ITH Poker Forum

[maf66]

[list This was announced by Stars rep on 2+2 pokercast. It seems mainly as a deterrent against collusion.

[Zenjo]

This is definately a good idea, as there were no end of problems with both bots and team play in these games.

[CroMagnon]

They should just make it team play. Sign up as either team A or B. Build the chat client into the pokertable and let team A chat unseen by B and visa versa. Level playing field.

Cro

[the_hawk]

They should just make it team play. Sign up as either team A or B. Build the chat client into the pokertable and let team A chat unseen by B and visa versa. Level playing field.

Except where Team A is full of USA-bink-a-donks and Team B full of suckout-attractor-Euros?

[chrisjp]

Missed this announcement but I'm thinking like, "What took you so long?" Better late than never. I was a nice winner in these initially and then the next year the worm turned. So I stopped. Then Stars sent me a refund saying I had been screwed. There's only one practical way to stop the colluding....eliminate the game. Fun game too when it's on the up and up, and instructive.

Up nicely for life in them so RIP.

Chris

[CroMagnon]

They should just make it team play. Sign up as either team A or B. Build the chat client into the pokertable and let team A chat unseen by B and visa versa. Level playing field.

Except where Team A is full of USA-bink-a-donks and Team B full of suckout-attractor-Euros?

Still bitter about the Ryder cup?

Cro

[the_hawk]

Still bitter about the Ryder cup?

Just making an observation...

[nsidestrate]

They should just make it team play. Sign up as either team A or B. Build the chat client into the pokertable and let team A chat unseen by B and visa versa. Level playing field.

Except where Team A is full of USA-bink-a-donks and Team B full of suckout-attractor-Euros?

Hahaha. EZ game.

[Doc T River]

Pardon my ignorance of poker slang, but what were DoNs?

[nsidestrate]

Double or Nothing. SNGs where half the field was paid.

[chrisjp]

Double or Nothing. SNGs where half the field was paid.

And everyone paid the same. So if it were $10+1, and it was a ten player single table, then 5 players all got $20 when there were 5 left. Tournament ended when sixth player eliminated, and it didn't matter what kind of stack you had at that point.

A recipe for collusion. Don't take out your friend. "Lose" chips to him if you have plenty and he is low.

Chris

[niin]

Have they always had their Fifty50 tournaments? Sort of like DoN, except when half the players are gone, the tournament ends and the layers get their buy-in back, plus some percentage of the remaining prize pool based on chip stacks.

[Raisindye]

Have they always had their Fifty50 tournaments? Sort of like DoN, except when half the players are gone, the tournament ends and the layers get their buy-in back, plus some percentage of the remaining prize pool based on chip stacks.

Nope, this came along after the DoNs ended up on the chopping block iirc