I was woken up from a snooze yesterday afternoon by a call from Betfair. They asked me a series of questions about my betting and poker and then made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
They opened up the survey by asking me why I hadn't been using their site for a while. I told the girl at the other end that it was because I was betting at another place where I could do combination bets.
She asked if I intended to return and I told her 'one day'.
Then our conversation turned to poker. She asked me what my favourite kind of games were and I told her it was tournaments and she wondered why I didn't like playing in their freerolls.
'Because there are too many nutters on there,' was my response.
I explained that there were far too many players going all-in on every hand. Her response was in the positive asking if they were constantly doing that couldn't I have capitalised on their poor play by beating them when I went up against them. She had a good point but my response was better.
'Not with your cards'.
She then informed me that the company was the main sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe and that they were running satellites to the event in London. She asked if I was interested.
Thinking I was going to be offered a place for participating in the survey I said I was. Then she told me one of the routes I could take was to try and qualify for the super satellite by taking part in their daily freerolls at 8pm.
'I am playing in tonight's one. Maybe we will see each other at the tables.' She suggested. I thought I had nothing to lose so agreed that I would also play in the evening's game.
We exchanged usernames and ended the call.
Three hours later our game started with over a thousand players. I ended up finishing in the mid 400's and she finished two places above me!
One of her selling points to me for entering the tourney was that it wasn't going to be full. And it wasn't.
But they were still a thousand nutters going all-in all the time. That's not poker.
Is it?
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