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Originally Posted by hetero_flush
Lol. No I'm not level 1. All I have contributed is: If you have a mountain of chips, and you can eliminate someone at 25:1 on your money, and you are last to act, and you don't call, TDs will see this as colluding and they will penalize.
Or more likely, the player that folded might a newbie/fish. This thread is making my head hurt, but my biggest issues with this rule are:
1) It does little to address the actual problem of collusion. The number of times the scenario comes up in a tournament where player A is colluding with player B and player A has the nuts in position vs player B is so rare that it surely dwarfs the number of times someone checks the nuts in position accidentally, or with a non-collusive reason to do so.
2) It could potentially embarrass the fish. Games are getting progressively tough enough as it is these days that we don't need more rules that needlessly embarrass the fish. I rarely watch TV poker but the first hand that came to mind when I read this thread was that hand that was posted later in the thread where the one "pro" says we both have quads and the other player checked in position, presumably because he thought they had the same hand or he wanted to see what she had. If "pros" do this kind of stuff, imagine how often fish do it.