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Here's what happened. This was a 9-player sng satellite where top 2 gets entry and 3rd gets buy-in back.
We were down to 3 players. Villain had 7k. I had 5k. short-stack who was also sitting out had less than 2k.
From this structure and environment, ideally, best thing to do is keep our mouths shut, blind out the sitout and we both gets entries.
Villain sat right of me while short-stack sat left of me.
Villain starts playing like a moron, shoving every hand. I had pocket Jacks from big blind. He shoved all-in against me from small blind. Ideally, I don't have to play my cards, just fold my way to win. But since he was being a pos, I decided to call off my whole chipstack with Jacks. He rolls over 97o. I won that huge pot, putting me in dominating position of 10k. Idiot was down to 2k or so, which puts him at level of sitout's stack. To give him a taste of his own medicine, I started shoving against his blinds. I don't know what he was writing on the chatbox, I tried to ignore. Idiot who was shoving on my blinds before all of a sudden folds to my blinds. I intentionally folded to sitout's big blind to keep him alive so I can toy with the villain and show how stupid he is.
In the end, my KQ suited knocked his A6o, sitout and I won the entries while he got 3rd. He was writing all sorts of noise in French that i didn't understand and then writes something in English like "report.............collusion".
I was laughing so hard, then asked few people if this is part of collusion. Some say that it's part of big stack strategy and no way involved in collusion since i didn't even know any of them. Some asked me what i folded and shoved with. I folded to sitout's blind while holding A6o. I shoved against villain's blind with 26o and worse. They say that itself can be part of collusion.
Regardless of if it's collusion or not, I've learned that cards are irrelevant in tournaments when you can use chipstack to control the table. I've learned that sometimes, keeping small stacks barely active can be beneficial to bully around middle stacks. I'm assuming that these plays are very standard in DoN. Can be quite funny to manipulate the environment with solely chipstack itself where you don't even need cards to get people to fold. I'm finding this somewhat similar to chess, where I put certain pieces on check so I can play strategically on taking down other pieces.
We were down to 3 players. Villain had 7k. I had 5k. short-stack who was also sitting out had less than 2k.
From this structure and environment, ideally, best thing to do is keep our mouths shut, blind out the sitout and we both gets entries.
Villain sat right of me while short-stack sat left of me.
Villain starts playing like a moron, shoving every hand. I had pocket Jacks from big blind. He shoved all-in against me from small blind. Ideally, I don't have to play my cards, just fold my way to win. But since he was being a pos, I decided to call off my whole chipstack with Jacks. He rolls over 97o. I won that huge pot, putting me in dominating position of 10k. Idiot was down to 2k or so, which puts him at level of sitout's stack. To give him a taste of his own medicine, I started shoving against his blinds. I don't know what he was writing on the chatbox, I tried to ignore. Idiot who was shoving on my blinds before all of a sudden folds to my blinds. I intentionally folded to sitout's big blind to keep him alive so I can toy with the villain and show how stupid he is.
In the end, my KQ suited knocked his A6o, sitout and I won the entries while he got 3rd. He was writing all sorts of noise in French that i didn't understand and then writes something in English like "report.............collusion".
I was laughing so hard, then asked few people if this is part of collusion. Some say that it's part of big stack strategy and no way involved in collusion since i didn't even know any of them. Some asked me what i folded and shoved with. I folded to sitout's blind while holding A6o. I shoved against villain's blind with 26o and worse. They say that itself can be part of collusion.
Regardless of if it's collusion or not, I've learned that cards are irrelevant in tournaments when you can use chipstack to control the table. I've learned that sometimes, keeping small stacks barely active can be beneficial to bully around middle stacks. I'm assuming that these plays are very standard in DoN. Can be quite funny to manipulate the environment with solely chipstack itself where you don't even need cards to get people to fold. I'm finding this somewhat similar to chess, where I put certain pieces on check so I can play strategically on taking down other pieces.
