When you have played as many hands as I have (more than 250,000) and you have even the most basic knowledge of statistics and probability it becomes easy to identify what I call internet poker impossible. I have the luxury of being able to goad whomever is running (or perhaps I should say ruining) the table into doing amazinbly stupid unreal bullshit.
Their arrogance never ceases to amaze me. They'd be a lot better off just leaving me alone. I'm stubborn to a fault, insanely competitve and smart enough to know exactly what the hell is going on.
I'm smart enough to recognize that my normal schedule is well known. I'm way to far away from retiring and nailing hot Asian babes in my Florida condo, so I still must keep some semblance of a normal schedule to function at work. After all, I choose to work to make my free money chips to pay my free money mortgage and free mone dog vet bills as opposed to trying to earn them online. That income is only secondary.
PokerStars also knows I have a predilection for 7-2 lowball, and for the past few weeks their response to my presence was a completely transparent rigging into impossible mode. Congratulations douchebags, you just bombed Pearl Harbor and awoke my fighting spirit. It took me a little longer than I would have liked, but I finally figured out what to do. I sat down with my crack team of pissed off retalitors (me and the dog and my fern plant) and came upon what should have been too obvious a solution. (Me and the dog have slowed down in our old age.)
On 7-2 lowball I was constantly being met with hands not worth calling, much less raising. KKQQA, pat ace high flush, pat straight, 88899, etc... The simple answer, your 5 card draw high hand wins games fill up pretty quickly. Deal with me there.
During weeks of impossible mode I hovered between 2k and 4k, playing lots of low level tables not worthy of my talent level, taking every tiny little bone I was fed. On Friday night I had less than 4k chips. I now have 60k, and on the weekend abused the high hand 5 draw game like crazy. I didn't count exactly how many sit and go's I played, it was probably between 15 and 20. 5 draw is a seven player game that only pays off two spots. My results - one table out of the money, one second, every other one 1st.
I'm not that good. Nobody is that good. It was a simple matter of realizing that my cards were locked on "high." So, I made some hay while the sun was shining. I managed to log into a 25k buy in game (after my online not placing in the money finish) and not surprisingly the quality of play was a joke.
Who do you "people" think you are kidding?
The dog is not laughing. Neither is Jarah.
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