Human Nature and the Low Buy In Tourney

I latched on to this table when it was already three and a half hours into it. With intent. Because I've seen it before.

Real human nature does not include going to sleep at eight at night and waking up at 2 am. Real human nature doesn't have someone with over two million free money chips not playing, just watching. And watching the poker equivalent of Plan Nine From Outer Space.

When I had 20k chips ages ago this kind of tourney was an attractive option. Drink a few beers, kill a couple of hours. Go to bed and get ready for work in the morning. But as the foremost critic of Internet poker on the planet, here I am actively working on pointing out what's wrong with this.

Poker, not on the Internet, is a competition. Luck plays a part, but the idea is to win and grow stronger. You buy a new video game and it strikes your fancy, so you invest some time into it and you get better.

PokerStars and every other site I've blown out of the water gives you 2k chips that you can lose and get reloaded back to. It's an industry standard. So let's pretend I have 2000 chips and I accidentally decide to buy in to an 8 game tourney.

Yes, I understand about multi-tasking and playing more than one table at once. And dedicating to play a single table while you have Shark Week on TV. But to do that for an estimated three hours just to place in the money with a net gain of 100 chips is ludicrous. And to drag out your night to gain 17,000 for first place requires another two hours. This is not human nature. We live in an age of instant gratification. Yet 447 people met up at a ridiculous tourney with a prize not worth fighting for and played for six hours.

And from the chat that was posted (shouldn't have done that with me around) some of them are into the game. Really? Five hours into a low payoff game and you're taunting?

Real human nature does not have a highly skilled poker player observing the bullshit. And PokerStars counts on it so every hand dealt gets logged as one of the many in their quest for a bogus 100 billion hands dealt.