Friday, January 23, 2009

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.

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