Sit and Go Land Mines

This was actually a little bit of a surprise. After an intense marathon weekend of poker, booze, tormenting the neighbor's cat and getting cheated at Microsoft Hearts I managed to get myself back to a healthy 42k balance on PokerStars.

I can't play Single Draw all the time.Watching someone play for high hand on the first hand on so many tables gets to be a bit of a yawnfest. A 10k Single Draw table beckoned tonight, but I yawned it off and purposefully chose a 2k buy in since I was hoping to just play some cards and not have to worry about the bullshit.

Now, why this is so surprising is that as my crack team of rule break identifiers (me and the dog) have identified that the time bank is NOT working right on PokerStars. Real people in the real world get a friendly warning that they have 15 seconds to act. Then if you use that up you get 60 extra seconds, which you can spread out over several hands until it's used up. The bonehead in the upper left did not get a time bank. This has become a pattern that is popping up more frequently than someone playing for high on the first hand of lowball. And it just reeks of pre-programmed cards.

So, I said to myself, "Self, you've got a good hand with AK. Let's fold it because you know you're going to lose. Time to fold 20 hands in a row, get short stacked and maybe make a comeback and finish nin the money."

Then I remembered. If I'm at table that doesn't follow the rules I'm probably destined to get a decent screen shot. And it's only 2k, and me and my crack team of B grade 1980's TV series experts (me and the dog) do have all 20 episodes of She Wolf of London to get through. Kate Hodge is probably the hottest non-Asian babe on the planet.

OK- you had a good hand, too. Probably not worth raising 1/3rd of your chips. However this is something that can (and will) be duplicated.Every time I have a decent starter hand when no time bank is offered I will call.