Dear CityPoker, Part 2

Let's start out with Insiders Betting Digest's article on how to choose a poker site that won't cheat you. At first I emphasized the section that referenced how most sites use 'bots to cheat you. The implication is that CityPoker, ergo, does not.

Here's what they say about "Critical Mass" being important to choosing a poker site (directly from the magazine) -

"You don't want to join a poker room and then find out there's no ome else to play against. There should be a minimum of 500 concurrent tables and 100 games playing at once. The more players at a specific site, the more games to play in. This means no long waits for a tournament to fill up or hoping that maybe tonight there will actually be some players at the Omaha tables. An abundance of players usually also equates to an abundance of new or bad players, which is a plus for your bankroll."

Then, why does this site offer obviously fraud filled free money tables? I've spent a little over three weeks here. And using the time honored tricks of taking vacation time and messing up my sleep schedule I continue to see the same names at the Omaha Hi-Lo tables at 2am, 5am, 8am, 12:30pm, 4pm, 7pm...welll, you get the point. In fact, this site's "stable" of fake 'bots is far smaller than any site I've busted. Pokerstars, Absolute and Full Tult are the worst for filling up the tables and showing you in the lobby that there are multiple 10s of thousands of "players" at the site. Tonight, City had no one playing 7 stud, 3 people playing Omaha Hi, and my table I purposefully picked because with a 10k max buy in, there's WAAAAYYYY too many chips at this table.

And the "poker" by these "players" was so ridiculous as to be laughable.

1) MyLife raised on everysingle hand except a three hand break in the middle of twenty.

2) There was a big pre-flop raise on every single hand in that stretch of twenty.

3) Every single hand, other than me, that had an ace at least called if not raised when it had an ace.

4) I was dealt a ridiculous number of aces (10 hands out of 25 had an ace) and I shared a pot in one. I only folded one that would have shared - two KKs on the board when my pocket eights would have won KK88 over KK77 - a very crappy high hand for Omaha Hi-Lo. Combined with the stupid raising it was obvious the cards were rigged to get me to waste my chips by betting instead of just the occasional call. You should know by know raising is something that happens for me once in a blue moon.

5) Chat is disabled when someone goes all in. Since there were so many hands with a player all in there's a very small window to post chat at times. Please give a logical explanation on how within a fraction of a second after a hand finished someone hand managed to type 15 or so characters on what a nice hand the winner had. (Hint, you can't - it's impossible.)

Maybe what you guys need to do is just stop offering the oddball games and only offer Texas Hold'em. Because, I will pop up ANYWHERE. Last night I sat in on 100-200 7 stud Hi-Lo fixed limit on Full Tilt and for an hour I was met with -

1) A "player" that raised every single opportunity.

2) Another position that complained about what a jackass "he" was.

3) 2 other postions (with their ohhhhhhh so scary 500,000 bankrolls) defending the jackass and saying ludicrous things about how he, "only raises when he has three low cards." Well, no, he didn't have every single hand dealt to him with three low cards. I'm not sure if the position from #2 was legitimately upset or just part of the scam. And the no aces in the first 22 hands things certainly looked a little weird.

So City, and the rest of you idiots, please remember. I'm competent. Focused. Your on my radar screen. If you can't make it look for real, just don't even offer the table.