In my never ending quest to remain not too predictable I've been playing fixed limit 1 table sit and go fixed limit stud Hi-Lo on PokerStars.Yes, I know the rules, I know the strategy. And in the tournaments I've played this week I've received exceptionally crappy cards, at times I thought I might finish in the top three, but it wasn't meant to be.
The usual problems are there. The first several dozen hands are never winners. Playing short stacked eventually you get to the point where you have to consider going all-in (because the limits get huge) and you die by bad beat.
Nice for a change of pace, but for my purposes fixed limit stud doesn't work because I fold before I can see that the winners were raising on crap and I don't know what my final hand was in a no-limit game.
But there are other things to bust on. I have to believe that Stars has recognized my predilection for this game the past few nights. There is only ever one table registering for the sit and go and something like four or five games running.
So as I park myself on the reg screen waiting for a new game to open up, I'm met with this succession of nonsense.
Hunter is "anchored" at the table. Within a period of minutes a parade of players register and unregister for the game. The screenshots don't fully prove this, but I'm sure I (and everyone else) can duplicate this if I(we) want to.
So as I'm watching this I have to reflect on what these other suppossed real humans are doing. Within a matter of 10 seconds or less, I'm going to register for the same tourney that the critic is likely to play at, then I'm going to unregister. Repeat multiple times. The screenshot process takes long enough that there's no way I can catch all of them, but these multiple bogus positions did it over and over and over again.
Even without significant chat (see part two) the games just reek of pre-programmed play.
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