The donk-the-last-of-it off is a viable theory as well. It actually fits with what I saw on Full Tilt last night. Each table (I play six handed) had one or two fish buying in short stacked and just pushing with anything. They would throw away money fast, disappear. 20% of the time they were replaced by another just like it; the rest of the time, it was a shark who'd got on the wait list because they saw the fish whose seat they just took.
There was money to be made, but I was chasing table-to-table like mad trying to get in a spot to catch the money from the one or two bad players left at each table. I felt like I was running a marathon! Inevitably, the money would dry and I would find myself at a table that just folded around to the small blind time-after-time. Such games are beatable by playing loose preflop and trapping after the flop, but it's a lot more work and concentration.
Everything is in such a state of flux. We won't know the real upshot until things settle. I could have witnessed an anomaly last night, or you could be witnessing one in your day sessions. We just don't know until the craziness settles.
And, as one of my coworkers said, it's hard to have sympathy for us. We're effectively complaining that it's tough to get easy money like we used to playing this video game called “online poker”. Truth is, it was a nice run, and it may end, but it was going to end anyway one way or the other.
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The donk-the-last-of-it off is a viable theory as well. It actually fits with what I saw on Full Tilt last night. Each table (I play six handed) had one or two fish buying in short stacked and just pushing with anything. They would throw away money fast, disappear. 20% of the time they were replaced by another just like it; the rest of the time, it was a shark who'd got on the wait list because they saw the fish whose seat they just took.
There was money to be made, but I was chasing table-to-table like mad trying to get in a spot to catch the money from the one or two bad players left at each table. I felt like I was running a marathon! Inevitably, the money would dry and I would find myself at a table that just folded around to the small blind time-after-time. Such games are beatable by playing loose preflop and trapping after the flop, but it's a lot more work and concentration.
Everything is in such a state of flux. We won't know the real upshot until things settle. I could have witnessed an anomaly last night, or you could be witnessing one in your day sessions. We just don't know until the craziness settles.
And, as one of my coworkers said, it's hard to have sympathy for us. We're effectively complaining that it's tough to get easy money like we used to playing this video game called “online poker”. Truth is, it was a nice run, and it may end, but it was going to end anyway one way or the other.