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SteppeON · Guest

How can a table with 2 players that are a couple play on a limit table ($2-$5) and they both play every hand (basically see every flop) and seem to win about 85% of the time. It made the table very uneasy about this couple and would out draw a stong hand about all the time and started getting the other players really upset about the game and leave. This has happened 2 weeks in a row and the dealers and table owners haven't done anything about it. I told them I won't play at the table when they are around. Have any one else ran into this type of team playing... If so how did you deal with them.

Piney1000 · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:08 am Post subject:

ok email support and give hand histories to them. Thats all you can do and stay away when they play

Strasse · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

Judging by the fact that he mentioned dealers and table owners, I'd venture to guess he's talking about live play. Best advice I can offer is just to play at another table.

byamamoto1 · Bay Area Bidness Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 2189

i've encountered this a few times. fact of the matter it is hard to prove in a live game that they are colluding and not much will be done to prevent this, really. at a local card club, there were three guys sitting at the table, who would cap the betting every street, then fold to one bet on the river, and inevitably that guy would have the winning hand. it was obvious they were playing together but i was able to turn that to my advantage. i'd limp with premium hands and they would cap the betting for me. i would never lead out with my made hands and every street was capped because of their "strategy", and i was able to maximize my profits from that. you just have to make up your mind as to if you're willing to play at the table and adjust your game or just simply get up and leave.

Gypsydc · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Limit Hold'Em w/Team Players

Hubba_Rocks · Straight Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 101

If I'm at live cardroom aand am sitting with a friend at the same table, we don't have any strategy, we just don't get mixed up in hands heads up. I remember in 3 days, maybe 18 hours at the same table, only one hand did we go heads up, and that was when I had quad aces and he had aces over queens. Even then we kept the pot at like $50. If we wanted to take each others money we could have stayed at home.

hubert123 · High Card Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

last card player mag..pro won 83000 tournment //had 2 other conputers//got caught /had to give it back//////////lotsa players on other phone withbuddies in same game/////poker boss says they can catch them

mistaken69 · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: Re:

CrazyJoeDavola · Straight Flush Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 393

Yep, me & a friend agreed to slit each others' throat if it comes down to it, poker's a bloody game. Besides, if they're a true friend you can laugh about it over a few brews Smile

Especially in a tournament setting.

Cobra69 · Flush Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 146

was this couple doing anything like passing signals or reraising each other to push other hands out when they held nothing? IMO if you play alot of live play at some point in time you're going to play with people you know or run into tables were people know each other fairly well, especially if you play at a small card room with regular players. My advice, if you honestly think they're coluding, then take it up with the cardroom manager, if it's driving people away from the game I'm sure he'll do something eventually. If they're just 2 people who want to sit at the same table then they aren't doing anything wrong then your observation that they seem to win alot of hands is pure coincidence.

AmplifiedSAE · Two Pair Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 67

I was in a B & M game once when two players who obviously knew each other (arrived together) sat down @ my table. For some reason I immediately got a feeling that they were up to something or could possibly be exchanging information. At first, I thought I was just paranoid. However, a hand came up where one of them looked @ his hole cards cards, tapped his fingers twice quickly on his cards, and looked @ his friend out of the corner of his eye. No one seemed to notice this except me since low-limit games have players that don't observe much of the game.

Anyways, I looked @ the guy who tapped his fingers for about a minute straight and I could tell through his body language that he knew that I was on to him. After that, no such signals happened again and the two ended up leaving after about 2 more rotations.

So, I my advice would be to straight up call people out. If you legitmately believe some sort of cheating to be going on, be blunt about it. I was non-verbal in dealing w/ those cheaters, but I wouldn't have been afraid to get vocal if it continued.

Gothalay · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject:

Brunson, Slim, Binnion and Pugnose (and a few others) ran this scam for years.
They didn't get run out of Texas for winning they were run out for getting caught cheating.

OldBitByter · Guest

Our local club had a couple come in trying that. The only problem they had was they got their signals crossed, one of them was drinking. After two different nights, the manager just put told them they had to sit at seperate tables. They never came back.

deadmoney314 · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: Re:

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