Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice in.
 

Just got an email from Pokerroom this seems a bad idea to me, may give people ideas and a format to practice and refine their team playing techniques.

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Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice
 

That is possibly the worst idea I've heard from a pokerroom since the 20X reload bonus.

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Yeah, bad idea, blah blah blah. But who wouldn't enjoy making a 2p2 team and smashing the crap out of everybody??

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Could that be that you have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about?

There's no risk for collusion (I'd say it's less risk for collusion in these Team Tournaments than in any other tournament), because players from the same team will never play each other.

But, yeah, go ahead and bash before you even read what it's all about. Please.

The Quirky Kirko

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There's no risk for collusion (I'd say it's less risk for collusion in these Team Tournaments than in any other tournament), because players from the same team will never play each other.

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if they never play each other, they will never trap an oppenent. they arent very good colluders.

Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice
 

I think this is a great idea from PokerRoom - I know that 4 months ago I'd have been super pumped about it

PokerRoom also has that Pokah! community - so setting up teams will be pretty easy

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Could that be that you have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about?

There's no risk for collusion (I'd say it's less risk for collusion in these Team Tournaments than in any other tournament), because players from the same team will never play each other.

But, yeah, go ahead and bash before you even read what it's all about. Please.

The Quirky Kirko


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Have you actually thought about what he meant?
Doesnt sound like it.......
What he meant was that its not a good idea to train people in the way you could collude in normal tourneys.
Its like making a TV-program where you let 2 teams of prof burglars battle each other trying to break in some houses.....
Not a very good idea - is it?

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My assumption is that it is players from the same team playing other players from other teams in the same tournament/ at the same table like the live team championships that were on last year, if its 1 member only at a time then obviously it isnt that bad an idea.

But VC had issues when there were two teams there a lot of players outside the teams didnt like the fact and felt intimidated by it, there were accusations of collusion as well although none as far as I am aware were proven.

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True, that would be a bad idea. The thing here though is that it is one player from each team per table - they are never seated together and thus there can never be any collusion. Having two teams collude with each other is probably harder to organize than two individuals, right?

The Quirky Kirko

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it is one player from each team per table - they are never seated together and thus there can never be any collusion.

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Aha - I didnt know! Then I should have read the terms too. This should not be a problem regarding collusion.
I though cannot see what "team" then means here if they play their entirely isolated games - and whats the fun then?
Anyway - collusion shouldnt be an isue and thats good!

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now they need "fantasy teams" LOL, I'll trade you phil hellmouth for a chan, LOL

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Team here means that its the Team entity that makes the buy-in and receives the payout. So if you suck but the rest of your team rules, you'll be happy. Until you're kicked from the team for sucking too much, of course.

I just think it adds a social aspect to the game, and considering PokerRoom is the site with the most "community"-feeling (Pokah) it's quite natural they're leading this. I expect the people who love Fantasy League Football and that stuff will dive over this head first...

The Quirky Kirko

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now they need "fantasy teams" LOL, I'll trade you phil hellmouth for a chan, LOL

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Yeah, good luck getting rid of Hellmuth [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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now they need "fantasy teams" LOL, I'll trade you phil hellmouth for a chan, LOL

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Yeah, good luck getting rid of Hellmuth [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I select Andy Black's "blind defense".

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can someone explain this "pokah" to me? what is it?

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now they need "fantasy teams" LOL, I'll trade you phil hellmouth for a chan, LOL

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I'll give you Charlie Chan for him.

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can someone explain this "pokah" to me? what is it?

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pokah! is where all the pokerroom players can go to chat, talk about stuff etc. - it's set up much like 2+2

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I created a 'Brown Trouts' group and you can apply for it... people who replied here didnt really read what these team events are. You dont play in the same tournament as your team, there are league events with one member of each team as well as heads up matches and such, you dont really play with your teammates.
~Justin

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Its like making a TV-program where you let 2 teams of prof burglars battle each other trying to break in some houses.....
Not a very good idea - is it?

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They have a show like this already, and they use the results to improve alarm systems.

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Its like making a TV-program where you let 2 teams of prof burglars battle each other trying to break in some houses.....
Not a very good idea - is it?

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They have a show like this already, and they use the results to improve alarm systems.

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I can imagine the interview process for that. "Can you list some references please" "Sure there was the job on 128th street" "You're under arrest"

Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice
 

Very first league (called "Invitational") is starting in 45 minutes. Was supposed to start last night but something didn't fly then... well, PokerRoom added $1,000 or so to the prize pool and rescheduled so I think the invited players were happy with the it anyway. Anyway, it's going to be cool to watch exactly how this is going to work. The PR client has a "Team" tab now, believe the tournaments will show up there soon.

The Quirky Kirko