I still stand by something I've said in the past. The strongest weapon in an internet poker investigators arsenal is folding. And PokerStars precious hand histories can bear this out. Using my superhuman power of patience and not wanting to be too predictable I logged into a multi-player HORSE game. 475 players. You have to finish in the top 72 to place in the money. I finished in the money.
And I won, I kid you not - one hand. It was a decent pot that took me up from extremely short stacked to just above average short stacked. But then with a ton of more super human patient folding the vacuums elimanted the sitters with virtually no chips, one by one.
The reason that so many "people" sit at a game and aren't really interested in it - this goes back to my Dominion days. This would have been a cool internet game except that there are way too many positions going through the reg process and not actively playing. Dominion disguised this by calling them farms - ostensibly created by real people in an attempt to cheat. The reality is that it's just a big, crappy database with a ton of AI to pretend that there are real people playing, try and sell you on the idea of buying a premium account with lovely extras and make some money on the "free" game. As with internet poker, I did not buy in to the bullshit. Another problem with Dominion is that it only had Swedish hotties instead of Asian hotties.
Let me reiterate. 475 player multi-player game. I finish in the money winning one hand in hundreds dealt. This is not real poker. This is a statiscally unreal nightmare presented as real people interfacing to play cards. Needless to say the only chat that was posted after hours of play was after I got killed. (Didn't care any more and had to get the dogger his nightly bones.)
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