Ezzwo, for an arrogant prick who acts c.ocky you don't show a lot of intelligence.
There are no pros while there are 2 big cons for having this rule.
I never mentioned a second con but I have to spel out everything for you I guess.
Here it goes:
Why this rule shouldn't exist?
1.
It's useless.
There already is a general tournament rule that says cheaters/colluders will be disqualified if caught.
This silly "Mustn't check the nuts on the river" rule addresses only one of many spots where collusion/softplay can occur and can be bypassed easily and in many ways by colluders, therefore = useless.
Basically, there are no pros for this rule.
Someone itt mentioned a pro for having the rule and a con for not having it:
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeDiego
It's not there to catch everyone, it's there to send out a message: softplaying and colluding is wrong. By getting rid of the rule it endorses checking the nuts behind because your opponent is a friend.
This quote is very important for the point I'll make later so I'll get back to it, for now I will only say that the message that colluding is wrong is common sense and it was sent with the general tournament rules.
It's not only wrong but it will get you disqualified.
But even if the rule is useless some of you need to hear cons or logical reasons as to why we should scrap what looks like a "it doesn't hurt anyone rule" to you.
Reasons 2 and 3 are the cons so I'll get to it.
2.
It forces fish to play correctly so it eats into good player's EV.
Darwin Moon's hand is a perfect example of this.
Because of this ******ed rule Moon and any fish that know about the rule is a better player now, think about that next time you have a calling hand on the river against a fish that has the nuts.
Here is the biggest con though:
3.
This rule eliminates the only spot where a player or a dealer can actually detect softplaying.
Unless there are holecards cameras and all hands are analized by experts to detect collusion, colluders/softplayers will only get caught by players/dealers that are on the lookout for those things.
Players police the games themselves.
The only way players/dealers will ever detect and have an evidence of softplaying is after a showdown.
This means that without this silly rule in place a colluder might slip and check the nuts on the river, which will alert the dealer and players to call floor and investigate for possible collusion.
So this dumb rule actually helps the cheaters, it alerts them to avoid the only spot where they might get caught which is fine for them, they can just muck the river or muck on other streets.
So why would tournament organizers implement such a ******ed rule that actually helps the case of colluders instead of preventing it?
Well, there are 2 possible answers:
A. People who made the rule are level 1 thinkers themselves.
B. People who made the rule are very smart and made it to put level 1 thinkers (like the dude I quoted) at ease.
I wont go deeper into B), I'll let you think of reasons for yourself, I'll give a tip though (catching colluders and cheaters is EV- for any poker room life or online,it reflects bad on poker in general and it costs them customers, they seem to follow a moto "What customers don't know wont hurt them"