how to address live collusion?

[temp0r]

i've been meaning to post this topic for a while now. it's been buggin' me if i should have done something..

was at a tournament on the final table around a fortnight ago now. down to the last 5 players. majority of the action is preflop now. i don't know any of the players left personally. but two of them seem to know each other. they were both young lads and pretty solid. both capable of making a move but had played solid final tables. anyway the two players sitting between them had both exited the final table earlyish and since then both players were involved in alot of pots with each other where it would even out their stacks.
i don't know if i was just paranoid of the fact no one else was becoming as short stacked as me at the time or what but i was suspicious. i didn't do anything though. i mean.. no-one else did. i felt as though i couldnt without someone else feeling the same. and who knows if anyone else did?
i now wonder if i should have. after all it was those two who ended up playing heads up. and i exited in fifth gettin my A7 cracked by one's K10. the two other guys soon fell after me as the blinds took a steep increase.

what should i have done in hindsight to attempt to tackle any chip swapping? isn't calling the floor abit dramatic?

[Swordpoker]

Could easily be coincidence. Perhaps the best idea would be to say something to let them know what you have noticed.


Maybe: "You guys are quite good friends, aren't you?" just after they have played a 'friendly' pot together. If they are innocent, you can pass it off as a joke. If they are guilty, at least they will know you suspect something and might stop their collusion.

[TightPaulFolds]

Best you can hope for is to catch them raising and reraising others off pots together, and soft playing each other when heads up at a stretch, otherwise there's nothing to show. If they're solid players they'll be aware that you're aware of what they could be doing.

[Dingdell]

At Luton recently at a final table with three players left, man 3 gets knocked out and congratulates the other two on a good team game - red faces all round - great line though.