Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Road to PokerStars Heaven is Paved with Bad Intentions





What the following milestone hands will show are varying degrees of what we here at the Big Laydown like to call a term that has never been used before.

Bullshit.

These milestone hands have some common features. It's almost always a Hold'em hand. Granted this is the most popular. But we are talking about a game of odds. It's almost always a low blinds game. Granted these are more likely. There's always a flurry of negative observer chat that uses their favorite word for an incompetent player - donks, or a similar insult.

Another common feature of these milestone hands is that you are rewarded based on your VPPs. Kinda haven't seen a new player to the table only score the $20 minimum by accidentally showing up at the wrong time. Granted, it could happen.

But the one immutable, mathematical concept that fucks PokerStars is that these tables always magically fall onto a real money table. It's not like they ever tried to explain away that the milestone hand was adjusted because it fell on a free money table.

And the Sit Out wait list thing from Operation Wait List? Real people my ass. Declare a prize you don't have to pay off. Because AI doesn't have checking accounts.

You call it a promotion. I tend to think promotion means spend some dollars to gain future customers. Marketing ploy is in the middle. You market milestone tips like play more tables, play longer, and loosen up so if you manage to get on the magic table that scores you a big pot we've made out in the long run. I prefer the word "scam." You play recklessly and lose to AI that doesn't have to be paid out.

And the math is most definitely on my side.

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