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Try playing multi-tables on FTP. The hands are unbelievably coordinated. Playing 4 tournaments, approximately a third of the time I will see the same starting hand withing a card at at least three of the four tables (E.G. J2, J2, J3, Q2) What are the odds of getting pocket AA (the same exact AAs, too) at the same time from two non-coordinated RNGs? This happens far in excess of the acutal probability of the event.
Additionally, nearly half of the non-coordinated hands will match a flop on a different table. In fact if I'm dealt hole cards which match the flop on another table I'm playing, 9 times out of 10 I toss them in, because you will not improve them on the table you are at.
I've been tracking this for some time, and I've found the volatility to be far in excess of what you expect from even the rankest amateurs.
It's not that you can never win on the site, it's just that the valatility will usually eat you alive before you get there. I've had a couple of decent cashes in the 24/50 tournaments,
Oddly enough, I've found it much easier to beat
the freerolls and freeplay than cash tournaments on FTP. You have the same volatility and the bad players make plenty of suckouts, but careful play allows the odds to do their job and overcome the luck over time. I detect something more than dumb luck to be in play on the cash side and cannot be convinced to put any additional funds at risk there.
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