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Originally Posted by Codecci
You guys are surprised? I mean, it's fun to read about specific group, who are in it etc, but i'm certain almost EVERYONE at the top or close to it does it to some extent.
Meh, not really, it happens and wcg's group isn't the only one but for example both me and jungle are not in any groups and there's very few people willing to play him and even less so for me.
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What reason do they have not to sweat?
Sweating takes time lol?
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Pretty much everyone at the top is insanely greedy, and actual ethics is very rare thing in tough current poker climate (ethics was possibly quite common few years ago when money was still easy though). Ofcourse everyone tries to show that they are super ethical person, but behind closed doors greed >>> ethics.
This is so far of the mark it's not even funny. Sure they are some scumbags, but in general the high stakes poker world consists of stand up guys who are super-ethical. Eg I recently xbooked my game with a russian pro who I have never met, will never meet, have no friends in common with, who is in a different jurisdiction. I asked someone who can only be described as a mutual online acquaintance at best, someone from another country again who I've met exactly one, if he could be trusted, and he said yes, so I did it.
The Russian ofcourse promptly paid the 30k he owed me after the match (and more to others).
This is the standard turn of events, the vast majority of the time it goes like this, to the point where we don't even think about this. Hell, that we discuss when it goes wrong is a sign of how rarely it happens, if it were commonplace nobody would xbook with random internet dudes for large amounts to begin with.
That something like this can happen between people who have absolutely no ties to each other is frankly baffling and a testament to how most people in the high stakes world are stand up dudes who are constantly in the temptation to cheat for large financial gains yet never do.
Fun fact: I recently did a 37k flip on an Anon 50/100 table vs I have no idea who, some fish. After a couple of smaller flips where we both always got it in with whatever we had that got us that deep, I called all-in for 37k with 75o. True to his word, he had also jammed the crap he had. That this can happen, on an ANON TABLE, is a testament to how great the online poker world is relative to the temptation. Most people playing high stakes online are stand up guys.
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If 2 people live close to each other, or even together, and would greatly benefit from sweating each other, it's insane to think that there isn't very high chance they don't do it from time to time. Do you think that these two French guys didn't do it who cleaned Gus for $15M? These Aussie guys probably do it aswell unless one of them is a bum and doesn't want to spend time coaching for free, but they probably get raped vs even lowest level 'empire' members.
Sure it probably happens sometimes as a way of coaching, that might be unethical, w/e. I don't think there's anything consistent about it though, I think the vast majority of the time people play solo. You really think doug or donger don't have anything better to do than sweating their horse playing 10/20 all the time?