Mr. Monk Plays Internet Poker

As a character in a popular television show it's only natural to realize that Adrian Monk is artificial intelligence. We here at The Big Lay Down have been suspicious about the success of this series, the billions of dollars of free money chips lining Tony Shaloub's pockets and his influence on the owner's of these sites. Once we stumbled upon the massive capital he has in pork belly ice cream futures there is no doubt in our mind.

Tony is meant to make us laugh, want to watch TV and not log in to Internet Poker and raise like a psycho nut. However, as an attempt at credibility, just like PokerStars current fondness for the collective unconsciousness to use massive amounts of time bank time - they have yet made another subtle mistake.

And don't make these mistakes at my table. I'm Monk on steroids. With a wipe follow up.

Now for those of you that don't know the series Monk is a police detective with a lot of emotional baggae He's scared of everything and obsessed with what he needs to do about the death of his wife, Trudy. But, since he's on the PokerStars executive board he can't help himself from making a few mistakes for other detectives, like me, so he can eat his ice cream and get his jollies at the clueless members of his (other than me) ice cream conglomerate.

In Mr. Monk joins a cult he gets totally brainwashed within 5 days. Natalie, Randy and Stottlewyre kidnap him and throw him in the car, take him to some sparsely furnished home to deprogram. Adrian's psychitriast, a rock of sanity in his messed up life tells Stottlemyre to take off his watch to keep Adrian disoriented. As Leland (Stotty's first name) bursts into the room we see a single furnishing on the elstwise barren walls. A clock. Purposeful joke or continuity error? Doesn't matter. I'm still conscious and saw it.

OK, let me guess this right. I'm a real human with enough skill to have 2k to buy in to this game. And (please laugh while I roll on the floor...I said real human) and I've just gotten involved in what was basically a fixed limit style raise fest and I only called leaving myself with 90 chips. Now, I'm going to try and bluff the pair of aces with an 80 chip raise.

Dude, the 10 chips you leave behind makes no difference. There's no way it's going to make a difference.
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And get this - Monk episodes are always titled Mr. Monk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxzx. Not the first time this was done. The Wild, Wild West tv series...yes, not the piece of crap Will Smith movie, had every episode named "The Night of" xxxxxxxxxxx.

OMFG.

Time Bank, Episode names on a western series.

ITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!