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A sick conclusion to Tuesdays main!
a00rock
Member Posts: 832
As it goes heads up the player with nearly a 2 to 1 chip lead gets disconnected. 10 mins later he is blinded out and is potentially a grand out of pocket. We know this happens and the winner did nothing wrong but it is still sick.
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I would definiately be blind stealing also, unless I knew the player really well that is.
Would do the same myself and would expect no less from anyone else
If someone has disconnected it will give like 3 mins or so to allow them the chance to re-connect. If they still have not reconnected then it will jsut sit them out until they arrive back and the game will continue. In a HU situation they should actually increase this to 5-10 mins depending on buy in etc in my opinion as that's when the most money is up for play.
For cash game it works I think whereby a player will have like 1 disconnection protection every 3 hrs or so ( I might be wrong with the duration for cash)
This comes up every so often. I have very strong feelings on the matter. I have been in the spot of the connected person on three occasions on this site HU at the end of a MTT. Each time I gave them time to return and they did, one had repeated disconnections and I just sat out and waited each time. A thread was made on at least one of the occasions, maybe two but it was a while ago now. If anyone feels moved to search for them feel free, if not you'll just have to take my word for it.
All the times before when this sort of thread has come up I have said I do not condemn the people who hammer the bet button. That it is there choice and I can understand why they do that. In truth while I do understand it, I was merely holding my tongue. I utterly condemn it. It is base. It is classless. It is without honour. It is the wolf of cowardly greed dressed in the guise of 'That's poker, he would do it to me etc etc.'
I'm sure we will get the usual standard replies. That the other person would do the same to us. That we have bills to pay, pros have families to provide for, everyone is feeling the pinch right now and so on and so forth. I just have one question in reply to that.
Are we not better than that?
Someone has to blink first and trust first. If I was disconnected I would hope I would receive the same actions which I have given. It has happened to me, in the past the vast majority of times they have smashed the bet button (mainly on another huge site). Maybe I have this attitude because my father taught me the game and many games from a very old school angle. I don't know, maybe it's because I read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy when I was eleven. It doesn't matter. I just have hope in people that they can drag themselves above the pigswill of base greed. Now you may say that the whole point of the game is to win money from another and of course you will be right. It's a game based on wits and hoodwinking. However there is a strong code of honour at the very heart of it. All is fair in terms of deception 'on the field' but an act of cheating is seen as dishonourable and completely abhorrent. At least it was when I was taught the game.
Yes that all sounds utterly pompous I admit it. But that is how I feel. When it happens again I will allow the person a generous amount of leave to return while clicking the sat out button. And when it's the other way around and I get my blinds stolen away, my former position still will not change.
I used to feel exactly the same but i lost count of how many times it happened to me over the years only to reconnect and see all of my stack gone.
In all honesty that was on a site where i might only ever see the odd same face every few days because there were so many players on it and i can honestly say that if it were to happen on here v players i mostly see everyday i would take your approach to it (and would hope to get the same courtesy in return from players who new me.)
But v a new face and someone who i had never seen before i would give them the time for their first blind to reconnect then wait no more because thats exactly what i would expect if the tables were turned.
Your right though mate the whole thing leaves a bitter taste no matter what and its just one of those things all online players have to deal with one way or another over time.
I might just have fallen in love with TommyD.
Tommy - are you spoken for?
You & me, how about it? We could have babies, & everything.
I 2nd Tommy’s comments here, playing many hu, when in need of toilet break, I would say a need loo break, most of time players do sit out until I say I am back, this is not always the case though 9as i would and do if player needed loo break), if a player sits out for more than 5mins, then I do hit bet button, I allow 5mins for a player to sit back on table, as I feel this is enough time to re-boot modem/computer.
With a lot of different internet provider's out there, there will always be problems when running deep in a long mtt; I found this out myself when playing last night, after being disconnected for 35mins. (Internet provider's provide NO help with this too lol)
With many of us relying on the wonders of the internet, this issue will always be there for all of us at some point, how you want to play it tho is down to individual players.
Gl all at the tables.
Very impressed by the guys who said they would wait until the other player is back, extremely noble! Kind of restores my faith in humanity somewhat :-) Would be curious to ask those players what their bankroll is though, would winning say a MTT make a massive difference to your bankroll?