New game to bust on. I'll worry about sleep later

First off, thanks to my real human friends. Rick, Dave, Tim, Lou, Shawn, etc... Tonight was a great change of pace despite only winning $11. Playing against real people instead of AI is very refreshing.

Unfortunately and apparently my pre-game nap was a little too long and I was too wired to go to sleep right away when I got home. And I'm still wired now, probably because it was my first real poker table in 1 1/2 years.

I've played enough of this game, and my own math smarts tell me that if you are drawing more than 2 cards you are probably holding a loser. Very unsurprsing, this tourney had lots of heavy betting and what looked like trading chips among the active positions instead of real poker. I folded my way to first, again.

I settle in to PokerFrauds 5 card draw Lowball. My current game of choice because, well DUH!, it's bogus. On a hand that the dumb ass should have been gone on when I raise with my legit good hand. and lots of other players on the table... no he doesn't fold. He stays in and draws four cards.

This would be OK if this was a 2000 chip buy in. But this was a 10k buy in game. If you have enough chips to play a 10k buy in game and you're a real person and don't have an infinite chip stack and maybe, just maybe you want to play some competitve poker......

Xenu779

90k+ chips.

What the fuck are you going to do about it?

PS...something like 5 million chips on the other sites.

Freckledmom strikes again

So many tables to bust, and so little time.

I've loaded up all the known Absolute "racers" onto my UltimateBuddy list of buddies. They're really anti-buddies. Obviously fraudulent positions. Not even a whisper of real poker at those tables, so it's always a good giggle for me. Freckledmom is a buddy also. Freckled doesn't play the 100% true style of race tables. Freckledmom just raises a lot and keeps winning.

There was a period of a couple of weeks where Freck ran into a rough stretch and started playing on the baby tables instead of 20,000 buy in tables. Prior to the baby table play Freck played the 20k tables and was one of the biggest losers - literally millions of chips. I saw it, because I'm almost just as likely to sit and observe as the situation dictates.

I almost missed this gem. When I first observed the table my buddy Freck was on, she had 200k+, someone else had 90k. Two other positions had 20k+ My assumption was that it was a 50-100 blinds 20k max buyin table. Considering my recent success in Elim Blackjack and wanting to play some cards I went to that. Made the final table, finished fourth just out of the money, and wasted a little bit of time. Wasted more time losing a couple of games of fraudulent chess, logged back into UB and checked up on Freck. Wow, still over 200k. Time for me to sit at this table and see how many statiscally unreasonable hands she wins out of the number played.

Imagine my surprise when I find that it's a 5-10 blinds 2k max buy-in table. This is the equivalent of Frck having 2.5 million chips on a 20k buy-in table against a crap load of feeders more than willing to lose all their chips to her.

I think my best score ever on Absolute was less than a million and it took me 5 hours to do it. And there was no bingo in sight, which was a definite feature of this table, which is a definite feature of every table out there regardless of what site you play.

And as soon as I sat down....She was gone. Tell me (with sincerity) that this isn't weird.

An acheivement that would take a real human to accomplish in 24 hours + of non-stop poker. And you finally leave the table when I sit in.

Well, you should be scared. I obviously got the screenshot of the BS. But, as always, things don't get better for the real humans. I stayed at the table for quite some time. And it became obvious that there was a promotion and a new vacuum was at the table. Augie2 won something like 9 out of the first ten hands on all-in bingo.

Vaccuums and feeders. And you're not going to see me play seriously until this all in nonsense is cleaned up. So go ahead and taunt me when I fold. It will be just another great screenshot.

As for my Racer Buddies on the list. No games in three dyas in a row or more. I've only checked them the last three days. Awww, PUNTANGSUE, LINDAHAYES, et al. Finally find something better to do with your life than going all in? I doubt it. Pretty soon there will be an update that adds the new bogus names to the database.

Retrograde part 3

And this is what every single time you play Elim BJ. Everyone is betting heavy racing to try and take control of the table.

I will give credit to UB on how this isn't working for them, and how it's working for me.

I won't give them any credit on how the whole site is RAISE, RAISE, RAISE and maybe just for a change of pace, I think I'll raise.

Now, just even a few weeks ago, I used to be able to finish my bogus table, which very strangely my table almost always finishes first, and then I'd check out what is going on with these other tables. Now, when I click on one of these other buttheads names, I'm sent back to me waiting with the one or two other players that qualified.

But I can still the chips in the reg screen. And it's obvious there's a lot of heavy betting and dealer sucking going on. Weirdly, during my amazing recent run, the Monty Haul big bets dealer couldn't buy a hand if his life depended on it, doesn't work at the table I'm on, but it always works at the other tables.

Allright, let's work these posts retrograde. For the uninititaed this means start at the end product and work your way back to the beginning.

This is a final table of Elimination Blackjack. 6 players have struggled mightly (cough cough) to get to this point - three tables of seven where two each advance. It's only four hands deep, two are gone and two are running seriously low. Easiest and fastest second place finish in my life. Other than waiting for the other two tables to get their two winners to the final table.

I'm smart enough to know that my incredible run of success in blackjack here in recent history is far from normal. It's been freaky weird something like 15 out of 19 final tables and 13 out of 15 finishing in the money. The laws of statistics say that even if I'm skilled (which I am) that with a basically fifty-fifty blackjack game something weird is going on.

I use UB Elim BJ as a time filler while farting around on the net, especially other poker sites. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it incorporates all the heavy raising that makes internet poker generally intolerable. I like to bet like I was sitting at a real money table and the mortgage on the house was on the table. OK, bad example, I have no mortgage. But I think you get my point. I'm competitive. Challenge me. Don't play bingo, let's play real cards.

And Elim BJ also suffers from the overaggressive all in mentality exemplified by this table. And this is weird, whe a player doesn't make a big raise on the first hand, it's because they time out. And this is weird, they're almost always the bookends, the 1st and last positions to make a bet. KInda like an admin in control of a full table other than me is hedging the bets.

You really must be kidding

PokerFrauds has been down all afternoon/night. And they've had friendly messages about being sorry for the trouble.

And some dumb ass bounces in to a locked table and whines about playing with these losers. Except, no play has gone on for two hours.

And the chat just keeps going on like it's idle conversation during a game.

I don't count, since my purpose in life is to find stuff like this. But, if you weren't AI would you really sit at a table for two hours waiting for it to come live? Wouldn't you maybe play Duke Nuke'em or hearts or eat food, or have some fun with the girlfriend, or just about anything other than sitting at the poker site and posting chat?

Too much bingo

Probably nobody more than me knows that there's too much bingo. I've sat in for hours on tables where there's no talent, throw all the chippies into the pot games. I've proven to my own satisfaction that this is a losing strategy. Dropped 500k in half an hour on Absolute. So, when (ha ha, this always is there) this happens I tend to express my disgust by timing out.

Not sportsmalike, but perfectly within the rules.

And since I'm playing against an admin with a table full of rigged AI, I get to see some really stupid stuff.

I'm using a new computer to play on PokerFrauds because this one has a registry value embedded that I'm not allowed to make a new account. So, let's pretend I'm a new player to PokerFrauds and I'm going to decide what to name myself. I can only name myself once. Even if I'm going to play bingo. Shall I be John347? Fireman2? skalhidsufhgiugahruieghui? (someone after a real bad night.)

Or, maybe for my first game at PokerFrauds I'll call myself "toomuchbingo."

And, I prefer the slutty chick trying to impress me over the I live near you cheat. Try harder.

Let me guess

I can't only play Omaha. Not just for my own sanity, but I have to keep these morons on their toes.

I bought into a 5k 200+ player tourney. Fixed limit HORSE.

Let's rewind to five years ago. At one time in my life I used to constantly be at the starter 1000 chips. grew to 2000 and bought in on the huge multi-table games on PokerFrauds. Now that I'm a lot poker smarter and an expert on the bs, I wanted to see if things just might have been cleaned up.
No way.

It's still a bunch of vacuum and feeder AI.

This HORSE table had just changed to Razz. While playing Hold'em, I had kicked the butt of the "player" next to me where my pocket kings wasted his pocket queens. Hark76 is in on a hand that he shouldn't be. Didn't fold. The jackwipe raises.

bigpa was in on and raised on every hand and should have been toast, but no, magically he gets a big score because not just him, but the whole table (other than me) thinks it's time to call an obvious killer hand.

So let me guess how you defend this. Buds on the cellphone?

What PokerStars did wrong this week

Inconsistency.

As blogged, like every other site the poker community on Omaha Hi-Lo was playing bingo every single hand. I purposefully sat in on 50+ tables and proved that you couldn't get into a game without an all-in bet for TWO WEEKS. And magically, after a bogus 7-2 5 card draw tourney tonight I sit in on a fairly reasonable Omaha game. And last night, there was a fairly reasonable no all-in Omaha game. I see a trend.

And considering I had a "There's an update" message a couple of nights ago I have to consider.

Maybe, just maybe....I'm not playing against real people. Maybe, just maybe I'm playing against AI.

Maybe, just maybe, the rest of the table can be consistent and some folks play with intelligence and some play like idiots instead of going all in every hand.

Maybe, just maybe, I can sit at a table where reason prevails and there's no all-ins except one goofball.

Maybe, just maybe, when I do kick someone's butt you could post an "nh" since you did it for someone else. (Don't need the love, just weird that everyone is friends with each other except me.) No. Actually this is the problem. You're locked up against a database that an admin is in charge of, they hate to lose and they rig the game to make it so they win.

Divdie the number of players shown as playing online by 10,000 and add 250. That's probably realistically more like the actual number of real humans playing on the site. Then subtract off something like 25 to 50 for the admins and you have a database of real poker players trying to play to win while the admins can toggle cheat mode and screw you whenever they want.

Hmmm...that's weird

Logged out and logged back in over half an hour. Curiously, after a new update was loaded onto my machine. Curiously, the 2 and 3 table games don't actually play. Curiously, I'm allowed to play on the single table game. Curiously, I am allowed to play on the single table game. Curiously, some of the same players I've feasted on in my recent +20k blackjack run are at the two and three table games.

Curiously, I'm starting to think this isn't just a bug, but this might just possibly be rigged.

I actually played Hold'em on Full Tilt instead of Omaha no limit. I did net 26k for a 1 1/2 hour time investment. Nice change of pace.

Curiously, I was short stacked on my 35th out of 40 two table games that I made a comeback on. Curiously, I got really bad cards. Curiously, well no, let's give FT some cred. Other than some early heavy raising it wasn't too bad. I was amused how my marginal first hand would have scored big time and I wouldn't have been short stacked after calling stupid all-ins. But real poker doesn't mean you just go all in on the first hand, cross your fingers and pray.

I'm on to you. You can't win.

Picture this. Someone sits in on about 100 hundred 2k max buy in tables no limit Omaha for over 40 hours. I did it this weekend. And there's an all-in preflop raise on every single hand. Hundreds of hands and dozens of players that think that this is the way the game is supposed to be played.

That's what I did last weekend. Popped around trying to find some sorry ass site that would actually allow real poker. Combine the all-ins with statiscally unreal nonsense like 23 hands without one that would have been a winner.

Guys, I get it. I'm not playing Hold'em. I'm not supposed to see the strange weirdness. I'm supposed to think I suck at this game and move on.

And now that you've pissed me off I'm going to do more of the same.

Burn off you're pre-programmed AI. Burn off the new sitters at the table by massive folding. And I'll still gain 20k chips a day, unless you're smart enough to re-rig the Elimantion Blackjack. I have made the final table in something like 13 out of 17 tourneys the last three nights, and I've finished in the money on something like 11 of them. And you keep giving me great screenshots on the absolutely stupid play that goes on. I'm so bored right now, I don't even have one I want to post.

Now wait just minute

Just wait one rigged to the gills dangit minute.

Now, even my skills can't possibly stand to play against the constant all-in nonsense that pervades the Omaha Hi Lo on every single site. And, I literally mean all of them. Full Tilt, UB, Absolute, PokerStars, CityPoker, the ten sites I'll bust in the next couple of years.

There's no way that evryone thinks that going all-in every hand is the way to play this. And there's no way that I should sit in on a table and play 23 hands and not have a single winner. I always get to see the showdown, and I get to see that my cards were losers. It's not like I'm folding hands that would have won.

Months ago, I latched onto UB and their fradulent Elimination Blackjack. I gained damn near 15 k playing this tonight. Not particularly because of skill, but because I recognize the system and how the AI is programmed. And the game has changed from the early days. It used to be far too often that the table was a "Monty Haul" where betting all in was rewarded. Just like Omaha Hi-Lo.

Since I'm so active on these bogus free money games I get to see a lot of stupid bets. FreckledMom. LindaHayes, PuntangSue. Etc... Etc... Etc... And the Elimantion Blackjack has their own dumbass obvious stupid piece of crap obvious AI position.

I've "played" against JD Shipley tons of times before. Logically, one would think that if JD knew what he was doing he'd have some sense of playing with a reasonable amount of skill. Sadly, the jackwipe is just another rigged AI position that does stupid crap like take a hit on a blackjack. Twice. Seriously.

I was dumbfounded on the first. The second just proved that something other than real card play was going on.

And, 100k+ on a max 2k buy in table.

This is way too easy.

Nothing new

Just more of the same old rigged poker idiocy.

I checked out a lot of tables on Pokerfrauds today. And I mean something like 50. On purpose, because every single table had a preflop raise. Every single hand. Rasise your hand if you can say, "AI."

A normal person would have lost all their chips and never seen this. But by gosh golly, I'm not a normal person, On one rigged table, not just one but two people whined about not having chips. They used them to feed the obvious vacuum. I sent chips to both of them, but it looks like the transfer wasn't made. I wanted to see if they would continue playing like lunatics.

One of my tricks I like to call "Operation Sit and Go." Sit at a table, play at most one hand and leave. Curiously, regardless of which site, the table becomes the hottest action in town. A side benefit of Operation Sit and Go and sitting in on dozens of tables - you get to pop in on a table that the math doesn't work.

Like I said, nothing new. KW has over 100k on a 2k buy in table. In real life, even as a fun money game with random cards it would take a ridiculous amount of time to amass this stack. But, there are feeders and vacuums. What I need to know is who to kiss up to become a vacuum.

The JD Shipley incident

A blackjack player that can't lose. Check out these catches.

A break in the normal routine - time to be short stacked

Over five different sites, normally someone can find me parked at a bogus Omaha Hi-Lo table, but I'm not a one trick pony. This is a "bump" to re-post some old thoughts about Full Tilt that were posted long ago.

Instead of Omaha, I play two table no-limit Hold'em on Full Tilt (mostly.) And since they hadn't gotten any love from me for awhile, I figured it was their turn. The payoff for finishing in the top three is great. #4 gets you some chips, but nothing worth writing home to Mom about.

What's wrong is that almost every single game plays out the same of two ways.

You're either short stacked and end up losing. Or youre short stacked, patient and miraculously make the big comeback and get that fuzzy warm feeling that the 1 1/2 to 2 hours of your life wasn't a complete waste of time. These games are the most catalogued with my trust pen and pad of paper.

20 hands before my first ace. I have less chips than everyone else. I finally get my expected run of half decent cards. I make it to the final table. I'm going to guess that about 3/4s of the time I finish in the money somewhere at this point. Upset at me being away so long, all 23 hands I was in on the final table (and finished sixth) had no aces. Overall, 3 hands in 71 with an ace.

Go ahead Full Tilt employees. Look up the hand histories. And see how in the first 4 hands at the final table my highest card was an 8, with no pairs and all were offsuit. In 71 hands, I should have had 10 or 11 with an ace. It's not just like I went all in at the first semi-decent hand and didn't get to count this up. In fact, I'm sooner to fold a decent hand to see exactly how long this insanity goes on.

But, what's really weird, is that almost every single game plays out with the same pattern. I've targeted these sit and go's because of this. I've played about 40 of them, and I've probably been short stacked in 35 without folding hands that would have been winners.

If you can't populate the game with real people, you shouldn't offer it. And I still have over 100k chips.

This blog has received international attention

I'm not bragging about that, merely stating a fact.

I do not need positive feedback to validate what I've seen and my own skill. I know how to play poker. And I'm probably lights out a genuine Omaha Hi-Lo genius. My friend, let's call him "Jack" (not his real name) is the reason I do what I do. Jack got cheated on PokerStars. I told him he was wasting his time even playing online poker. Jack is a computer guy for a living, and set me up with this.

It's been the most frigging fun I've ever had in my life.

Now, what is disappointing is that I haven't been attacked in ages. 1 1/2 years ago when I started this I thought surely that there would be hardcore poker pros and employees of the sites just spewing massive volumes of filth on what an idiot I am. I've only been attacked once. Maybe. Just maybe. Because I'm right?

I welcome that. Again, I'm confident in my ability. Both straight up poker and bogus poker. I'd like to see some replies to my comments. Jack put the map up. Some viewers are really from towns close to the major cities I post here, but the ClusterMap can't determine this.

US
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Las Vegas
Denver
New York
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Dallas
Atlanta
Orlando
Cleveland
Indianapolis

Outiside US
Perth
Singapore
Johannesburg
Rio De Janeiro
Beijing
London
Toronto
Winnipeg
France (Verdun?)
Georgia (ex- S0viet Russia?)

Okay, let's review a couple of facts I can prove

And then let's throw in some slapdash speculation on why there is so much cheating on the free money tables.

General Facts - and the screen shots are here to prove it.

1) AP and UB have merged.

2) UB had a bunch of accounts obviously created on the fly as a parody of my table name - the old Rtch1 account. Richerone, Richest, Richone2. And the vulgar one's telling people to eat bodily excretios and some such nonsense. Not surprisingly, those didn't actually make it to the table. And this is damaging, because if you went the through the whole process of creating a new account and validating it, you might as well at least play the 1000 free chips instead of making your name statement then disappearing. Same for the parodies.

3) Both sites have joke names show up to complain about abnormal play. If you fold a lot on Absolute you get to play against "FACKINGCHICKEN." If you timeout every hand on UB, you get to play against "TURTLE XING." Turtle may have been created on the fly, but Chicken has been around for years.

4) There are some obviously strange player names. Like all those mentioned above. Chicken on AP, Pustule, Carbuncle, Acne, all the other synonyms of acne. You could call yourself Joe719, but you settled on "Pustule" instead. As a gesture of defiance I am Pustule on CityPoker, and in months of play only one person has ever acknowledged it as being stupid.

And no matter what site, the play on Omaha Hi-Lo no limit is ridiculously aggressive. Kind of like the outcome of the hand is known before the flop is ever played. Knowing this, I follow my rules. No raising. The feeders, like my good ol' friend Freckledmom has degenerated into, will do it for you. Don't play anything remotely seriously until you have gotten at least one ace and have folded a hand that otherwise would have won. Don't play seriously when the chit chat is insane. Don't declare operating loss tax carryforwards from depreciable items declared on previous tax years. (The IRS hates that.)

So tonight's table was yet another massive fold session. With Freckled on board, and the first I've seen her in ages, it was no surprise. I've spent so much time on PokerStars the past few weeks I had given AP a break.

The ace receiving rule was picked up early. But kind of strange. My first four hands with an ace each had two of 'em. And every single one had an ace appear in the community cards. Three of them were solid embarrassing losers. One might have been a folded winner with AAA99, but that guy sure bet like he had 4 of a kind. As there were no callers, the "hand folded that would have won" rule wasn't met.

A couple of hands later that rule is finally met. Therefore on hand 24 of the night with yet another pair of aces I go ahead and play bingo with these idiots and win 95k. And then, the very next hand, "CANUPEAK" shows up at the table.

OK, let me guess this right.

You've been playing long enough to get the max buy in of $20,000 you sat in on with, and you picked a stupid name that no one in their right mind would probably use. And coincidentally, it's directly after the only hand I won all night. And you came on like gangbusters and won 60k within like 5 hands.

Are you either:

1) Accusing me of cheating?

2) Bragging that you can cheat?

3) Some idiot that couldn't think of a real username, and you even used PEAK, instead of PEEK?

Or, someone please explain to me how "CANYOUREACHTHESUMMIT" shortened to fewer characters is a really cool user name that someone would want to pick? I'm going to have to raise the "bullshit" card on this one. Very dubious.

I would prefer to mess with PokerStars for a bit more. But, this is you're choice AP. Do you really want to stay up on my radar screen? You also had some bogus race tables with the non-existent PUTANGSUE 'playing.'

Your choice. Stop the BS pre-flop raises, let me win a statiscally realistic number of hands and I promise you I'll go away and retire with my 3 million chips. Keep cheating and, well, since I'm smarter than you I'll probably find some new and devious ways to mess with you and/or use my 7 year plus garnered bag of tricks to prove my point.

Keep using that home court advantage

And that home court advantage is huge. Before addressing the specifics of the screenshots, I want to post on the other things that were wrong with this table I sat in on for a little over an hour.

Bingo. Again. My what a surprise. You can't play on any site without every single table playing all-in bingo on Omaha hi lo. The math of bingo does not work, because statiscally you keep going all in it's a break even. Why it does work is because there are a constant supply of feeders. I'm confident it's badly programmed AI, but let us assume it's real people.

What am I going to do for entertainment tonight? Take the dog for a walk? Make soup? Read a book? Play poker? Yeah! That would be fun! Since I'm not a very good player, when I log in to PokerStars, I have to start with the a measly $1000. That's not good. I need more. Ergo, bingo. I'll go all in and even though the table is full, maybe, just maybe, I'll catch on the river. Ooops. That didn't work. I'll have to reload my free chips, which I'm allowed to do twice more each hour. Repeat.

I can almost understand this mentality. You can amuse yourself for 15 minutes before you finally walk the dog. But this doesn't explain why people rebuy with the table maximum of 2000 chips and play the same stupid way. And I've seen people lose tens of thousands of chips playing bingo without concern for their supply of chips. So, let's assume you have a couple hundred thousand chips, you got really drunk and decided to play on what is a relatively low level 5/10 no limit game and you just want to go all in every hand before going to sleep. One person, yep, I can understand that. Bingo versus a couple dozen 'players' with that same mentality, no. You have been rewarded in the past by feeding on the feeders, so you take advantage of it.

During the bingo, this table had the statiscally improbable two consecutive winners with four aces. This just screams out "rigged".

This table had players with a massive mood swing that decided, I'm not going to play bingo anymore. This was about 45 minutes into the game.

Before I left a player shows up with the name "toomuchbingo". After the bingo had stopped. Naturally I had been folding like crazy.

The screenshots were during the bingo. As I've been playing these tables for the past few weeks, I've done something I've done on other sites. As the blinds reduce my stack during my massive folding sessions, I reload so that just in case they graciously allow me a winner, I get to go all in with $2000 instead of $1688. Or, I have $2400 I've called a $1000 all in and I know I'm going to lose. I want to get that stack back up to the table max so I can maximize the impact of me finally winning a hand.

You're not allowed to do it. If you're in the middle of a hand, you get the error message that you can't refresh your stack in the middle of a hand. But, that's exactly what "is me again" did in the middle of the bingo. If you're an artificial intelligence feeder, you're allowed to break the rules.

If you're AI with an infinite chip stack, you get to play over-aggressive, and you don't have to worry about it.

Huge home court advantage.

I get you in a brick and mortar, I clean you're clock.

OK, one more before the vacation

Time to tie in and reiterate some thoughts about bingo, folding, statistics and taunting. I figured I'd sit in on a table, play 40 hands, win my statistically reasonable share. Then, catch a movie and call it as night. Get up and start thinking about working 60 hours a week this weekend and just settle down, then get back to this in March.

Not surprisingly, my PokerStars table was completely unreasonable.

Bingo, by it's very nature is unreasonable. And that's what I had to put up with for 45 minutes. The problem with the math of bingo is that players (and the tables are almost always completely full) call in on the stupidest shit. The supposed experts have great cards and/or catch on the turn and/or river. They build up big chip stacks which give them the comfort of going all in or at least making a more than modest raise pre-flop on the next hand.

And magically newer players to the table call it and lose. Over and over and over again. So amazingly, there are something like 2 billion people in the world that have nothing better to do with there life than go all in or at least call an all in bet, lose their chips and reload and restart the process without ever playing a single hand of real poker.

I'm not one of those people (yeah, I said people, that's funny.) I will fold almost every single irrational pre-flop bet. This is because I'm competitve, I want to see the chips grow BY PLAYING REAL POKER. Any moron can push their chips all-in. And when you have a rigged table and rigged AI you don't have to think about. Which is actually a pretty funny comment because rigged AI doesn't think. It just accepts the statiscally unreasonable great cards and pushes a huge amount of chips in the pot.

Lots of times I express my distaste for bingo by timing out. I didn't do that tonight. Instead, I just folded an insane amount of hands Sure, some of them would have won. But only if I was dumb enough to call an all-in pre-flop with garbage and mangaed to catch on the river. There's no such thing as buying into a hand with the minimum and seeing a flop. Because a server with an infinite chip stack has nothing to lose.

And admins...gotta love them. Just like the experience of seeing FackingChicken on Absolute, and all the taunting names on Ultimate Blackjack (please refer to earlier posts), PokerStars also doesn't like you folding instead of losing. I'm pretty sure this table has a name taunting me, especially after the constant "play to make me lose instead of playing to win betting strategy." I'm not going to tell you which one yet since I will search and see what they play like in the near future.

Time for a short vacation

Since I am an accountant by trade, and this is the "busy season", I'm going to need to take a break from this for a couple of months. Actually, the vacation should have started two months ago.

The recent return to PokerStars has been unbelievably enjoyable for me. But, these two in the morning log-ins jon the weekednd ust to prove my point have taken a bit of a toll. I was so bored tonight I played 7 card stud; I didn't want to have to think too much.

I can probably manage one table a night for an hour, but since you have to be persistent to see the really weird stuff, this isn;t going to get me alot of great screen shots.

As I leave for this break - Ultimate/Absolute -

It's better, but the blackjack program still needs a bit of a tweak. Just because you are allowed to split cards, doesn't mean you should split cards. The splitting tens thing has calmed down a lot, but every single time the chips are available and there's a pair, the cards get split. This just makes you look stupid when you split 3s when the dealer has an upcard of a king.

And on a final note - the merger - bs.

You've been the same database all the time, haven't you?

Math and names and lions and tigers and bears, oh my

As I've often stated, if you poke around enough, there's always some impossibly big chipstack waiting to confront you. I have to speculate that the reason for this is AI set to play all in, and some AI is worse than others. And these impossistacks (yes, it's a word, even if I just made it up) are on Omaha Hi Lo tables. This is where they get to pretend that they're real people and have an excuse to push their chips all in "bingo". Far less energy required than rigging the hand.

So, on a 2k buy in table, with things on the up and up, how much time would you have to spend to get 120k? Even if you're a poker genius (and then why are you playing on the fun tables?) The math - it requires "players" that feed you.

So, I have to take back my positive PokerFrauds comments. It's still, and always be bs.

There's even "someone" named slowplay - the opposite of bingo that plays bingo. Hey Jackwipe, how did you pick your name? Or where you just created on the fly to make my lkife miserable?

Kudos to PokerStars

Things actually weren't too bad tonight.

I prefer Omaha Hi-Lo. I've discovered that straight up Hold'em is kinda of boring for me. But I am proficient in all forms of poker. And since I want to spread the love around my first table tonight was a 200/400 7 stud Hi-Lo game.

Now, the danger of these tables is that you don't get the inevitable all-ins and see the showdowns on what completely stupid hands people are pushing their chips on. And you never get to know exactly how good your hand was if you fold since you haven't received all your cards. So that reminded me to "bump" old posts regarding how to survive 7 stud Hi-Lo on internet poker.

Still keep in mind the rule about not playing seriously until you've folded a good hand that turns out to be a winner. Again, harder than Omaha since you're already deep into it before you find out you screwed up. New rule for this game - play for the low hand. If you're first three cards don't have at least two or three 8 or under unpaired, it's just not worthwhile.

And why I give the kudos to PokerStars tonight...yeah the early chat was a little nutty, but you didn't do what I expected...every single position going all in every hand. It was so unusual I finally had to leave after a modest gain.

The Hold'em sit and go I was in on next was a little bit more to my liking. A six player table where not surprisingly I ed up seriously short stacked, and being conservative and not having had a pocket pair in over thirty hands I HAVE to push all in with my pair of ACES. Not too long after that, still short stacked, I push in with KQ and the table bully calls with pocket queens. Magically, a K shows on the board, and I'm not just in the game, I'm the leader.

After a lot of unsuccesful "playing to make me lose instead of playing to win play", I eventually secure all I wanted - second place in the money. The final spot other than me played very badly after that, and I took first.

This doesn't change a thing about my opinions.

I have only been here for less than three weeks. My experience has been that there is a courting period to allow you to do well to entice you into switching to the real money tables. The "Free Trial Period." I suspect for now I'm in that. Instead, I'm now darn close to 40k free money chips, and when I get to sit in on the bigger tables, that's where all the really weird stuff happens.

Expect me.

It just doen't matter which site

Upswitch has 109k on a 2k max buy in table. Up raises almost every hand. Up at least calls every hand. Up loses. A lot. Up dropped down into the 60k range before vanishing. Absolute calls this "banking." Save those chips so you get on to the next table and you get to be annoying for the next time. It's really pretty stupid since the math doesn't work out.

109k on a 2k buy in table. Therfore, a net of 50 players under perfect conditions have lost to you.

But, those feeders keep just popping up. Go all-in or raise and lose.

Like posted before, the math isn't about the huge winners, its the losers. "Peeps" so unoncernded about their chips. OHHH it's only play money. I've got 30 bazillion play money because I'm soooooo good. And if you're that good, play for real money.