Watch the video here:
http://pokerati.com/2010/01/14/two-controversial-hands-from-the-pca/
I'd kick this team out of the tournament for such horribly unethical, unsportsmanlike conduct, if I were in charge of things.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Nastiest slowroll ever
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The commentators play this consultation up, but I'm missing important considerations here. E.g. if India and Germany were the two tall stacks at the table, and everyone else is short, and depending on the payouts, there might be a fold in there. Jeez, when I'm ninth in a tourney with 1000 people left, PokerStars loves to sit me across from the guy who is in eighth and deal out this exact situation. Of course, I always snap and number 8 flops that K in the window like it was his job. Congrats, Conan, you finished in 999th place, no money for you. There can be enough funky meta-EV considerations that some young kid might want to at least run the plan of calling off their stack by their teammates. I wouldn't be surprised if any good team coach drilled it into their heads to take a timeout before calling off no matter what. (Insert Germans just following orders joke here.) It's just hard to tell the whole story from this (typical) poorly produced poker TV clip.
The commentators play this consultation up, but I'm missing important considerations here. E.g. if India and Germany were the two tall stacks at the table, and everyone else is short, and depending on the payouts, there might be a fold in there. Jeez, when I'm ninth in a tourney with 1000 people left, PokerStars loves to sit me across from the guy who is in eighth and deal out this exact situation. Of course, I always snap and number 8 flops that K in the window like it was his job. Congrats, Conan, you finished in 999th place, no money for you. There can be enough funky meta-EV considerations that some young kid might want to at least run the plan of calling off their stack by their teammates. I wouldn't be surprised if any good team coach drilled it into their heads to take a timeout before calling off no matter what. (Insert Germans just following orders joke here.) It's just hard to tell the whole story from this (typical) poorly produced poker TV clip.
Agreed - there may be more to this than meets the eye. I don't know how the game was organized or what the teams' statuses were at that point - keep in mind that Suharto had Cornils covered, perhaps the conversation was only 5 seconds long ("I've got aces - I should call this, right?" "RIGHT!"), perhaps as Conan pointed out they had a policy of taking a TO before calling an AI shove that has them covered. You can't tell based on this small clip...
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