Remember when you were 14 years old and your friend told you about how he had discovered a cheat-code for the latest video game to make your character invincible... and then you went home excited, typed in the 56 digit code, pressed the A and B buttons simultaneously, did a twiddly thing with your thumbs on the controller and nothing happened. So you rang your friend and asked him what the story was - that you had done spent the past hour doing everything he said - but to no avail. And then you hear it. He cackles down the phone and you realise the whole thing was a hoax and there is no cheat code and you are on your own to battle the zombies without the power of invincibility.
Well fuck you Super Turbos! Fuck you in the eye-socket! I played about a hundred of you fickle bastards tonight and lost about $750. The honeymoon period is well and truly over. Don't get me wrong. I haven't given up on my experiment as of yet (and I am earning a pile of Rakeback) but I have come to discover that there are others like me. That's right. I'm the not the only half-witted poker player out there to see the potential dead-money in them. In fact, on doing my research on some of my regular opponents across the evening, it would appear that there were at least 8 of us (often as many as 5 on the same table) all stealing equity away from each other. So, I did what any self-respecting player would do in my position. I quit... I quit playing them that is and instead spent the next hour categorising the players at them based on their fishiness/sharkiness.
Tomorrow I will avoid the sharkier ones, registering only for the games that have 2 or less of these profit-leeches. Time will tell if this tactic makes a difference.
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