Does online poker make you say hmmmm?

....then:

I know this proves nothing. I mean he could obviously afford to call no matter what he had. But, he of course got exactly what he needed once again. Which is the norm on-line. Fun to look at any way.

Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Sampson402 (10320 in chips)
Seat 2: Hmmmm (4015 in chips)
Seat 3: PaulasLuck (850 in chips)
Seat 4: tapeworm25 (4420 in chips)
Seat 5: forever_smex (3696 in chips)
Seat 6: el Madstack (4885 in chips)
Seat 9: mejestic12 (2145 in chips) is sitting out
Hmmmm: posts small blind 25
PaulasLuck: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hmmmm [8h 6s]
tapeworm25: calls 50
forever_smex: calls 50
el Madstack: folds
mejestic12: folds
Sampson402: calls 50
Hmmmm: calls 25
PaulasLuck: checks
*** FLOP *** [6h 2h 5d]
Hmmmm: bets 50
PaulasLuck: folds
tapeworm25: calls 50
forever_smex: calls 50
Sampson402: raises 200 to 250
Hmmmm: folds
tapeworm25: calls 200
forever_smex: calls 200
*** TURN *** [6h 2h 5d] [7c]
tapeworm25: bets 4120 and is all-in
forever_smex: folds
Sampson402: calls 4120
*** RIVER *** [6h 2h 5d 7c] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tapeworm25: shows [5h 3h] (three of a kind, Fives)
Sampson402: shows [2c 5c] (a full house, Fives full of Deuces)
Sampson402 collected 9290 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9290 | Rake 0
Board [6h 2h 5d 7c 5s]
Seat 1: Sampson402 (button) showed [2c 5c] and won (9290) with a full house, Fives full of Deuces
Seat 2: Hmmmm (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: PaulasLuck (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: tapeworm25 showed [5h 3h] and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 5: forever_smex folded on the Turn
Seat 6: el Madstack folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: mejestic12 folded before Flop (didn't bet)


Now that we have determined who has "the seat" lets took a look at my last hand in this tourney. Sampson (with his long hair) had been bullying the table. Why not? It auto deals him what he needs every hand. So I finally get a playable hand. Big Slick. The BB is $300 so I raise it 1 bet to 600. All fold except seat 1. At this table "the seat". He of course continues his usual style (as expected) and goes over the top with another raise. I move all in and he calls.

Here's the board.

Taa daaa

It always favors one seat in it's "random" deal. Here we see the chip leader in seat 2 goes all in preflop.


What a surprise.

Another thing you will notice is if you were doing well at a table and suddenly get moved to another table it is almost always setting you up to lose. This was this case for me tonight. Knowing this I played very tight. My first tip that this was the set-up table for me to lose was this.


I didn't play in this hand. But, the winner of this hand (with the QQ) went on to have "the seat".


First hand I played in ended up like this

I'm in seat 8.

Then this


Then this


And so on and so on and bad beat and bad beat until it finally gave all my chips away as we knew it would.

What's with these 3 images on Poker Stars? People can upload any graphic they choose but, at almost every table you will see at least one of these 3 odd images. I don't know what it means. But, it seems very odd to me that so many people would choose these images to use.

And all 3 players were all in before the flop.

Notice how all the stacks go up in a pretty gradual climb and then there is a big jump between 1st and 2nd. This is a constant in on-line poker.