The Big Game with Thousands of Players

It's like comfort food for me, without actually paying for the Ben and Jerry's. I know I'm not going to win, so there'sno point in concentrating and putting any real effort into it. It's qualifying for NLOP's weekly 1000 player tournament and pretending that you have a chance to win that leads you to pulling your hair out, getting bad beaten to death and running home and crying to mama that shortens your life span.

This freeroll was a lot more like I expect from PokerStars. A no limit game where someone has over 10,000 chips before my second hand is completed. Their HAC dues are obviously paid up. I find it curious that I was placed on my first table against opponents that were all from the island of Formica. This was obvious from the liberal use of the Acrylic alphabet in their names. Also curious is that as I got moved to different tables more Formicans were there at each.And with the lack of serious play it was obvious they were just using a freeroll to polish there game. (Get it? Polish- Formica - Acrylic?)

Another thing I've noticed that makes absolutely no sense is that the registration screen shows how long you have to wait until you get a seat. And 95% of the time you don't get to sit until the game is actually about to begin. Usually seats are available 2 minutes before the game begins and finally with less than a minute to go you're placed against your mighty Formican opponents. In this case it was 1 minute before the game begins and with less than a minute to go I got my Formican buddies.

If there ever was a process that should be controlled by a computer program on internet poker it's the seating at the start of a game. Yet just like a chess tournament it takes the organizers forever to figure out what to do, and then even with thousands of players all over the planet I get seated at tables with only folks from the same relative geographic location on the planet.

Granted this was 4 am EST, but it wasn't until my fourth table where I started to see more of the Earth represented and anything resembling serious play with the betting.

And here's a bump for an old topic. The prize is a qualifier for another massive multiplayer table. In the upper right hand corner they give you a friendly reminder that you will need to manually register for that. As opposed to what? Performing a virgin sacrifice? Altering your TV remote? Calling 911?

FAIL.