playing I'm convinced there's always an admin behind the scenes, running the show. How about if I was the only live human at the table other than the admin? The first eight hands were easy folds. My average card value was about 5 2/3rds instead of a statistically real eight. And it wasn't like low flops were coming up for me to win with a five high straight. And you discovered that unlike the normal person with a decent amount of chips that wouldn't waste their time on a 250 chip buy in table, you got bored or had better things to do than screw with my life.

The jury is still out on this one. For now I'm willing to say it was for real and people blitzed registered into multiple tourneys that the (lucky for me) decided to bail on this one. The real key will be to see if the pattern repeats itself multiple times in the near future.