Since I can't record games and conveniently hand histories are not available for play money games you'll just have to take this on faith for now. I'd like to think that my credibility is a tick or to notches higher on the scale than Internet poker. And in my approach of 800 posts and including a lot of bad Internet poker math readers should trust me on my word.
I picked out a meaningless 7 stud hi-lo sitter. Knowing full well from my early days that in Hold'em I should get a pair roughly once every 13 hands combined with my standards for 7 stud hi-lo I found this table to be one of the most statiscally abnormal black holes I've ever encountered.
My standards are to not consider playing without either a pair, 3 cards connected to a straight, 3 cards to a flush or 3 cards lower than an 8. As they standards were not met too much I got to fold a lot of hands and the lack of pairs came up in my radar screen. Me and my crack team of mathematicians (me, the dog and the ghost of Pythagoras) find that in an initial deal of three cards you should pair up 15% of the time or roughly once every 6.5 hands.
As the game (if you can call it that) dragged on for over an hour I realized I was unpaired every single freaking hand. (Until late when I was short stacked and screwed and a blessed
Let's conservatively estimate that my 1 hour of play saw 65 hands. It was more. I should have received 10 pairs by this time and I had zero. No 3 cards to a straight, 1 three cards the same suit (which was a loser) and 2 hands with three cards less than an eight, of which I actually won 1 and was bad beated on the other.
What we have here is an enormously rigged maelstrom of crapitude that sends the message, "Screw you Xenu, you lose." And all this attention I get on free money games.
The gauntlet is still thrown down. If you're a poker pro and can take time off for two tables a week on free money games you will surely experince the same kind of bullshit that will make you rethink putting your wallet into the table.
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