CityPoker - the new worst poker site on the net

Let me tell you about your multiple sins.

Big pre-flop bet almost every hand.

Every position calling pre-flop, including most dumb ass pre-flop bets.

Statiscally unreal number of aces.

Players, like sexymama that just don't ever need to sleep.

You're definitely on my radar.

New site, same old problems

I have only been playing this site since Friday. And believe me, they have gotten a lot of attention in just a few days. Especially now that I appear to be locked out of UB. It's the same old story over and over and over again. I'm not playing Texas Hold'em, which all your market has lead you to almost make the games look for real. In Omaha Hi-Lo, raising is substituted for competence.

And now I have more than 50k chips being pretty much patient and watching your wild dumb ass raising on almost every single hand.

And this is the site Insidersportsbetting.com called the one that doesn't cheat. Wrong call guys,

There was a ton of chat posted about bitches and luck and general poker stuff. And every single hand I won you didn't even acknowledge my existence. The same as you didn't acknowledge my existence this weekend. Maybe that's because you aren't programmed to acknowledge the existence of someone who would name themselves Pustule since Vanadium was already taken.

Or I'm still just in the Free Trial Period where they pray that I'm stupid enough nto post a real money deposit and lose it all.

Rigged poker

http://www.thatsjustnotright.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32697

Geez guys, you cheat at the free money tables. Practice your cheating program and then take it to the big real money tables.

Comments on this blog are now allowed again.

I got a magaizine, CityPoker rules!

Because I was involved in a football pool I got a magzine. And this magazine dared to mention what we've all been suspicious of - internet poker is rigged on most of the 100 plus sites. This magazine, 2 pages later dared to proclaim that CityPoker was the best site on the net.

Well, you haven't met me, yet.

I got all the information I needed in less than half an hour to satisfy me that it's just another dumb ass, illegal rigged to the gills site.

Vanadium already taken as a user name. Yeahhhhh....sure.

The Omaha Hi lo tables aren't structured to meet players with common chip stacks. A newb with 1000 chips is playing against players with 40k+ chips. And the big stacks bet constantly and put the small stacks at risk, if they're stupid enough to buy into it.

Graphically stupid, too. If you pick a favorite seat on the lower part of the baord you can't be seen.

And I'm supposed to take your suggestion on the best sports betting site? Not only is the poker site they advertise bad, it's already vaulted into the 'so dismally bad it's funny' category that I shouldn't waste anymore time on it. Not the best site on the net, maybe the worst.

2 nights in a row with an obviously bogus doesn't exist player.

How long will the insanity go on?

Part 3

Unfortunately I did not get to sit at my favorite table tonight. The table was full, I joined the wait list on Mr. ridiculous 800+k and before any seats opened the Vacuum had wiped them out and there where 4 active players left. So, I settled on my second choice.

Phase one of the game - An ace every three hands. Flops sucked. No surprise. Phase Two - 21 hands with two aces. I'm surely not going to be into that too much. Then after an hour and a half of patience I score. Not the mega chips that the Vacuums get, but a plus of a bout 90k for the night.

I recently warned you about new players to the table. This night did not quite fit the perfect profile, but it's still significant.

I would imagine that most peeps have a real life, unlike me, and maybe they get to indulge in poker one or two nights a week. Play a couple of hands. Drink some beers. Take the dog for a walk. Kiss the wife. Play with the kids. And you never get the chance to see how deeply and stupidly wrong internet poker is. I hate being proven right all the time, except I'm a deer caught in the headlights - it's so obviously bogus I can't imagine what kind of idiot would play for real money.

I read a sports betting magazine on how to pick a good poker site. They quoted how, "Many or most sites use robots to cheat." Well, duh. They even cheat on the free money games. If I was playing on a baby table I wouldn't have to put up with this, but when I play on the highest stakes available I get constantly bombarded with irrational play.

Last night on Absolute I sat at a greatly irrational table. MISSANNIE was one of the Vacuums. Later in the night, HEYYOUITSBLU sits. Four or five hands later HEY posts something like "Hi Annie!" After four or five hands she FINALLY noticed a friend. My what a surprise, the next hand Annie hits a Royal Flush and the expected, "Wow what a great hand" conversation ensues. Then strangely, (not) the play several more hands without even acknowledging each others existence.

This doesn't just insinuate rigged, it screams aloud, "LOOK AT ME<>

Now, what's the problem with this table? First off, BERN was a new entry that immediatley made me worry about a new Vacuum. Secondly, the same avatar has popped up recently, I think the player name was something like "DutchCountry" Thirdly, and this is the killer - you don't even exist.

And I've proven it. I'm sitting at the same freaking table as you. and you don't exist? This is a perfect example of why new players to the table need to be treated with skepticism. The admins can manufacture them instantly, no registration process to go through, no fighting to gain the 20k you posted at the table, you're just 'there.'

And I still won!

Surviving Omaha Hi-lo on the internet, part two

For starters, this table has way too many chips to be believable, and they're spread out over several positions. The problem isn't the big chip stacks. The problem is that there are so many Feeders to support them. One would tend to think eventually they would run out of chips and give up and go gardening. But instead, they have nothing better to do but dip into their infinite chip stack and raise.

PLAYEROFTHEYEAR was the first victim at this table. Let's call him a "Defective Vacuum" at least temporarily. Lost it all to NED the first hand I sat at. Kinsey followed. NED turtled up and started playing smart and later in the night banked 1.5 mill. Player, Kinsey and a succession of new players to the tables all made there way through some small wins, but for the most part ended up donating their winnings back tot he chip leaders.

You guys really have three major public relations problems to deal with. Where did the Feeders get these chips to constantly keep losing so much? And who do I have to blow to not be worried about chips and go all in on every hand? (Like you taunt me and want me to do at times.) How do you explain that the Vacuums get great hole cards and matching flops for like 5 hands in a row? It's just not statiscally reasonable. Finally, again, if it's this screwed up on the free money tables, why would I play with real money? OK, let me get this, you're supposedly this awesome poker Omaha god that can go all in every hand and reasonably expect to win, and you're wasting your time annoying me on the free money tables. You could be winning millions of dollars playing real money, but it's more important to you to sit for hours at the same table as me.

For others players and the primer -

The Vacuums can and do switch. Evil admin can change the settings. It makes it harder to figure out, but it's not impossible. Reset the one ace and one hand that would have one rule to zero and start again.

Always fold after every hand won. They hate it when you interrupt the normal flow they have preset.

Call small bets and turn the rest of the table into an all-in fest that you fold on. Make the Vacuums play against each other.

Admit to yourself despite any wholehearted belief that it's for real and scramble for cover. I'll do the busting.

Of course it is

Of course it's rigged. No reason to get testy about it. You just need to understand the ground rules and adjust your play. Or give up and take up another game. Or just be another feeder in the grand evil admin masterplan.

Here's the first part of my primer on how to survive at high stakes free money Omaha Hi-Lo on the internet. Because virtually every site cheats the same way.

First of all, don't do what I do in one respect - I purposefully search out the tables with the most chips, especially those where someone, and even up to 3 or 4 positions have way more than the max buy in. Because they are always so unreasonable and so easily busted.

There are two types of AI postitions Feeders and Vacuums. They have one thing in common - an infinite chip stack. Feeders abound and they are silly because they keep losing and coming back for more. Not only do they call every hand, they usually raise. Then lose. Then rebuy. Repeat. Vacuums are rigged to get great cards and win an irrational number of hands. The most dangerous and unreasonable tables are Vacuums that also constantly raise. Think Bigbadbrad from several posts ago.

If you want to earn a modest amount of chips it's still possible if you follow my rules.

1) Don't seriously get in on any hands until two criteria are met. One hand folded that would have won. One ace dealt. This gets rid of the pre-programmed "player that can't lose" scenario. I have gone into the 20s without being dealt an ace. On Omaha where you get four cards. This happens on UB more than any other site. Somehwere along the road, usually between 10 and 20 hands, the pre-programmed nonsense ends and something almost resembling real poker starts. This is counter-intuitive, the natural reaction is to play from hand 1, get screwed over and lose all your chips.

2) Don't ever raise until you have the nuts or near nuts after the river. To say that play on these tables is "loose" is a generous understatement. There will always be a Feeder to raise the pot for you.

3) When a Vacuum makes a bet, take it seriously and fold. Unless no Feeders are in on it. Then you might be safe to give it a call.

4) Don't get distracted by what you think are incompetent players. The sites are extremely fond of making Vacuums out of innocuos positions. This will come off as sounding sexist, so go ahead and hate me - the "hot slutty chick" and the player on full tilt are usually feeders, be careful of them until they lose a couple of hands before you decide to try and "prove yourself."

5) Beware of new players to the table. Get out of the first hand they play in. More often than not they turn out to be a Vacuum. Many times they leave the table after a few hands of making a big score.

6) Be prepared to fold. A lot. Understand the standards of what is a decent hand and stick with it. The global assumption is that Omaha smooths out the good vs. bad hands and that every hand should be called, or raised on. Simply not true. Some hands are rags from the get go and need to be folded pre-flop. Then when you're in the initial 20 hands with no ace and didn't fold a single hand that would have won you can quietly smile to yourself when they taunt you on how bad you are. Just last week I had the "Oohhh....he must think it's real money" comment. Bullsnot. I hadn't folded a single hand that would have won at that time.

7) Annoy the cheating admin at every opportunity. Time out. Post some vague and unflattering chat. (But no vulgarity like this guy.) Other than this, don't chat at all. They get off on the flameouts, and silence is very golden here. Picture a guy or girl who has the job of policing a table with his eight AI positions against your one real human and how phenomenally boring that must be. I'd toggle cheat mode, too.

8) Never play for real money. Why take a rake when you can win the whole thing.

Apparently UB recently got involved in a whole thing scam. No surprise to me.

Peggysue

I think I'm in love with you. Because as far as I can tell you are the new Freckledmom.

You WHINED. About how AP needs to clean up the tables. And from the time I first started watching you and playing at tyhe same table your chip stack kept growing and growing. You banked it, sat in again and more chips thrown your way. Then you sat at the table a third time, and surprisingly things didn't go to well.

Yes, AP needs to clean up the tables. It's obvious BS. When the admins do the whining it's freaking hilarious. You got me for 200k the last few weeks, but I still have more than 2.5 million and I will be visiting you. Often. My new policy - search for what looks to be the most unreasonable game in town and park my ass at that table. You're up on my radar screen.

The continued lack of acknowledgement of my existence is also a hoot. On the third sit at the table Peggy lost it all and I posted a rare message - "PeggySue got Buried." No "shut up you stupid moron." No, "Hey that was a funny "Peggy Sue got Married" parody. Just nothing. UB (owned by the same people) also has a policy of ignoring my existence.

I am sooooooo not impressed

200 million chips. Do you think I care? Do you think that makes you look good? Does it matter to you that I've played over a thousand hands in the past couple weeks and people just raise, raise, raise?

Don't freasking throw out a chip stack like this if you want to impress me. Maybe folding a hand pre-flop would.

I do have 2.8 million chips

So expect me to linger around despite two aces in 32 hands of Omaha....frigging stupid.

You really have to be kidding

But tempered by the fact that I go looking for trouble.

Indeed, I gravitate towards the table with the most chips on it. Not trying to win those chips. It's just that those are the tables that are the most unreasonable. And on Absolute tofday this was golden. Forget that it was all in every hand. Forget that this all in nonsense is now universally called lotto instead of bingo. Forget that the idle chit chat did not acknowledge me winning 110k in one hand.

Just enjoy the rule breaks.

I've "played" against JPBurch several times. And at several different times of the day. I've searched his tables because there's been a lot of indications he's the new Freckledmom- raise and win.

If I'm sitting right next to you, aren't you in the cardroom??

LFOL

Sat at a table with two players over 200k (max nuy in 20k) and within two hands they were gone.

Glad I have your attention

Please stop with the taunting. Not because it's lame or bothers me. It just makes you look silly. In Omaha high low when I get dealt two aces in 47 hands I deserve to fold without being called a chicken.

By now you MUST be aware that I tend to sit at the tables where the largest chip stacks are, because the play on these are the most unreasonable. Which turns me on, big boy. Because eventually you do something stupid like taunt me for folding and bring out players with huge freaking stacks, like I'm supposed to be impressed. It works the opposite way - I think, wow, if you're this good, why aren;t you playing for real money.

Lately, my existence has been unacknowledged. Lots of "nhs" and "tys" floating around. I expect the fact that I'm not acknowledged is supposed to bother me. It doesn't.

Maybe you need to shut down too many AI tables and make it just enough that a reasonable number of interested humans could fill. Even when I lose there are dozens of other "players" that have contributed far more to me than the big stags.

Lately on Absolute they have been trading or cheating and adding chips to the leaders without therm winning hands. I don't care who has the big stack.....I can fold to you the same as the others. Silly.