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Originally Posted by mjw006
That all sounds dandy but what about the random fish who's playing style may change quite significantly depending on their mood? Are we going to accuse them of cheating everytime? What about most really good players who adapt their play styles based on a vast array of factors in any given poker tournament? While it sounds great in theory I think it's almost impossible to start accusing people based off those things when we are all human and it's almost impossible to prove.
If you're too firm with it then innocent people get banned. If you're not firm enough with it then what's the point?
Yeah this.
Fwiw, when I was deep in a major tourney one of the guys I consider as beasts in the game told me that there's a high chance that one of my villain's was ghosted by player x. Can't say the name, but I found out that player x is a backer afterwards, so i asume the player who told me this either just thought that there's a possibility that the backer takes over accounts generally or he knew smth. Another horse of this backer who I consider as a good player but not in the beast category at all crushed a couple of majors for huge scores over a short period of time as well. But how the hell can I say any names without knowing ****., i mean these players were prolly picked by the backer for a reason, might be just happenstance. I think I srsly would be much more willing to talk in a kinda skype group or smth, without accusing people in public. That tip about player y might be ghosted by player x helped me a ton! Even if stuff like this isnt true, it's a bit like with huds in tourneys, you could rely on it blindly and fail or you can take the info you get and try to squeeze out additional edge. No way this can be stopped, thats what i think atm.
I also think what kleath said is true, altho i disagree with his flames he has lots of very good points. Like about posting strategy, i did it during my learning process, and it helped me a ton doing it!
But as someone who knows "everything" (not talking bout myslef) i think it's wrong doing it as a kind of favor.
And also, im in favor of banning huds. I used it for all the time pretty much, but im in general in favor of playing less tables and using more brain. They are overrated in tourneys anyway, someone runs on my hud at 12/9 and same guy runs on another hud much much looser. 12/9 iwas the result of never being deep with that guy n a tourney, it just faked his spewing tendecies. And before anyone says i was cheating, i was just talking with a friend about someone and i said he's a nit and he said he's not. That's it.
Another idea, why dont collect info and post it anonymously? For example we make a thread for this, some mod or whoever will be responsible for this thread. Any stuff about cheating will be sent to that guy and he posts it without saying who told him. If some info comes from some strange account he will add that this info might not be true, but if some hs pro sends him some info it prolly is true. This sounds quite simple to me. Maybe im missing smth tho.
Before someone feels the need to flame me for whatever reason, no im not a nazi. If U think im a fish, whatever. No, my mom doesnt know u, pretty sure. Etc etc (looks like a good signature for my 2p2 account)