In an online 45 man, like this was, its pretty much whatever, and we just move on and play the next one Thats very difficult to do anything about, and its also much more of an issue in high stakes live tournaments, where many players know each other personally or have bought pieces of each others action. So in MTTs, the collusion, which might happen, is mostly softplay, that was not arranged in advance. That was literally a gift, so in the long run these things will level out, and I certainly would never dream of reporting something like this to security.įinally if someone really wants to collude in an organized way, they would probably choose to play either cash games or STTs, since in MTTs they cant be sure to end up at the same table. Yesterday someone, who I dont know at all, gave me a walk, when I had 3 blinds left. These kind of mistakes certainly happen without it being collusion. Or he failed to pay attention to stack sizes. Maybe he just had junky hands, and then he did not know, he was supposed to jam any two blind vs. Also to establish a case for collusion you need way more than just two hands, where a big stacks decided to fold against a short stack. I have probably played a million hands on the site now, and I have seen very few cases, where I felt, something looked really fishy. I agree, that PokerStars does a great job of cracking down on collusion. Was this as a case of obvious collusion, or is it actually good strategy to give the short stack a walk, when you have around half the chips on the final table? But I am interested to hear, what other forum members think. That seemed unlikely however, since his HUD-stats were very solid indicating, he is some kind of regular. Its also possible, that the chip leader just had no clue about short stacked push/fold strategy on the final table.

Chip leader and short stack had the same nationality, so it could be possible, that they were buddies, or maybe he just felt sympaty for a country fellow in danger of busting next. Next hand middling stacks fold and chipleader then gives short stack, who is now in big blind with a 5BB stack, a walk.Īt the moment this made me a little angry, because to me it seemed like an obvious case of collusion, where the chip leader was trying to help the short stack to outlast the other two players at the table. Short stack open jam from CO, middling stacks fold, and chipleader decides to not defend his big blind getting better than two to one, since there is an ante. 4 players were left, in the money already but obviously payjumps at play. This incidence happened yesterday on the final table of a MTT SnG on pokerstars.

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