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.
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