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Easy E
09-22-2005, 03:28 PM
"WCOOP is the real deal By Steve Rosenbloom

<font color="green">"Panella86" cut a deal with "Vendetta" and "tralala." Each would take more than $500,000 of the prize pool, with $50,000 and the bracelet at stake.</font>

I don't play online- is it common to even split the vast majority of the prize pool 3-ways and play for a pittance? Were the chip stacks all around even?

Because I surely would be looking hard at hand histories and previous rounds after seeing this, if I'd been in the WCOOP main event.
tpir90036
09-22-2005, 03:40 PM
You're kidding right? People make deals at the end of tournaments all the time. Live and on-line. I would have been more suprised if they didn't make a deal with such huge money at stake for the top few spots.
Georgia Avenue
09-22-2005, 03:46 PM
Plus they tried to cut a deal with the 4th and 5th place finishers... both of whom refused to deal.

So if they were colluding, they were doing a crappy job!
stabn
09-22-2005, 03:57 PM
Yes. And that is true for B&amp;M tournaments as well.
drewjustdrew
09-22-2005, 04:01 PM
First consider that there were 1400 players + in the event. How likely is it that these 3 players knew each other? Not very.
MicroBob
09-22-2005, 04:50 PM
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is it common to even split the vast majority of the prize pool 3-ways and play for a pittance? Were the chip stacks all around even?

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Yes and yes.
The deal is overseen by Stars support (in this case...Lee Jones was there to supervise the deal).

This was x-posted over in another forum too?? It's a really ridiculous question for even one forum..much less two.
GuyOnTilt
09-22-2005, 08:11 PM
LOL. You have how many posts?

GoT
Kevmath
09-22-2005, 08:15 PM
Are we sure that someone didn't infiltrate E's account and make this post? This seems like an incredibly naive question to ask, even if he doesn't play online.
stabn
09-22-2005, 08:58 PM
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LOL. You have how many posts?

GoT

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What makes it even funnier is that while most of his posts are in OOT/Sports his largest number of on-topic posts seem to be in the MTT forum.
Army Eye
09-23-2005, 01:25 PM
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B Dids
09-23-2005, 01:55 PM
My new thing is join date vs. post count (I call it "THE TSC Effect".

So like "you've been regged since 2002"?
Easy E
09-23-2005, 04:52 PM
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My new thing is join date vs. post count (I call it "THE TSC Effect".

So like "you've been regged since 2002"?

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Now, how do I interpret what this means, from someone who has 3600 posts in half a year??

Seriously, what does your new ratio tell you? Or is this just used to dismiss supposed stupidity... /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Easy E
09-23-2005, 04:54 PM
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Are we sure that someone didn't infiltrate E's account and make this post? This seems like an incredibly naive question to ask, even if he doesn't play online.

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Full explaination/rationalization to come later, when I have some time. For now, let's just say that I've learned my 2+2 marketing tricks over the years..

And yes, I don't play online, so there was a semi-serious question disguised in the post.
B Dids
09-23-2005, 04:56 PM
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My new thing is join date vs. post count (I call it "THE TSC Effect".

So like "you've been regged since 2002"?

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Now, how do I interpret what this means, from someone who has 3600 posts in half a year??

Seriously, what does your new ratio tell you? Or is this just used to dismiss supposed stupidity... /images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Reged: 02/01/04
Posts: 3604
Loc: I am Dids

09/23/2005 - 02/01/2004 != 6 months.
Easy E
09-23-2005, 04:56 PM
This reply scared me, until I realized that "on-topic posts" meant "about poker" and "recently"

I mean, I hardly ever post in MTT for several reasons- I haven't posted over there in months.
Easy E
09-23-2005, 05:04 PM
Okay, so attention to detail is off this afternoon.. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Can I claim I was flashing back to the oldie but goodie year of 2004?? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I am curious what you use this TSC Effect is and what you use it for.
Easy E
09-23-2005, 05:06 PM
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This was x-posted over in another forum too?? It's a really ridiculous question for even one forum..much less two.

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I posted here first, then thought it might be more appropriate in the Zoo (too impatient to have a mod move it)... then I wasn't sure what kind of answers I'd get there (case in point (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3474014&amp;page=0&amp;view=c ollapsed&amp;sb=5&amp;o=14&amp;fpart=1)), so I decided WTF.

As to the judgement part... that answer is coming later on, when I have some time.
B Dids
09-23-2005, 06:01 PM
TSC=The Salt Cracka, a poster who ran up 10K posts almost totally in OOT. Basically so many posters are now running up huge post counts never talking about poker, post count has become a worse metric for judging poster quality.
stabn
09-23-2005, 07:03 PM
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This reply scared me, until I realized that "on-topic posts" meant "about poker" and "recently"

I mean, I hardly ever post in MTT for several reasons- I haven't posted over there in months.

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I had to look back pretty far to find something in non-wpt/oot/sports. You did have a decent amount of posts in MTT 3+ months ago though. Enough that I would have thought you would understand deals and how common they are on the internet, especially in stars tournaments.
Easy E
09-23-2005, 07:34 PM
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TSC=The Salt Cracka, a poster who ran up 10K posts almost totally in OOT. Basically so many posters are now running up huge post counts never talking about poker, post count has become a worse metric for judging poster quality.

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*smack* I can't believe I missed the Cracker reference. I haven't been spending as much time in OOT these days.

And I don't think that metric ever had more than incidental value... but I agree it is exponentially less significant.