Thursday, December 27, 2012

Play by Play On the Next AIOF Table



























5:36pm - Dutifully noted. There's no doubt this is AIOF.

5:43pm - The first pee break of the night. The first "Weeeeeeee!" It's doubtful that it was seriously needed as this wasn't posted in caps lock.

5:44 pm - Our generous host has dropped the ball. There was no reminder to the new player that this is AIOF. I hate it when the host does this and then the table complains about it. You aren't going to get any tips that way! (I'm not making this up! I see mention of tipping the host all the time in chat as a table finishes.)

5:49pm - No longer are we are just weeing. Now we are killing bulls in the bullfight ring and oleeeing as well. This could be some kind of bizarre margarine reference and it was meant to be "oleoooooooo!" In any case, the quality of the victory is not improved by your taunting. You're just going all in every hand. There's almost no thought. If you had any sportsmanship you would just sit there quietly and enjoy your chip increase. Sportsmanship in a bogus all in game? Who am I kidding?

5:51pm - ditto

5:57pm - Lots of times PokerStars uses the excuse of a player being slow because he's playing multiple tables. The reality is that the play is slow because they are playing at the same table as me and playing multiple tables. Orton is zipping through his/her/its four with ease.

6:01pm - Yes, most all luck poker. Said in response to a previous "lucky" in chat.
Definitely when you play it this mindless way.

6:03pm - atakeeeeeeeeee. Granted you are from Spain. Hmmm. And you didn't post a single "oleeeeee."

6:04pm - And this is one I want to dwell on a bit more as it's pretty much an outright rule break.

The nature of the game, at least as dictated by our generous host, is that it's all in or fold and for the entire time I watched compliance was 100%. This was the third time cards were mucked. It's as bad as "Shade" where the player who calls has to show his cards first, and a site that's dedicated to poker for decades certainly should have the bugs ironed out by now. On the AIOF tables it's not as much of a big deal as others. But it happens on others. Simply, everyone that's all in and table cards need to be dealt - the hole cards are shown. And when the result is decided there is no mucking. It's all in before the turn. The only way a muck happens in real poker is if there was an all in before the turn, not all in by other positions and then a subsequent all in. Ridiculous.

6:05pm - Generous host reminds new player it's all in.

6:09pm - Generous host has dictated the newbie's behaviour and without any fanfare leaves the table, and is immediately replaced by someone without 40k. Which is part of the AIOF rules. I guess your little brother wanted to play and you needed to give him a seat and take the AIOF rules off.

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