Yet Another 3

Silly me. I thought this would finally be the time that my super human power of patience would pay off and I might get to see. what is so cool about this particular table that would make someone want to wait more than two hours to play on it.

There's a lot of stuff I could have done in that two hours. That's a movie. Or making dinner, cleaning the entire house, taking a nap, read two novels, take another nap and eat dinner. (On Hotel for Dogs style AIST - Artificial Intelligence Standard Time.)

This time my screen shots show that this message about a player on the wait list flashes in and out. Whether it's a natural function of any huge wait list table, or it's just me because I know human nature wouldn't put up with waiting for a game to start, it's still bullshit.

Yet Another 2

I've joined this table at 2:05pm EST. There is a cast of characters playing very slowly. Cautious to a fault. I'm last on the wait list. 15 minutes later there is one position removed from the wait list. Great. At this pace I'll play my first hand in about a day. And there are two players about at a million chips. Common sense and logic and math says that you would be insane to want to play at this table. It's going to take to long to sit. And obviously these guys are really, really good. Because to start at 40k, and get to a million at this pace is like a second job.

Oh coool!. At 2:25 fresh meat!. I've moved up a notch on the wait list! Oh, but there's that ill advised less than 40k buy in. You have some serious balls. Or you're just AI.

Oh my. Ferkel has gone in and lost. Buying in at less than 40k he/she/it is surely done for the day. But wait! Ferkel rebuys! Hoozah! There's no advantage to sitting at less than 40k. Just in case you flop a royal flush you're going to want those maximum chippies available. If you're cautious, buy in at the max and don't bet or call any more than you are comfortable with.

Frak! Ferkel Fracking Frecklost fracking Fragain! And another rebuy.

Missed tghe really damaging screenshot of suds sitting back in without having to post big blind. But it happened.

Yet Another Huge Wait List - And More Mistakes added

This screen shot in and off itself doesn't prove anything. But since it's obvious that PokerStars reads this blog I didn't want them to think I didn't notice.

Roxy bought in to a 40k max buy in table with 159k. Me and my crack team of not being cheated experts (me and everyone that stopped playing for real money after reading this blog) have come to the conclusion that this is pretty much not possible. So pay attention out there. The table you are sitting at may already have mathematically impossible positions out there. And they can insert one at anytime.

Gotta love, or hate, a site that can't follow its own rules.

Another Huge Wait List

Curiously I just heard this apt quote today. One time is an incident. Two times is a coincidence. Three times is a trend. And here the third time is the charm. So prepare for my narration on this ridiculous wait list, which happens every day.

For the past three nights the wait list, when I join, doesn't stand a chance to make it to the table in a reasonable amount of time. Not in this day and age of instant gratification. Apparently the cool thing to do is join a wait list or twenty and turn off your computer and go to bed. Because when the big dogs finally leave the table there is a flurry of activity including reserved spots being instantly ignore. Or even sitting at the table then leaving before a single hand is dealt. Which is really stupid since that means you are connected to the server, waited an hour to play at this table and you changed your mind. Must have been a rage table to play on. Those do require a lot of thought.

6:55pm Notice the position in the lower left. I'll get back to him. Typo. The l and n keys aren't close.
7:01pm One of the big dogs wants to move the game to a new table. Having a million chips isn't enough. And the wait list of AI feeders has insulted his intelligence.
7:04pm He's only got 117k because he banked, you moron! I'm familiar with the concept of banking. You gain a huge amount of chips, you leave and rejoin at the minimum. Now if you're talking about this table it absolutely doesn't work because you still have to wait for the huge AI wait list to get burned off before you can sit again. There is a bit of evidence that they were talking about this table. And a bit of evidence that these positions are playing multiple tables.
7:08pm Bad grammar in caps lock. But one of your table mates said something curious. I saw. I saw your bluff. No you didn't. A bluff implies that you bet and weren't called. Which means that your cards weren't shown. Now there is an option on PS to show your cards on PF (PokerFrauds.) But you didn't do it at this table. And now that I think about it I've only ever seen players show their cards at a game I'm playing at. Never on one I'm observing. Hmmmm.
7:16pm Kinda makes me think they're talking about this table. And we have a threat to call Gabe, who is a moderator that ruined their fun previously. Weird.
7:717pm This was the third correction of a typo. Hey everybody! Real person here! I made a mistake and corrected it. Once is an incident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a trend.
7:21pm hummin posting in CAPS LOCK after not previously doing that. Shift change? Admin lost in knowing the history of the table?
7:22pm It's getting close to half an hour with barely a dent in the wait list.
7:36pm Only one of two players from the original table left. Stagnant chip growth. Hardly ever calls. From the United States and posts, "met boll." WTF?

7:39pm

And there we have it again. The trendsetter. Three nights in a row WHERE A POSITION FROM THE WAIT LIST tells everyone to sit out via screen picture. If the table was going to be shut down completely it would be so much easier to have a moderator message show up that says, "This table will be closed in 15 minute." This is supposedly a real person that took the time to join the wait list and wants the remaining (AI) to sit out.

The wait list is protection for those million $ chip stack since observer chat is locked down. Nobody is ever going to get to play against them and call them out on the bullshit.

This is one of those things that the math is definitely on my side.

The Huge Wait List

Minor speed bump last night as I felt the need to address the PokerStars targeting of me personally. Why am I not surprised they made the same mistake again tonight?

One of my favorite TV shows is The Mentalist. Someone insanely smart has gone through tragedy and is butting heads with someone else insanely smart. I love a challenge. And 17 years of bogus Internet poker trying to look not like bogus Internet poker is a challenge. In volleyball terms, as long as you keep setting me I can't help but spike it.

The biggest problem with a huge wait list is supporting the mentality of those waiting. I sat as the 32nd and about an hour away the wait list was still half full. Extrapolate to two hours before I would even get to play a hand. In this day and age of two year old instant gratification and less than two year old playing skill it's just not realistic.

So let's get into so more specifics revealed in the chat.

BEMFISCALB waited hours to play at this table and got his ass kicked. And now he wants to continue to play and get his ass kicked some more. But he don't got no chippies, so it's time to whine for more.

Caps lock post. Gotta love that. Sure sign of intelligence and skill.

Extended period of no chat. Sure sign of reading poker manuals on how to play before getting serious.

Radio silence broken. With the ever meaningful bboooooaaaahhhhhhh.

Oh. Naughty words. Not spoken in English, but they are **** ed out. I don't owe PokerStars anything, but I give them this warning. Tomorrow or Friday I will investigate if foreign naughty words are part of the banned chat. Supposedly the c hat is limited to English but this rule is constantly broken. The only way to get it to stop is to whine to the useless and powerless moderators.

Some jackwipe sits at the table with an ill advised 16k instead of the max and proceeds to use the same "flash my avatar to sit out" message from yesterday.

You've got me observing and not playing for a long time until you stop this AI/admin nonsense.

By my count, about now the score is Xenu 10,328 PokerStars 3.

The math is on my side. The lack of humanity is on my side.

And the Coup De Grace

Let's start off with the second screenshot. I've made myself a huge nuisance for something like 17 years now. They now me. They know the math and rule breaks and chat issues are in me favor as far as evidence goes. Notice that Jump is capitalized. Long time readers know that I used to be amazed that a parody of my screen name was seen on many wait lists on Ultimate's blackjack tables. Caught the bastards in beta testing and they hated how a real human could beat their program. And prove it wasn't real people. Jump is a parody of my real nickname.

To finish off my busy night I select playing on a huge wait list more than happy to post about how some jackwipe waited four hours before the first hand was dealt to them. And this could explain the "clear" post by Hotel earlier. And maybe the weird string of characters posted in the chat.

The wait list deconstructed in less than 15 minutes. Suddenly everyone that thought this was the coolest table on the planet decided to leave. Not just that. They were instructed to leave.

Anyone that can do something I can't do on a public table is either an admin or cheater and probably both. And if you're too scared of me to play against your obvious AI it doesn't scare me for you to screw up my screen shots or post my nickname, it only serves to prove my point.

You flashed that Sitting Out message on your avatar way too many times for me to not pick up on it.

The ordinary cheated by Internet Poker rant doesn't get to see this. It's about getting screwed on the river. My focus is still on the laughable attempts on trying to make it look like real people when they obviously aren't there. Ball's in your court.

All In or Fold and Who Controls the Game

Before this table I randomly picked a nine seated one on the wait list Omaha Hi-Lo game. And I was treated like I'm the bad guy. What is affectionately called in the two year old cheater lingo as a crasher. I interrupted your fun and didn't leave, so I'm going to take my ball and go home and "See if you can play a game now!" is implied. Well, faco didn't have player search locked down, so I was able to follow him to the new table.

I don't understand why he's so worried about shutting down the table with my offensive presence when he's playing four at the same time.

And here we go again. It takes a while for the table to fill.

If PokerStars is in charge of when a game starts then "A new game will start in 10 seconds" should only appear one time. 10 seconds before the start of the game. But, that last reserved spot hasn't actually seated at the table, so the second message that the game will start in ten seconds appears. Gotta love it either way. Public tables are really private tables where control is turned over to a player. Or they can't just even follow their own rules.