Wednesday, September 5, 2012

But So Many Looking at This Really Cool Table















As I've said in the restart of this franchise, the previous writers have been fired and you aren't going to see the whining about bad beats that existed 10-15 years ago. There's something more insidious going on, which actually explains a lot of the bad beats. It's what I call "accidental cheating." But this post is not about that. This is again about the pervasive number of huge waiting lists on the free money Hold'Em tables.

My focus is the guy on the bottom of this list. GotYoChips08 (because 01-07 were already taken.) He's one of those guys that simply must play at this table. This is THE one. Like realizing you've met your soul mate at the roller skating rink. This is the table that will define his otherwise worthless life, just like with the rest of the wait list.

6:12 pm - join huge wait list.
6:24 pm - quick check to see if it's one of those playing five hundred tables at a time guys. Weird bug - he was at a second table, but the next find player request only shows interest in this.

Every ten minutes after this he crawls up the wait wait list. Surely the excitement must be building to near orgasmic frenzy. But after 50 minutes of waiting he's still more than 20 spots away from a seat at the magic table.

And after getting cheated at 7-stud hi lo for 15 minutes I come back and the magic Geldoria table is gone leaving a lot of pissed off AI in its wake.

Real human nature does not indicate joining a wait list that you can't reasonably expect to join the table shortly. Real human nature does not indicate there's someone out there that looks for things like this. But it's what I do. I've been doing this for about a third of my life. Because I can duplicate the inconsistencies every single day.

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