What Constitutes Internet Table Talk

[Emperor]

So I'm playing in a home game, 10 players, NL..

I have middle pair vs a complete LAG who pushes on a flushed board. I never touch my chips, I look up at him and say, "waddya have?" A complete angle shoot/just being a smart a$$.

He proceeds to tell me he has the nuts.

I instantly pitch my cards in the muck, and apologize explaining I didn't think he would tell me. I only had middle pair and had no intention of calling.

Needless to say this did not go over very well.

Angle shooting is just plain wrong and I will go out of my way not to do it, and to report anyone I see doing it to support.

Heck sometimes I'll tick a table coach off so he cusses at me and then report it to support...Thats the extent of my angle shooting now.

[krazyace5]

I don't see anything wrong with that?

[Emperor]

Well when I said "Waddya have?" He obviously thought I was calling and tabled his hand.

Caught me completely offguard. I looked like an ass, deservedly because I was just being funny and it ended up not being so funny when he thought I called and tabled his hand.

Whoops.

Anyone know how NL works in a B&M in this situation?

[DeuceKicker]

Totally the other guy's fault. Had you said, "I call" he might have a beef.

[emonrad87]

Yeah, this wasnt your fault at all. You weren't making any move to call, and you clearly had no intent to get him to say that. He should know better than to say stuff like that.

[RollaJ]

Funny you should mention this.... here is a hand from today on Empire
<font color="blue"> ***** Hand History for Game 1402413428 *****
$100 NL Hold'em - Friday, January 07, 11:04:31 EDT 2005
Table Table 27928 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 10: RollaJ2 ( $281.8 )
Seat 6: Boston925 ( $284.15 )
Seat 8: ciccio2 ( $546.37 )
Seat 1: Allaces10 ( $73.23 )
Seat 5: KyoSouma ( $175.95 )
Seat 3: moneyxie ( $147.55 )
moneyxie posts small blind [$1].
KyoSouma posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RollaJ2 [ 5d 6d ]
&gt;You have options at Table 14291 (6 max) Table!.
&gt;You have options at Table 11928 Table!.
Boston925 calls [$2].
ciccio2 calls [$2].
RollaJ2 calls [$2].
Allaces10 folds.
&gt;You have options at Table 14291 (6 max) Table!.
moneyxie raises [$4].
KyoSouma calls [$3].
Boston925 calls [$3].
ciccio2 calls [$3].
RollaJ2 calls [$3].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7d, 4h, 8d ]
moneyxie checks.
KyoSouma checks.
Boston925 bets [$15].
ciccio2 calls [$15].
RollaJ2 raises [$75].
moneyxie folds.
KyoSouma folds.
Boston925 folds.
ciccio2 calls [$60].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
ciccio2 bets [$55].
RollaJ2 is all-In [$201.8]
moneyxie: hahaha
&gt;You have options at Table 11928 Table!.
moneyxie: troble?
moneyxie: he got 56
ciccio2 folds.
RollaJ2 shows [ 5d, 6d ] a straight, five to nine.
RollaJ2 wins $444.8 from the main pot with a straight, five to nine.
</font>

I then let the guy know that talking was against the rules. So of course he started cursing and calling me an idiot..... So I emailed support at Empire

Here is a response from Empire

[ QUOTE ]
Dear Jon,

We would like to thank you for bringing to our notice the inappropriate conversation in Game Table 27928. We discourage such activities on our site and hence have requested them an explanation for the same. We have also issued him warning and have further put a block on his chat privileges.

Given the evidence shown by the hand you have sent and our chat records, we have proceeded to block the chat feature of players (moneyxie).

We have also informed the player that any repetition could lead to permanent ban from our site. We have flagged the accounts and are continuously monitoring the game play.

We keep all suspicious activities logged in a notes section on the account. If he repeats this action, we will have the details of the hand you were involved in as further evidence and will take more drastic action if necessary.

We thank you for the report; we appreciate it, as keeping the games honest is our highest priority.

Should you have any further questions, comments or concerns, please contact us via e-mail at alerts@EmpirePoker.com.

Nicholas Bradman
Investigations Team
alerts@EmpirePoker.com
www.EmpirePoker.com

[/ QUOTE ]

<font color="purple"> Service on the first try.....WOW! </font>