Incompetent play or collusion?

[joeadd]

I was playin a $20 SNG at Party with 4 people left and 200-400 blinds. I don't have the history so ill do my best to summarize.

BB (t450)
SB (t3300)
Hero (t1450)
UTG (t3300)

Preflop: Hero k10 both diamonds

UTG Raises all in. I fold and so does SB, the BB Calls the 50 and is all in.

Flop was: A J 7
4th: 10
River: 2

Anyways BB had k7 and UTG had 43 offsuit. Needless to say the BB won.

I ended up getting 4th which maybe is why I got so pissed on this hand, esp. because I would have pushed and won but I just can't understand the play by the UTG.

[Apathy]

meh, doesnt really matter if it was collusion or not, assuming this was party this is not nearly clear cut enough so they won't do anything about it. Just avoid a table if you see the two players together again.

The thing is they are right beside each other so they probably had better spots to chip dump.

[apd138]

This seems like somoene tried to explain bubble strategy with a big stack to a newb.

[FishBurger]

It's most likely incompetent play. I was going to report two players at the $22s wherein one told the other to call his bet so that they could knock me out (I was in the BB). However, when I said I was going to report them, one of them said, "Good. Do me a favor. I've dropped $2K on this site in two months." After that comment, a light bulb went on in my head and I decided not to report them.

I doubt if I will ever again report anyone for collusion, because most of what looks like collusion at the lower buyins is just really bad play -- and we don't want to discourage really bad players from making really bad plays.

[Slim Pickens]

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Needless to say the BB won.

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pokenum -h kh 7c - 4s 3d / kd td
Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
7c Kh 823651 60.09 537540 39.21 9563 0.70 0.604
4s 3d 537540 39.21 823651 60.09 9563 0.70 0.396

Smooth Jimmy's "Lock of the Week" right there...