A bit unusual to praise a person who is driven by his bigotry by complimenting him on how much time he devotes to that obsession.
The problem is that even if some of the hands show potential collusion - he cherry picks any hand that suits his needs, even if there is no chance of it being actual collusion, and doing that (while naming specific players) is not correct.
There is zero chance I will read all his crazy, but let's just look at the first hand he posted and see what we find. He was even nice enough to comment in the table chat about it. In it he is accusing the following players:
dporebski
00maso00
of soft play, since they are both from Poland. Let's look at each of their histories.
dporebski has played over 18,000 tournaments lifetime (about 10 years), about 8,500 of them are SnGs. He had a huge bink in 2009 for about 50K, then lost at poker for a couple years - giving back about 40K of it, then he seemed to get it together and has done reasonably since, playing relatively low volume (about 2,000 games last year and 500ish this year).
His graph is the typical one of a casual player who got very lucky, spewed a bunch back, got better at poker, and has been playing very casually since, with his results flattening as the games got harder, although he is still winning. Likely at this point it is a hobby to make spending money for him.
00maso00 has played 14,000ish games lifetime, 10,000ish are SnGs over 5-6 years. His graph is one that might appear in the amusing sharkscope graphs thread as whenever he has binked a MTT for 3-4K he immediately upped his buy in and spewed it all back very quickly. Other than those binks, its steady losing.
Basically, he is a fairly routine donk with degen tendencies whenever he gets lucky. He is the type of player the regs hopes keeps playing.
Completely different types of players, other than sharing a country, but let's see how many games they actually played together of the tens of thousands each have played lifetime.
212 games total, with a whopping 40ish together in the past year. Oh yeah, many of those are the all-in shootout freerolls that get played without the players being there, and many others are 10,000+ player tournaments like the Storm...
A donk played a single hand like a donk (he probably did not see he had a straight, and even the OP incorrectly called it the nuts - when 8 10 would be), and immediately this guy sees softplay between them.
These two players could not be more different if they tried, and they have basically never played together in their respective careers. So two guys, both casual players now (one a winner one a donk) that have nothing to do with each other at the tables lifetime suddenly take the time to identify the countries of the other players at the table (uncommon behavior) and see each other are from Poland, so they immediately join the country wide collusion skype chat? Whatever.
This is the problem with the OP. He cherry picks hands between two players from Poland that on the surface look "strange" and he immediately comes up with a cheating theory to fit them, even if a little research would show the players clearly have nothing to do with each other. He casually tosses the user names of players who did nothing wrong, so even if some of the examples are cheating - one cannot take what the OP says seriously.
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Originally Posted by coach999
Great work, OP! Something has to be done, Pokerstars!
OK, what would you have Pokerstars "do" in the example I researched? Ban both players due to their country? If you want to take the time to look at his other hands he posted you will likely find that most will also show no relation between the players, but I doubt you will bother, so you can just save time and explain what Pokerstars should do.
Last edited by Monteroy; 09-07-2016 at 09:47 AM.
