English Poker Open/GUKPT London

[smashedagain]

Actionjack  in the form of his life and good to see.

[The Camel]

I said I wasn't going to show my cards to the cameras, and that was it.

They wittered something about t and c's.

I refused point blank.

If they had threatened to throw me out of the tournament, I would have relented, but I think my blog would have restarted asap.

I already thought of the title. "Fucked at the Fox"

How can a live stream be more important than the integrity of the tournament it is showing?

Ridiculous advantage that those who had an iphone / ipad had over those without.

Only solutions would be the one which DTD imposed of removing phones/iphones from all players (nott ideal obviously) or to show the stream on one the plasma tvs. Again not ideal, as it gives a small edge to the players not on the feature table.

Dunno why the live stream shows hole cards anyway? EPT do pretty well without them.

[TL900]

the EPT has good commentators

[The Camel]

Funnily enough I made a play on the live table which I have made only 3 times before in tournaments.

It needs pretty precise conditions to run it, which were fulfilled today.

It has worked every time I've tried it and worked agian today.

Certainly wouldn't want people seeing it as I've not seen anyone else try it.

[TightEnd]

the EPT has good commentators

Having done both, far prefer comms with no hole cards. Talking ranges, types of plays it might be, player images is purer I think, so easy to talk hindsight poker if you have hole cards/perfect information obviously!

and funnily enough makes comms when you know the hole cards harder, I have found (perversely).

[The Camel]

According to someone I follow on twitter - who is a very bright guy -  he was convinced there was no irony in what Sam said in his post bust out interview.


@peterjbirks

That was my first thought.But when he spoke on the EPO, it seemed a genuine "I backed him, I don't want to knock him out" line.

[Dubai]

Does he play poker? If u dont want to knock someone out then u just tell them beforehand you will only raise them when you have the nuts. You wouldnt say il flat when ive got it. Way way too complicated cos u then have to flat all playable stuff to make it look realistic.

[The Camel]

Does he play poker? If u dont want to knock someone out then u just tell them beforehand you will only raise them when you have the nuts. You wouldnt say il flat when ive got it. Way way too complicated cos u then have to flat all playable stuff to make it look realistic.

Yes, he plays alot.

I haven't seen the clip, so I can't really comment. But Pete is a journalist and a poker player.

I understand totally what you are saying and the easiest way to collude would be just to fold the aces or shove allin.

Pete is a pretty sound judge though.

[Dubai]

But what im saying is correct so therefore he is wrong. Noone on earth colludes by flatting Aces pre, it causes unneccesary dilemnas postflop, its easier to make a big fold pre from the horse and explain rather than fold Aces post when ur Sam

[pleno1]

Yehut if they are on tv and sly folds like 10s or aq people will even start talking about collusion. I he has jj-kk then it's just orally obvious. He is raising from utg it's not like bvb or something, some people, especially players who massively believe in balance like I think trickett probably is never 3bet a utg anyway so flatting doesn't look that suspicious from me.

[JK]

Totally agree with the Shallow. He defo just raises pre as its so much simpler if hes colluding

[The Camel]

Totally agree with the Shallow. He defo just raises pre as its so much simpler if hes colluding

Fair enough.

Still a stupid thing to tweet/say in an interview.

[h]

so say a miracle happens and i make a final table at DTD which is live streamed and i refuse to show my cards... what punnishment could be levelled against me given that i havent signed a release or waiver

think  the techology at dtd is reading the cards (chipped deck)    is that right ?
in which case you have no choice but to show  

[The Camel]

From 2+2

 Re: Trickett collusion tweet?
Uhhh... A few weeks ago, Neil Channing flatly stated on the 2+2 Pokercast that Trickett colluded and multiaccounted while at the Pokerfarm. Not the biggest deal in the world, but its clear that Trickett has a loose sense of poker ethics.


Is this true?

Did Neil say this?

[JK]

Totally agree with the Shallow. He defo just raises pre as its so much simpler if hes colluding

Fair enough.

Still a stupid thing to tweet/say in an interview.

Now that I dont disagree with at all! From somebody who should know better as well