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Old 11-24-2005, 05:55 AM
daveymck daveymck is offline
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Default Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice in.

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.

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Old 11-24-2005, 05:57 AM
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

That is possibly the worst idea I've heard from a pokerroom since the 20X reload bonus.
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Old 11-24-2005, 07:47 AM
Kirko Bara Kirko Bara is offline
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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.

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Old 11-24-2005, 07:58 AM
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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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.
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Old 11-24-2005, 10:09 AM
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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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.

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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?
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Old 11-24-2005, 10:23 AM
daveymck daveymck is offline
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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.
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Old 11-24-2005, 10:44 AM
Kirko Bara Kirko Bara is offline
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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?

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Old 11-24-2005, 11:03 AM
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Default Re: Pokerroom gives the colluders a head start tournaments to practice

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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!
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Old 11-24-2005, 04:28 PM
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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?

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They have a show like this already, and they use the results to improve alarm systems.
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Old 11-24-2005, 04:35 PM
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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?

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They have a show like this already, and they use the results to improve alarm systems.

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I can imagine the interview process for that. "Can you list some references please" "Sure there was the job on 128th street" "You're under arrest"
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