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Originally Posted by inmyrav
That's a strategy I've used, not in collusion with others but on my own. It's not a problem with cheating necesssarily, it's a group of players with a similar play style of late regging near the registration cut off, in an effort to get into a tournament where they can almost guarantee cashing, and possibly running up a big win (didn't work for me as I'm too impatient, but it could work for good players).
This is not against the rules in anyway, if you allow late registration you are effectively people can register whenever they choose. The problem is if the players are attempting to work together. I was not. But if you seat all the new players at a new table, then the players will APPEAR to be colluding.
No, I get what you are saying, but that is not what is happening here. They all enter at the exact same time under the same conditions. Then they time down and/or disconnect to stall into the money. I have crashed hundreds of games at the last minute that were close to and even in the money. I don't time out, just hope for a multi-way pot or sit with min cash maniacs that I can shove my way to some chips. Last minute entry with the hopes of min cashing via stalling is really not as much a strategy as it is a declaration of bankroll. The players I circled are always doing the same thing. At the very least, it is a group of people working together to exploit the clock, aka collusion.
As far as the Mac client glitch goes, one of my guys plays on a Mac and is pretty cognizant of oddities. He has never noticed that and plays a ton of games. We will watch some tables together to see if he sees any cards prior to me. Often, we'll rail each other's games and it has never be noticed either, next card shown in advance. If we see it happen, then we will record some tables together to show it.
I'm no riggie by any stretch. I will probably get killed for this, but I am pro-WPN. I like playing there, I'm very comfortable in the games, and very aware of the style of play of the regs. When I have had issues in the past, both of their site reps have fixed them for me with little hesitation. I hope they get all this crap fixed. With that said, it is something extremely blatant if someone that is pro WPN is bitching about it.
An individual that is going to crash a game at the last minute will do it. The players I circled only do it when they are going to open a new table. Re-seat the tables when late reg is closed and this is solved forever. They literally take more than a full blind level for one orbit. Oh, and shut those accounts down until it can be proven it is one big massive coincidence that they all think 100% alike and just so happen to click the enter button at the same time. Malynaschuk, whatever the spelling is, is usually the first name to enter. I'd start with that one.
For the record, winning_td posted a thread about 6 months ago soliciting people to PM him screen shots of people late regging and then disconnecting for the extra time.