Some things never change

Yesterday I played a rare for me 2 table Hold'em tournament on PokerStars. Very strange. As expected it lasted more than an hour and a half. What was not expected is that the poker Gods graciously granted me first place.

Ohmigod. I said Poker Gods. That's funny. No, I'm not boasting about skill. I'm boasting about the hilariously, stastically unreasonable, ridiculous cards I was getting and catching. And it wasn't until the very end when the first sit out happened. This is far from normal for a PokerStars game.

Granted these hole cards were spread out over more than an hour and a half. But, any young buck in Vegas would be drooling over two pokcet aces, three pocket kings, two pocket queens, one pocket jacks, two pocket tens, and throw in another couple low pairs. As big blind with kT and no raising I caught a fullhouse on the flop. So worried about the bad beat I was sure would be coming up I folded a lot of killers that I would have caught on the river.

As every bit as unreasonably good my cards were last night, they were amazingly crappy tonight. Two lowball 5 draw games. Constantly getting starter hands like QQJT8 and such.

The second game tonight was the infamous 7-2 triple draw lowball. I gave it a shot to see if they've cleaned up the "vlueless moron playing for high" problem since they cleaned up the "can't sit first at the table" problem.

Some things never change. Juanwipe (the hispanic version of jackwipe for my purposes) was verrrryyyy interested in the first hand with his two pair. Several hands later, still not recognizing his lack of success with the high hand, nor recognizing the table stats in the upper corner and having incompetently registered into a low game he's excited about his A2 full house.

I'm willing to give some concession since this was only a 2k buy-in. Yet, when the freebie is 1k and you've built yourself up to 2k to buy-in to this table one would have to assume you have a couple of brain cells.

Or else your so high on crack and Ben and Jerry's that you wouldn't be able to operate your mouse. Also amusing is the fact that despite the first significant chat in ages none of my erstwhile opponents noticed or commented on this behavior. Me and my crack team of behaviorilists (me and the dog) think that maybe this table might have been rigged.