Hmmmmm

I wrapped up a fairly successful week on NLOP by taking first in a tournament early this morning. For the second week in a row - the link to play in it is nor available. Very strange. Not like I want to waste my timed with it anyway. I'll be asleep long before it would be over with.

The real news is the tournament before the one that I took first. Someone that folds more than me was not in a blind when I got pocket aces and suddenly Q-4 offsuit struck his fancy and called my all-in, naturally drawing two pair Qs and 4s.

I think I've finally put my finger on what's wrong with thecurrent pattern at NLOP. I've often stated that winning the first hand and coasting to an easy victory there isn't an option. In the last two weeks I've had bunches of hands that would have won on the river - only if I played silly nonsense like 5-3 and made it through heavy betting. And that's a feature of Full Tilt, too. It's like they're training you to play badly so that when you whine on the real money tables they can point out what a poor player you are as their defense.

However, my problem with the play on NLOP is that in dozens of tournaments over the last two weeks someone wins 2 or 3 out of the first 3 or 4 hands and then they play like they never had the chip lead before and bet or raise on virtually every single hand. Before they get eliminated and finish out of the prize pool. Silly when it happens once or twice. When it happens twenty times in two weeks there's a real problem with believability.