Being that I reside in New Jersey I play here but also play at Borgata Casino’s online game, usually Hold’em and usually reasonably small stakes. I am ahead and have cashed my deposit so it has been with house money, so am happy. Up until Sunday evening.
To make a long story short, my AJ flopped AAT, so I raised 6X, a 6 turned and I bet 8X and rivered another 6 and I pushed.
Two things happened. I lost! Yikes. And when I looked at my opponents hand he had my hand, AAA66. I flipped out. I went ballistic. I am too old to kick my computer but I did curse at the dog. I vowed that I was finished playing for money and maybe even finished with all poker.
I didn’t sleep well. Yesterday I told two people in the know that the program had actually swapped hands and gave the opponent my hand. One person is a tech here at RP. Another is a player. They both suggested I call the Borgata and complain as they do not need any bad publicity.
I just called Borgata and since I didn’t know my hand number (remember at the time I went instantly berserk) it took some time to get their explanation. After some time I started to feel the crazies come back to me because I swore to the man on the phone that the program switched our hands. He went away for another fifteen minutes. Then he explained:
The hand dealt to me was AJ and the hand dealt to mu opponent was AT. The flop was ATA, meaning my opponent was flopped the nuts. The turn was 6 and the river was 6. And the other regrettable truth was I was betting into the nuts!
I was right in that I had the FH and I was even right reading my opponents hand, in that he too had AAA66!
But he also had AAATT and that I didn’t see when I quickly reviewed the hands. To me it looked like the program switched hands.
Lord, I hate this game called poker. Damn!
Scratch
