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Originally Posted by PocketInfinities
How was this signaled?
so I am in 3 seat - signaler 1 (S1 here on out) was seat 4 and signaler 2 (S2) was seat 5.
They had a different system for each other, but S1's was easiest to spot right away - he simply would drop a chip or 2 (usually 1 dollar chips) as a "card protector".
At first i just assumed he was bad at telegraphing his folds but then i started paying attention to both of them.
The hand that really tipped me off to the signal was when S1 was UTG and made it 14 to go, his buddy himmed and hawed for longer than necessary while constantly glancing at his friends cards tip his friend finally dropped the chip protector on and he insta mucked.
In other situations, he would just come along and not protect his cards meaning he didn't have a strong hand but was in there and would turn his cards and not hold them in his hand.
his friends signal, S2, was a little more sophisticated since he was acting post S1. His "i have a hand" was to turn his cards 90 degrees and keep them a little in front and to the right of his chip stack. As opposed to other times when he'd have his hands all over his cards.
I wasn't able to decipher any other cues - and maybe it really did just end there.
But there were plenty of instances once i realized what was happening where both guys would be in the pot and S2's decisions would revolve constantly around his friends cards for the most part. Odd thing is you would think they wouldn't be sitting right next to each other and would at least try to maximize by putting some players between them.
I explained that last statement to myself simply by the fact that they were just terrible card players and potentially could just be starting out their signaling methods without really trying to mess with action until they were better at it - or they simply were too stupid to realize how to effectively utilize a team play.
I guess also, they were just simply trying to soft play each other and the signaling really did end at the "i have it" signal. I don't know enough techniques about signaling to find more, but these were rather obvious to me.
This is an alias account btw as i don't wish to out my normal account with this kind of ****, and i apologize if this casts any kind of doubt.
My real concern however is how does this usually get handled by the floor? (or how should it be handled?)
S1 eventually went broke and S2 took a long break as it seemed like S1 had no money left and just came back and picked up his stack.
Raye - I'm curious how Sugarhouse plans to handle **** like this?