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Originally Posted by Cog Dissonance
People thought the 100s cartel would never work.
This is true, but I think it was mainly because the last one was so disorganized and failed to hold people accountable.
This one is not even 2 months old, but seems to have been done far better than the last attempt.
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Originally Posted by pavels4444
Remember your words for next year when some will have to battle 7usd mafia
Haha.
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Originally Posted by MojaveDreams
Can you stop these cartel regs sitting you with sharkystrator? i have not used the program so i am unsure
No, the program doesn't let you avoid people that want to play you.
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Originally Posted by AggroSquid
apologies for ignorance but, what is "the cartel"? What is the point of it?
Is it just regs not battling regs and battling weaker players?
If so this is the problem with poker at the minute, regs not battling regs everybody waiting on one fish.
It's the opposite. The better regs at most levels (say, $100-1ks, but probably $60s now) don't want to wait for lobbies. In the past, they've been far too complacent about what regs can sit the lobbies without testing them. The lower in stakes you go the more of a problem it has been, so groups of primarily better regulars have decided from now on they will hold each other accountable to sit other regulars not in the group (they can also sit each other if they want, there's no rule about not sitting another person in the group, which I think makes this clearly OK to do).
In practice, everyone is a human being, so nothing is perfect, but things are going well overall I believe for most levels. There's always going to be friends and family members that get in that shouldn't, especially at lower levels, and some other unfair things, but that's sort of life. By and large, it seems these have worked well to eliminate what had become too soft of a bumhunters way up the stakes in HUSNGs (similar to HU Cash). Luckily, enough people have realized that just a little test to earn your keep at any level is enough to eliminate some of the weaker players.
Having a tough mentality, keeping emotions under control and not spewing all over when running bad vs good players is now a skill of HUSNGs again.