Question about tournament chat

DougBrennan · #1 06-21-2004, 02:51 PM

I normally play with all chat off, as I find most of it annoying and/or inane. I'm a little older than most, so "nh", "ty", and "ru kddng me" do not strike me as communicating. This does not mean I wouldn't be happy to say hi to 2+2ers during breaks, and I often turn observer chat on for a bit at that time.

In reviewing my hand histories for last night's tourney I was able to see some of the chat I avoided, and this re-inforced my beliefs. Why do railbirds believe anyone on earth is interested in what they think about a hand?

I did read one comment that I shouldn't be playing with my chat off when the tourney was heads-up. My thoughts are this: I had no intention of making a deal, the thrill of winning is, for me, worth finishing 2nd sometimes, though to this stage I've been very fortunate in my heads-up results. So what purpose would having my chat on serve? I'm certainly not going to be doing any typing while playing h/u for a tourney win.

Do any of you think I should be playing with chat on? And why?

Doug

Note: I made a (for me) not too long post with some hands from last night's Rumble at the Rebuy, but it got lost when I hit continue to review. It wasn't all that interesting anyway, a few suckouts by me were the notable highlights.
If anyone has any questions or comments if they happened to see any of it, feel free to PM me or post, and I'll answer as well as memory allows.

paland · #2 06-21-2004, 04:05 PM

I've started to turn mine off too. Too much of it is juvenile and the rest is someone calling names because they got beat. I'm tired of the chat anymore.

Chief911 · #3 06-21-2004, 06:38 PM

I find it entertaining. That's all.

Nick

davidross · #4 06-21-2004, 06:45 PM

I have turned off the observer chat, but left the player chat on. I like this compromise, although then I might miss eMark giving me the needle.

DOTTT · #5 06-21-2004, 07:49 PM

Nothing wrong with turning your chat off, those railbirds do get very annoying. Anytime it gets late in a tournament for example down to 2 or 3 tables I’ll turn it off, otherwise it’s on most of the time because I’d miss some of you guys stopping by to say hello.

I do think your making a mistake when it gets down to heads up or 3 handed play, I think turning player chat on is a good idea here, perhaps they're offering you a deal that's very favorable to your position, and if you don't want a deal you can just tell them you'd like to play on, that way you don't come off as a dick, unless that's your intention [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

davidross · #6 06-21-2004, 10:16 PM

How do you make deals at PArty? I know u call a floorperson at Stars.

Tosh · #7 06-21-2004, 10:39 PM

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How do you make deals at PArty? I know u call a floorperson at Stars.

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Officially you can't. You can if you feel willing to trust the other player I guess, I've never seen one though.

DOTTT · #8 06-22-2004, 12:53 AM

You can't make deals at Party, I was referring to Stars.

pzhon · #9 06-22-2004, 05:49 AM

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How do you make deals at PArty? I know u call a floorperson at Stars.

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If you trust the people, you can make a deal and transfer/receive the money afterwards. Note that the normal system for transferring money on Party requires not just the nickname but also the real name of the target. I didn't get this information at one final table, and I had to spend some time with customer support to transfer the money.

Upon consideration, I don't think it is ethical to make certain deals at the final table at Party. On Stars, all players have to agree to the deal, and that is missing, allowing unethical collusion. For example, if two tiny stacks agree to split 2nd/3rd if the big stack wins, this deprives the big stack of the ability to threaten the smaller stacks. The small stacks would normally fight a folding contest for second place.

Myrtle · #10 06-22-2004, 09:03 AM

…………..There are many times (especially late in a tournament) when players will throw off some pretty revealing tells in the chat box.

The most obvious ones are when a player has some, but limited knowledge, of the game. These pop up like red flags, and allow the observant player to adjust their game to these “table experts”.

Chat can also allow you to get an idea when players go on tilt…The flame wars start…judge for yourself.

Regardless of how short the comment is….for example…”good hand, sir” as a comment can mean lots of different things, but is most likely “shorthand” spoken by a knowledgeable player when an opponent has played poorly and sucked out.

Since online play doesn’t offer you the same level of information as live play, I try to look for every bit of additional info that I can get, hence, I leave my chat on.