Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Internet Poker ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Taunt



I'm familiar with the lingo. And human nature. And the rigging.

You see, when you get upset at someone taking way too much time, and this happens on every single table since nobody registered on PokerStars understands the meaning of the word "turbo," you post the friendly message in chat - "zzzzzzzzz." The abbreviation is meant to mean, "Hey jackwipe dumbfuck, make a move."

The value of this is worthless when the target of your ire is disconnected. Yep, you just complained about someone who isn't logged in not playing. For all you knew he tripped on a coffee table after a fifth of Jack Daniels and can't play. It's not like your "zzzzzzz" can magically make him come back and play faster.

And let's not forget that oceangirl is a bronze star which implies playing for real money. "It" was from the US.

I can duplicate that forever. US positions with stars wasting their time on meaningless low level free money games.

Game over PokerStars.

Friday, April 18, 2014

What is PokerStars Hiding??



And why?

As an accomplished chess player I found myself interested in watching Carlsen kick Anand's ass. Brilliant endgame technique. So I don't actually have to play to be entertained. I can watch what the big boys are doing.

A couple of years ago the big boys on PokerStars had an incredible number of chips and played these silly race, rage, turbo guts tables and if you weren't part of the club, i.e. not enough chips, you could at least watch the insanity unfold.

Now in this new age of a sorry excuse for having enough free money chips by breaking out the checkbook to buy free money chips to play at tables with huge buy ins the casual player isn't even allowed to observe.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Stupid Criminals - The Borgata Incident

My all time favorite stupid criminal story is a local one. Two guys rob a bank. The police arrive at the scene a bit later and track them down in no time. How does this happen?

It was snowing the morning of the robbery and the police simply followed the prints in the snow since they made the getaway on foot.

What happened at the Borgata recently is a lot more creatively stupid. Our hero brings in counterfeit chips to a big money multi-day tournament at the Borgata. Fearful that he was "made" in his hotel room he flushes the remain stock of bogus chips down the toilet. Well for those of you that don't play real poker let me explain that chips are made out of this weird substance called plastic. Plastic has done a lot of good for this planet. It increases shelf life of food by keeping nasty little bacteria away, for example. At the same time it has caused a lot of harm to the planet. I'm thinking the Texas sized piece of plastic twirling around in the depths of the Pacific ocean. But for this story all you need to understand is that plastic takes a bit more than a few hours to degrade.

So after or hero's royal flush (God I love that pun) the plumbing gets clogged and water starts leaking into the hotel room below him. Maintenance is called, the bogus chips are found and he's busted.

What a senseless waste. These bogus chips could have been put to so much better use. There not real money. So the cosmic stupidity that goes on in the free money games of PokerStars could have used the economic jolt if they were put in play there.

The free money world economy has had too much beleaguering it recently. Like with the free troops military activity going on with Russia and the Ukraine. Have you no free money shame?