Good story here about Sorel Mizzi's experience in an Italian poker tournament. I can see why he went mad and went on a little rant. "The Italian poker community is very small and pretty much everyone knows everyone and it appears collusion and softplaying happens regularly in Italy. People seem to show each other their cards and everyone at my table looked like they knew each other and were friends. Despite all of this, I still think I'll play EPT San Remo. Playing poker in Italy kind of reminds me of playing poker on party poker a few years ago, the software sucked but you can't afford not playing because the players are so awful. On the whole, in Italy's case the players are awful - in comparison to Party having crappy software, you just have to deal with all the collusion and softplaying that constantly goes on." http://betting.betfair.com/poker/imp...rs-231108.html