Collusion in a 4th STEP?

[AlwaysWrong]

"here I’ll double you tuck" is vague enough that I think it would be acceptable. It's something that I hear people say in live tournaments all the time and it says nothing about their hand.

"got to dodge my live cards though" is bad. This will get him a warning. At the very least it says, "I do not have a pocket pair."

"with a 63" - That is pretty borderline. Since he is the last one with any choices in the hand, the only thing wrong I see is that he is enticing more from the other player. Just from that it seems bad enough to get him warned, but nothing major will come.

"hey are alos (spelling, meant also) live" - That is so way over the line it is stupid.

tuck64 deserves just a warning, and that's what I expect he will get.

Redhotballz should get a significant penalty, though I expect he will just get warned as well.

I have emailed alerts@partypoker.com a couple of times and they have taken action, though not to the extent of giving me any money, or actually DOING anything. They will look at the incident though, and they do take this stuff seriously.

[M.B.E.]

The entire payout structure of the STEPS tournaments (4th level and below) is totally susceptible to collusion. I don't play them for that reason.

[ThorGoT]

How so? Not challenging you, just curious.

[M.B.E.]

Chip dumping is profitable in the STEP structure but not in a 50/30/20 SNG. That's about as much detail as I'm comfortable posting on a public forum.

[boedeker]

give me a mother flopping break, the dude had 95 chips behind at blinds 200/100. he had 200 into the pot in his bb. i move all in before i said anything. the sb folds before i say anything. if a single person on this message board would fold if you were in tucks position i will cut my god damn finger right here. i could have told him the jesus himself told me that i would win the hand and he would have called.

you guys are lame, btw cheif you played that step 4 like [censored].

[KJS]

I only play on Paradise, but there they disable chat as soon as a player goes all-in. Not sure it would have changed anything in your case, but they should institute that precaution at minimum.

KJS

[KJS]

So why did you say something?

KJS

[bads33d]

Cut him a break.

And I guarantee party poker will not give you a refund, you just wasted your precious time to write to them.

On the side note, these things are heavily populated with collusion. Beware.

I played with my friend before, and I can see this as a big problem. Even though I knocked him out, I can see stealing each others blinds and chip dumping at the end to even out each others stacks as a big problem.

[boedeker]

oh yeah and for the record raja, im not an [censored]. i was just having a little fun.

[KJS]

I am withholding judgment; only asked because I was curious.

KJS