This popped into my mind because I played Civilization 2 for an hour and 15 minutes tonight. Civ 2 predates playing internet poker.
Civ 2 has a "cheat mode", the most useful feature being revealing the map and checking out the enemy positions. If you're stupid enough to save the game in cheat mode your score is crippled. The trick is to reveal the mapm reload the game not in cheat mode.
In addition to wanting to teach real humans a lesson by winning at all costs (despite an extreme lack of skill and non-random cards) the admins have created this fun side game called the race table.
After being obviously cheated on my fourth consecutive game I decided to bump this, because I can duplicate this every single night. There are way too many positions here with hundreds of thousand of chips for a 40k max buy in table. This is because the race table has too many unconcerned losers. It's easy to spot. Go to Omaha Hi Lo, look for the biggest waiting lists (the inevitable losers) and watch the bad math unfold.
And it's not just PokerStars. I encountered race tables on Absolute, too.
Now that Operation Hand History proving the non-random cards is in full swing (down to 5k) I might just have to watch some bogus tables instead of playing.
And believe me, I will.
Watching you embarrass yourself with bad math and rule breaks is a helluva lot more than winning the chips.
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