More Flaggots

Is that really the flag of the Ukraine with its tridenty (real word) symbol? Do I trust Pokerstars more than a site that makes a living selling flags? Nope.

Flaggots

That's not the German flag. And what's up with the two Romanian guys where ne has just the flag and another has a symbol in the middle? Hmmmm.

National Pride Con Continued

I really hate being right all the time. It's too much pressure to live with. I guess if I move to Burundi things will be better.

Newest marketing campaign is to change your avatar to your country of origin. Some jack wipe has managed to register from the United Kingdom and chose the Burundi flag as his/her/it avatar. Thanks for the ammunition.

Au to Pilo t

Did you kn ow th at you are no t allow ed to call a mode rator an ymore? No bi g deal since the y were pretty us eless anyw ay. Just saw someone posting about a tablemate as a fuc king luckbox. Not personally offended, but there are some general rules that people should hold to on an Internet site. 4 in the morning for me, gut somewhere out there are ten year olds that still need a little nurturing to learn to avoid nasty porn sites and, well, PokerStars.

I've abused calling the useless moderators often. Bit it still should be an option. Otherwise it just exposes you as an uncaring fraud site running AI 24-7 on autopilot.

The PokerStars National Pride Con

And there you have it. These "flag" avatars are starting to pop up more frequently. Yet for now far less than half a table has them. It's no coincidence that this happens as the Olympics begin. You see, you're supposed to get all national pridey (real word) and want to represent your country. The genius that thought up this marketing campaign forgot a couple of things or was excluded from some key memos.

First off, national pridey people don't want to play some fucked up bizarre variation of poker that nobody but their close circle of friends might get to see they are pridey.

Next - It's not like I ever got a friendly email or a post log in message that asked me if I wanted my avatar to be changed to m country's flag. I have no choice.

And finally and most obviously. Or maybe not. Since AI has no real country of origin it will take a lot of effort to change all the non-avatar players to show their flag. Hell, there's eve a Bronze Star player here that when they registered never put in a country of origin. For you newbies out there, Bronze Star may be the lowest class of starred player, but it still implies, if a real human, talent and time commitment.

If this degenerates to the point where every single table I sit at has a flag avatar I'm going to laugh my ass off. I've already called my ass replacement doctor because this is a serious possibility.

Pokerstars Avatar Madness

I really don't know why they bother and try anymore. Maybe I'm the most fun the bored admins have in their surely dwindling base of real players to fuck with. Some things are subtle. Some things scream out, "What the Fuck??!?" This is one of the latter.

Remember, I've been poking around here for two decades and I've seen a lot of really weird shit beyond the obvious non-random cards. I really would like to change my avatar from an empty table screenshot to something a bit more personal. Like maybe my beloved pit bull. Or a hot Asian chick. Or a photo of that microwaved Dinty Moore beef stew that I enjoyed for dinner. Or Miranda Kerr, despite my displeasure that her divorce ruined the best celebrity couple nickname ever - Kerrbloom.

So why is it that I log in and my avatar is a US flag? I didn't change it. Perhaps someone hacked me and my non-existent constantly cheated free money chip stack was important and PokerStars changed it?

The last times previous to tonight I tried to change my avatar I was always met with a friendly message about how I already changed it once and I couldn't do it. So the hacker theory is blown to hell to just change my avatar. Totally pointless.

It's also not like this is one of those civic pride moments where players avatars are shown as their country during the World Cup. You changed my avatar for the Olympics? And you didn't change all the other US players for the Olympics? I'll tell you why. Because the dwindling base of real players doesn't play against AI that hasn't properly declared a country of origin, yet. Expect to see lots of flags during the duration of the Olympics.

The 50-50 Game on Pokerstars Obituary

The Internet poker community is mourning the passing of the 50-50 game on PokerStars. Affectionately called "Fiddy," the game passed away quietly in the night after a long illness of not being realistic. Fiddy is survived by his wife, Badugi and daughters 8 game and a yet unnamed bastard child that will surely be something else that can hardly be called real poker.


Instead of flowers the family is asking that you make a donation to AINT. The AI National Trust.

The memorial service will be held next weekend. No chat allowed.