Well, you probably all know Stickman.
I mean he pissed off many regs but generally we are too lazy to do something in respond to his shady behavior.
For those of you who don't know, he steals buttons, breaks into heads up matches, maniacally changes seats to have a postion on a fish, quits as soon as fish quits (everyone has to follow to avoid being the last person posting BB). Etc.
You can read more here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...thread-838983/
Well, finally he had crossed the line.
For me it was breakin into my HU match on pokerstars with a guy i know in person. He wanted to play me and asked first for the hu many times. All regs quitted but he couldn't stop Stickman. He even tried to sit out and wait but Stickman didn't quit and didn't respond.
Stickman himself sometimes asks for HU on stars so it's not the case that he thought no one should play hu on stars or something.
There is only one 6max table of 250-500 on Party Poker. As you can predict most of the time this table is kinda crowded with waiting regs.
To avoid blocking the action entirely we have made a rule to never join the table as 6th person. If all 6 seats are taken a fish cannot take a seat and the table is dead. So no one should do it. And no one did.
Except for Stickman (IntoTheBrain on Party).
He blocked the table and he didn't care: "If I can't play, nobody will play".
So finally regs had to respond somehow. We created a skype channel for everyone who believes stickman is an unethical and shady low life person who should be taught a lesson. It wasn't hard to convince all Party regs to join.
Then we've blocked all Stickman tables on every site he plays (Ftp, Pokerstars, Ipoker, Party).
To avoid being kicked from the table he had to post his SB and force us to sit out. If you have 30 tables open its annoying to do it manually so he checked autopost checkboxes on ipoker and ftp.
Can you predict what happened next?
Yes, his tables were splitted between us (7 tables on ipoker and about 7 tables on ftp). By the way, there were 6 of us (Pauleadler, Himan33, Brazzmonkey, Uwe, Yanekk) and some people in reserve who were busy atm.
And 8superpoker helped us as well. Well i dont know if he hates Stickman or not (he probably does), but he joined his 100-200 table on stars at the right time.
Suddenly we all felt an urge to play stickman and we were generous enough to start from the big blind. Suprisingly he didn't play his A game at all. For example he decided to post his SB, and then time out and fold when playing against me. The same happened at most of the other tables. I was shocked, why did he post if he had no intention to play? I thought he is smart and this is kinda dumb. But who am I to judge him?
Somehow he managed to focus on a 1-2k hand vs Brazzmonkey but lost it.
So altogether he lost $15,797 which is about $2,632 for everyone.
Himan promised to donate his share to charity.
I guess it was a good lesson to remind him that we all should respect each other. To be honest i really appreciate the fact that almost every person in the high stakes limit community is very intelligent and friendly. A person who can give up some EV just to be nice and live in a friendly enviroment.
I once lost my connection in a $200 pot and valesco checked his q-high down. I had Ace-high and won the hand. Well i dont care about $200 and i'm sure he doesnt care about it too. But i really appreciate what he did. He couldn't even know that i saw it (somehow i managed to reconnect but wasn't able to to anything but watching due to some software glitch).
Well it would be great if we all could be more like valesco at the tables.
And the guys like stickman... They have money but money won't make you happy when you are hated by everyone.
And you will always be hated if you act like an arrogant selfish sneaky bastard.
PS. The good news is that Stickman agrreed to cooperate on Party from now on.