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Poker humour
Nov. 4th, 2005 06:19 pmOn the Gutshot forum at the moment there is a spate of the occasionally recurring "online poker is rigged" nonsense. This is usually exemplified by illogical arguments, changing of parameters every time you shoot down a previous argument and, generally, displays of stupidity that make you realize that you don't need to worry about finding fish at poker tables for some time yet.
Anyway, my own version of the "cash-out curse" has tended to be that I nearly always lose when I get to my bonus, be it on Stars or Party or Empire. Now, there are reasons for this. If you are "stuck", then you are more likely to hang around, which makes it more likely that you will be losing when you reach the bonus level. And, of course, it isn't necessarily true. The last time I hit my Stars bonus, I chopped it off for $600 in about an hour and a half. I was on fire.
But not this time. I had crawled to a profit of about $150 in a week (on Stars), and needed a mere 30 points to get my bonus. During that short accumulation I got slaughtered left, right and centre. In the required 52 hands, I got four pairs (Aces, nines, sevens and Queens) and lost with the lot. The Queens came last, just as I was about to reach the required 750 points. Fans of conspiracy theories, enjoy.
( click here for the hand )
Anyway, my own version of the "cash-out curse" has tended to be that I nearly always lose when I get to my bonus, be it on Stars or Party or Empire. Now, there are reasons for this. If you are "stuck", then you are more likely to hang around, which makes it more likely that you will be losing when you reach the bonus level. And, of course, it isn't necessarily true. The last time I hit my Stars bonus, I chopped it off for $600 in about an hour and a half. I was on fire.
But not this time. I had crawled to a profit of about $150 in a week (on Stars), and needed a mere 30 points to get my bonus. During that short accumulation I got slaughtered left, right and centre. In the required 52 hands, I got four pairs (Aces, nines, sevens and Queens) and lost with the lot. The Queens came last, just as I was about to reach the required 750 points. Fans of conspiracy theories, enjoy.
( click here for the hand )
