Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Buying Free Money Chips



My favorite oxymoron is "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to apologize." Runners up are more well known. Medium sized jumbo shrimp. The printed page that says, "This space intentionally left blank." This ranks right up there.

In a desperate measure to gain the last extorted dollars from a dwindling fan base of complete addicts you can now plop down your credit card, or your parent's stolen credit card, and buy free money chips. And if you have a lot of cash you can buy a crap load of free money chips.

Needless to say the timeline of this is all fucked up. We here at the Big Laydown (me and the pit bull) recently posted about ten million free money buy in tables and how unlikely (that's generous, IMPOSSIBLE) that there would be enough players to populate the tables. After the fact days later we see a possible explanation. New player joins. New player wants to play for free money. New player is unsatisfied by a 2,000 chip gift. New player pays $200 real money to get a ridiculous amount of chips to buy in at ridiculous high end free money tables.

Seriously think about this. You are going to spend real money to buy into games that at best get you a sense of pride for being the best and get you more free money chips? And do you really think that you might do well enough that magnanimously PokerStars is going to allow a conversion from free money back to real money? Highly unlikely.

No, the only purpose this move serves is the potential cover story that there is a reason that people who haven't played for years have amassed so much free money wealth.

Hey jackwipes....you could waste that money on Scientology. Gets you the same result. Being defrauded.

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