Re: Party Snowball Tournament - A Joke
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Another table had 2 players who were there and 8 who weren't. These 2 players worked out a deal so that they would take turns stealing the blinds of the away people.
Another table had a simular arangement between 3 players.
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Party apparently conducted a tournament in which open collusion occurred on more than one table. Please don't say this is a victimless crime:
1. An agreement to evenly split the proceeds instead of having a random split based on normal competition is +EV for the colluders and -EV for everyone else. This is standard theory for MTTs with multiple prizes.
2. The collusion undoubtedly allowed hands to be played much faster. That's an unfair advantage over players who divided up the dead money through honest play. The colluders get to mop up their tables quickly and move onto other tables where dead money is still present.
3. Most important, open cheating makes a mockery of online poker.
The organizers have an obligation to find a way to clean this up.
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