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.