Oh the fun you can have

[Chief911]

Read from rec.gambling.poker

"OK, so 2 months ago I was addicted to playing at pokerstars. I played
there for hours there everyday for a month or so. Really pathetic, I
know, but I didn't know that online poker was rigged at the time, and
I never played poker before and was hoping to learn how to play by
playing the playmoney games and the freeroll tournaments. So, anyway,
after a couple weeks of playing I noticed that there were many players
with the same picture. There were 2 pictures that I remember; one was
of a sunrise and the other a pic of some trees. The strange thing was
the more I played the more people that were showing up at my tables
with these two exact same pictures. It was getting to point that
every table I played at there would be someone with one of those
pictures. So obviously I became very curious as to why so many had
that same picture, so I try asking some of them where they got their
pictures. I told them I had seen many people with that same pic, but
I got no response, or they would just say, "it's just some pic I
found". So I try to get more info, I ask where did you get it, and
they would say, "I don't remember. It's just a picture, don't worry
about it." I thought maybe it was a group of colluders or something.
I made a note to try and avoid any tables where these players were
playing. A month later and some 700k play chips later I realized
stars was rigged and quit playing there.

Over time I had forgotten all about the pictures.

About two months later I was going through some folders on my comp.
Just bored, and exploring for something to do. This comp was still
new and I hadn't gotten the chance to find out what all programs and
stuff came preinstalled. So I click 'My Computer' folder and at the
top I see a folder called 'Shared Documents'. I never looked in that
folder before, so I click it and from there to another folder called
'Shared Pictures'. In that folder is where I find the same two
pictures that I had seen so many times on pokerstars. They were
sample pics that came preinstalled with Dell Picture Studio.

Dozens of people on stars had these same two pictures as their
avatars. Strange, don't you think? Strange that so many people would
have these same pictures on their hardrives and liked them so much
that they chose them to be their avatars. It is not like these
pictures were all that interesting. Actually they were quite boring.

No, I don't think these people found pictures of trees and the sunrise
so interesting that they wanted to show them to everybody on stars. I
think that PS scanned my hardrive for pics to give to their bots.


What do you think? You think I am crazy? Or are pictures of trees
really that interesting?"

I laughed so hard I cried.

Nick