Saturday, August 17, 2013

Dabbling in PokerStars 50/50 games

Here's the way the game works. Once the table has half of the people who registered left it's over. You can conceivably finish in the money and lose chips, because the payout is the amount of the buy in without the ridiculous administrative fee tacked on plus $1 for every 100 chips you have.

It's basically pretty stupid. And just the latest bizarre addition to the weird games that get offered that no serious poker player would ever submit themselves to. The payoff is so low that it's amazing how these tables fill up so quickly. Kinda like a 5000 player tourney with a 100k buy in that you have to play for five hours to win $1,000 play money chips.

When I played on Full Tilt one of my favorite and bizarre games was one where you got points for knocking out opponents and lasting longer than others. Several times I placed in the money folding every single hand. There is some similarity here. I've registered for about ten of these and I've placed in the money on every single one. It's a simple matter of outlasting the AI beating each other to death.

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