Last night was a very strange evening. I had originally transferred $100 into my Empire account a few months ago when I opened the account and, for the most part, had forgotten about it. I was a little bored so I decided to play over there and see if I couldn’t start building up that bankroll a little. I ended up playing about 100 hands and took a brutal beating at a $1/$2 table. This wasn’t pretty at all. I was playing well but it was bad beat after bad beat. I lost one hand aces full of fives when the flop came A5x and I held AA. Turn was a 5 and the river came a 5 giving my caller quads. I had gone from an initial $100 to around $35 and then . . . it happened!

My computer froze and I had to reboot.

I thought about just calling it a night but something called to me telling me to just play a few more hands. I listened to the voices in my head and the poker gods unleashed a string of hands like I had never seen before. I was actually starting to get worried that people wouldn’t respect my raises later because I had received four raising hands in a row. Best of all, they were all holding up and they got lots of action all the way to the river. If I had a pair, I flopped a set and it held up. If I had pocket broadway cards, it was a sea of faces on the flop. In the next 100 – 150 hands, I went from $35 up to over $150. What was also strange is that the cards came in waves. I would get 4 or 5 hands in a row and then 15 or 20 hands of junk. Another 4 or 5 hands in a row and then 15 or 20 hands of junk.

What a wild night!

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1 hdouble June 18, 2004 at 12:13 pm: This is what’s known as the “anti cashout curse” phenomenon. Upon reboot, you scrambled party’s RNG, putting yourself in the “positive zone” for receiving good cards. I’ll often purposely reboot in the middle of a bad run for exactly this reason.

Don’t mind me, I’m just practicing for RGP.
2 Bill RIni June 20, 2004 at 1:42 pm: Ahhh, interesting theory :-)

When I first started playing I used to think other players could steal my brain waves through the computer and know what cards I had. I would fashion myself a hat made of aluminum foil in order to keep my brain waves from escaping. I now realize how sill that was. Aluminum can’t stop brain waves. You have to use tin foil.