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Zer0-0uts
Rock Star
Silver Level
So everyone talks about collusion on sites. I want to talk about, "Implied Collusion." I want to sort of rant about an idiot on ignition Poker. I was playing in a satellite for a $10 tournament ticket to any $10 + $1 tournament on the site. The buy in was $2.00 + .20c. If I remember things right there were about 40 or so players in the satellite. The satellite paid a $10 ticket to the top 8 finishers. So it gets down to 2 table left. I am stacked decent. As things progressed and the bubble grew closer I tightened up, as did most stacked players. There was this one guy who kept betting and betting and betting. He was stealing pot after pot because people didn't want to waste chips so close to the bubble. There were a few hands were he pulled that crap on me. I had a decent starting hand so I called. I flopped good and he C-bet. I called and he checked down his loosing hand. After about the 3rd or 4th time of this happening against me he stopped messing with me.
Fast forward to the final table. There are 9 players at this final table. 8 players all win a ticket. There is one player who is sitting out with the smallest stack of the final table. At the start of the final table the guy has about 10 BB left in his stack. He is sitting out. Everyone else at the final table is stacked well enough to just play the blinds and check down every hand to guarantee a win. Not this idiot though. He wants to bet ever single hand. He is stealing pot after pot. Everyone else at the table gets it. Everyone else understands the simplicity of just play your blinds when it's your turn and check down until the short stack is gone.
The moral of this story, the reason for this post is to say if you are playing in a satellite tournament and you are in a situation like this PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, play smart. Don't be an idiot.
Fast forward to the final table. There are 9 players at this final table. 8 players all win a ticket. There is one player who is sitting out with the smallest stack of the final table. At the start of the final table the guy has about 10 BB left in his stack. He is sitting out. Everyone else at the final table is stacked well enough to just play the blinds and check down every hand to guarantee a win. Not this idiot though. He wants to bet ever single hand. He is stealing pot after pot. Everyone else at the table gets it. Everyone else understands the simplicity of just play your blinds when it's your turn and check down until the short stack is gone.
The moral of this story, the reason for this post is to say if you are playing in a satellite tournament and you are in a situation like this PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, play smart. Don't be an idiot.