Everyone going on about backup internet should read what the disconnected guy actually said happened.

Ok then, how about back up computer. Surely if you're gonna play high stakes you should have a back up computer. I'm just a rec player, I usually play on my laptop, but I've got all the poker clients installed on my desktop.

My laptop crashed, no problem, within a minute or two I'll be back in the game

Does it suck? Yes. Is it a problem that your opponent should care about? No. It's your and only your job to make sure you have a backup if something like this happens. Especially at higher stakes. Does acr have a mobile app?

Not true. They haven't had a problem for months.

They've been known for this problem for years.

Well, when after a couple of posts, you come back with this:

I'm kind of inclined to agree with this:

I mean, I don't know what other point there could be to this thread. I suppose it could have been created because you were interested in hearing other people's perspectives, but when you drop back in half a dozen posts later to express your faux regret about having a conscience and it being a curse , it sure doesn't seem that way any more. Either you want to hear what other people think because you're genuinely interested and might even be open to alternative viewpoints, or you can drop in your judgements of others, in which case you should expect some people to come to the same conclusion that Kelvis did.

Also, this really doesn't belong in IP, so I'm going to move it over to NVG and lets mods there do as they see fit.

What up Humboldt!

what happens if you both time out? Say you just sit there, waiting for the other guy to get reconnected? If you time out, and he's timed out, do you keep getting cards, passing the chips back and forth?

til the power goes out and you are paying 3 bills for nothing

Sb just fold every hand until the blinds get high enough that they are forced allin

Real grinders have a generator or grind in their car all while trying to risk carbon monoxide poisoning.

So you can play on ACR from the UK?

Yeah clearly raise every hand, expect anyone else to do the same. Not doing so is a massive -ve freeroll

If I somehow knew my opponents would wait for me, then I'd wait. Otherwise I don't feel like freerolling myself and id auto raise every hand because I'd expect the standard opponent to do the same to me.

Maybe as a courtesy, I'll wait a few seconds before raising, but it wouldn't take more than one or two hands before I just have to shrug and take their blinds. (For what it's worth, I never played at such stakes, but I'm guessing I'd do the same in a bigger game.)

Over the long haul, it will probably even out – that is, an internet disconnection is just as likely to work to your advantage as often as it screws you.


There was one time when I had KK on the button, so I waited as long as I could in the hopes that the opponent would reconnect in time to play the hand (or three-bet). Didn't work, though. The guy never came back and I was on the verge of timing out myself. But that would be the exception to clicking the Raise button ASAP.


This is an interesting point. At higher stakes, you are more likely to have two regs running into each other. If I knew the other player, and I knew he would wait for me, or I hoped he might do that for me if the roles were reversed, then such conditions would be an argument for giving him as much time as possible to reconnect.

Ultimately, this really has nothing to do with a "conscience" or "having to live with yourself," it's just the reality of the situation.

Pretty common for people to try to blind you out in micro or low stakes MTTs and SNG/HUSNGS etc in general, nevermind when there is 50k+ on the line lol

"LET ME JUST FINISH THIS FT BEFORE MY GENERATOR RUNS OUT OF GAS. ITS IN MY KITCHEN SO ITS NOT TOO TOO LOUD"

this has always been the standard, idk why the debate. and id trust about zero random midstakes grinders to not go for the pj as fast as they can

I'm just shocked that a guy from the UK would pick a point guard that went to Weber State.

I think anybody can play acr.

if you're playing online poker you have to be prepared for things like this happening and have atleast one backup internet.
Unless you know the other person or playing a high stakes cash game which is railed by many people, you'd be an idiot not to capitalize on this opportunity.

So if someone challenges me to a speedskating race for money and I accept and my opponents skate blade falls off causing him not to be able to continue I am suppose to stop. If I don't stop this is equivalent to stealing my opponents money.

Sounds dodgy.

Perhaps at all related to the skype disconnect hacks from a long time ago?:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...-will-1316970/

why is anyone surprised a seeming majority of posters would capitalize on this and act unethically? Countless accounts of cheating, scamming and poor behavior have been minimized year after year by poker players. I was at Aria the other night, recounting an angleshoot in that room I witnessed and I swear two players not only supported the loser pulling the angle but took notes on how to pull it off for future use.

There are many people I've come to like playing poker, but a ton of unseemly, desperate types who make me glad I have a career outside poker.

Lol, yes sir, green as hell here and smells like a damn skunk everywhere! Weird......