collusion at Party Poker

[PokerNeophyte]

I wouldn't normally post a hand history, but this is just absurdly blatent. The two players' involved (Bruno13 and Dykee_Doo) are even listed as being from the same town (Findlay, wherever that is).

I emailed partypoker; will report back when i get a response.

**** Hand History for Game 409643698 *****
Table Candle Light (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 7: bulllets ( $89.5 )
Seat 9: frege ( $40 )
Seat 8: mmazzaro ( $230 )
Seat 1: helrazor ( $226.5 )
Seat 6: middletonjr ( $13 )
Seat 5: shawnp56 ( $207 )
Seat 4: jmandick ( $84 )
Seat 10: Bruno13 ( $197 )
Seat 3: Dykee_Doo ( $197 )
Seat 2: texleo ( $68 )
frege posts small blind [$1].
Bruno13 posts big blind [$3].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to frege [ 3c Jd ]
helrazor folds.
texleo calls [$3].
Dykee_Doo calls [$3].
shawnp56 calls [$3].
middletonjr folds.
bulllets folds.
mmazzaro calls [$3].
frege folds.
Bruno13 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, Qc, 6c ]
Bruno13 checks.
texleo checks.
Dykee_Doo bets [$3].
shawnp56 calls [$3].
mmazzaro calls [$3].
Bruno13 calls [$3].
texleo calls [$3].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
Bruno13 checks.
texleo folds.
Dykee_Doo bets [$6].
shawnp56 folds.
mmazzaro calls [$6].
Bruno13 raises [$12].
Dykee_Doo calls [$6].
mmazzaro calls [$6].
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
Bruno13 checks.
Dykee_Doo bets [$6].
mmazzaro calls [$6].
Bruno13 raises [$12].
Dykee_Doo raises [$12].
mmazzaro calls [$12].
Bruno13 raises [$12].
Dykee_Doo calls [$6].
mmazzaro calls [$6].
Bruno13 shows high card king.
Dykee_Doo shows a flush, ace high.
mmazzaro doesn't show.
Dykee_Doo wins $136 from the main pot with a flush, ace high.

[Losing all]

I think that's in Ohio. Probably dirty buckeye fans. btw- That does look funny, if you don't get a decent response I'd email Mike O'Malley if I were you.

[PokerNeophyte]

Thanks for the tip--where can I find Mike O'malley's email? It definitely was dirty. There was another hand where Dykee_Doo flopped a set of jacks; Bruno raised for him on the flop so he could just call and then folded the turn.

[bigpooch]

[crockpot]

if they do nothing about this, then party's support really is as bad as everyone claims.

[PokerNeophyte]

I have to say--I'm very impressed with the Party customer service response to this. I received an email today telling me that the two player accounts involved had been closed.

[Zwiggelte]

That is good news...Did also the players who lost, their money back from Party?

[bouh]

hi,

How can you say it's collusion ? is it because bruno13 raise when the 3rd diamond hit and he has nothing at this moment and then go in a raise war to build a big pot ? perhaps he could just try to steal the pot ?
Sorry for the (probably) dumb question but I just try to understand [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

bouh.

[PokerNeophyte]

So far as I know, players weren't refunded losses. But, it's unclear whether there were any losses to refund. The email I received also indicated that the colluders were doing a particularly poor job at cheating. Thank can't but make me smile. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[UncleDuke]

[ QUOTE ]
How can you say it's collusion ? is it because bruno13 raise when the 3rd diamond hit and he has nothing at this moment and then go in a raise war to build a big pot ? perhaps he could just try to steal the pot ?


[/ QUOTE ]

It was a third club actually, but I think it's the river that removes all doubt about it being collusion. Bruno check-raises with nothing and then raises yet again when he is obviously beaten by at least one and almost certainly both of the other players. Even if he's a spectacularly bad player, it's pretty inconceivable that he could have any hopes of both other players folding to the final raise on the river.

Interestingly, the two suspects even started the hand with the same amount of money. It looks like they probably sat down at the same time with the default buy-in and posted 1 BB to get started.

-UD