One of the constant curiosities relative to Internet poker is the abundance of positions not playing seriously. Sometimes it's easy to spot. The "player" that raises pre-flop every single hand. The "player" that doesn't seem to know that it's Razz instead of normal 7 card stud. The "player" goes all in on the first hand on a full table with cards that aren't even worth a call. The standard excuse for that last one is that it was a bluff. And it's a stupid bluff because you're risking the outcome of the entire tournament to steal $30 of blinds.
But this post isn't about that. It's about deep into a game when the pay off is on the line. And as I've been presented in two consecutive tourneys with the play being fairly obvious to make me lose instead of playing to win I've arrived at this point of my very real and non-artificial intelligence point of my life.
One table game. 6 players. Top two spots get paid off. 3 spots left. And Jays folds virtually every hand. Which basically means that it's a two player game. Except that the other guy than me is an obvious vacuum. Folded 1 hand pre-flop during the 100+ hands I played. Raised a lot. Using my 160+ IQ I in turn folded almost every hand since I had more chips. This paid off.
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Even stranger was last night's two table game where I got into a dogfight with 5 positions left fighting for 4 payoff positions. As it had been running and I had real life stuff to do, (taking care of the dog and eating) I was starting to lose interest, so when that huge bad beat hit me I just turned off the PC with the smallest stack of the 5. Somehow, while not playing I managed to take third as proven by my chip count when I logged in tonight.
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Again - this explains the reason for all the sitting out on PokerStars. Since the cards are not random you can do better by not playing.
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