Dragging it out.

Hi there, it's me again. Not much, how 'bout you? I'm not sure really why I called. I really just wanted, to fold to you. And I was thinking maybe later on. We could get together for a while. You see I really do miss this trial.

I'm not talking about all-in. And I don't want to change your life. But there's some bogus cards floatin' round. And I really do miss this site.

(With apologies to whomever that song I parodied is from.)

Full Tilt has been lacking my attention lately. Not because the site is so horrid I can't stand to play there. The opposite is true. The worse it gets, the more that you come up on my radar screen. And since I've been having sooooo much fun on PokerStars lately playing bizarre games like 2-7 single draw lowball and Badugi I haven't been here much.

This sit and go reinforced several things about the wickedness of the free money games on these sites.

Registering and Sitting Out
On PokerStars, you can see the sitters clearly identified as sitting out. On Full Tilt, you need to recognize that they are sitting out by folding every bet. This helped me win enough hands to finish third and in the money. This is early in the game. Iron has the audacity to school the moron going all in and breaking his pocket aces with his two pair. OK, Mr. Expert. Explain these two things to me. Why did you even call the blinds with 85 offsuit, and then after winning that one hand you sat out the rest of the game?!?

Let me take a wild guess I've never posted here before (sarcasm) - AI. Fill those tables up, get the game going before the two year olds give up and leave.

Also from old posts and being bumped here-

I find it very strange that on PokerStars single draw 2-7 hi-lo and Full Tilt 2 table games of Hold'em that the game almost always plays out the same way. I play conservatively while getting asinine cards and draws, get short stacked and then make a big comeback. Thyer's no way that I can finish in the (play) money on something like 40 out of 50 sit and goes when I have the smallest stack in the game at one point.

Theory -
Buckling to complaints that there's too many all-ins on the early hands, the game is rigged to have AI win early. Survivors are rewarded.

So the game drags out with one or two humans with intelligence playing against AI and what should take an hout to complete takes two hours and 15 minutes. Because unlike AI, I do need to snatch a couple hours of sleep every once in a while.

But, it's still not random cards.