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Originally Posted by NickMPK
From last night's broadcast, Kassouf was talking in many cases in which were, to me, clearly unacceptable. Most frequently, he was talking preflop before he even looked at his cards. Not only does this slow the game down on every single hand, but it is against the rules because at that point it is not a heads-up pot.
Additionally, he was calling out cards and just blathering nonstop when his opponent was all in and drawing to one out (the KK vs. JJ hand where they both flopped sets). This has no strategic value whatsoever and is just taunting an opponent right before he is knocked out of the tournament. How can anyone be defending this guy?
No. Talking about the hand with action left is
absolutely against the rules and a massive breach of etiquette, even in a heads-up pot, in tournament play. The fact that even 90% of people on this board don't get this principle is a good demonstration of why it happens and why TDs need to continue to smack the sh*t out of people who do it. The sheer amount of unintentional collusion you get in most live tournaments these days just ruins the game.
I get why it's sometimes justified and tolerated as "good for the game" because most casuals like the chatter. But it's *not* a poker play. Unintentional chitchat is fine, but if he's trying to influence action as part of his strategy, that's absolutely not a legitimate strategy.
When non-participating players can have their equity impacted by someone's talk while they're all outside of the pot, that is not "just poker". Keep your table talk strats to cash games.
Last edited by stiglitz80; 10-04-2016 at 02:06 AM.