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

[daveymck]

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.

PokerRoom.com is proud to introduce Team Tournaments, a new and exciting way to battle side-by-side with your friends against other teams.

Create a team with up to ten players and participate in Team Leagues and battle in Team Eliminators and various activities for Cash Rewards.

• Join a team and compete in exciting Team Tournaments

• Sign up for a league and play a full season

• Create and manage your own team

[gildwulf]

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

[Benholio]

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

[Kirko Bara]

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

[mattw]

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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.

[2+2 wannabe]

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

[JayLeno]

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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?

[daveymck]

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.

[Kirko Bara]

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

[JayLeno]

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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!