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Originally Posted by redantfarm
.now that I think more about it...I have recently run across another incident where there was some soft play (the blind was 300 and the small stack had 300 in, but the big blind did not call the extra 43 dollars) in order to target another player he was verbally go at it with in chat...it didn't bother me as much at the time because I had a large stack...ironically I wound up being the one that got eliminated and the guy he was targeted must have got paid...I don't want to be a complainer but the chat feature seems to cause a lot of problems.
This is something different completely. This is an obvious -EV move for the villain. Any time there's anything similar to this, I write down the hand number, and 24 hours later, after the cards are visible, I review the last several hands of the tournament, and if I suspect collusion, I report it (or I would -- honestly haven't seen anything suspicious yet)
What the OP is talking about is what you're supposed to do (other than the whole talking about it part). There's nothing at all wrong with it, as long as you don't try to make a verbal agreement with other players at the table. What you're talking about can be against the rules, if the player is trying to keep another player in the tournament. If there were other plays in that tournament that the players were doing the same thing, I would definitely report the person. You never know, they might be a pair of players that are colluding constantly, stealing money from lots of people.
Edit: Just realized you are
the OP, but eh, same difference.