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  1. AJyowler AJyowler is offline

    Austin, TX
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    Feb 10th, 2011 (2/10/2011 5:44am)

    was playing on stars the other day in a tourney when they had server issues and thousands of people became disconnected.. I could see the action at my table and 2 people verbally agreed to alternating raising pots so they could share the blinds of the disconnected players... told them to review the chat and see the hand history and this is their response (cut out the pertinent part of a long email)....

    When reviewing tournament play for possible collusion we check for the following:

    1) Best hand playing - where colluding players play only the better of their two hands.

    2) Soft playing - where colluding players refuse to play aggressively against each other. For example they may check or fold against each other where they would normally bet or raise against a stranger.

    3) Chip dumping/Stack balancing - where the large stack folds to the small stack to balance their chips. The idea is to improve the chances of both players finishing in money positions in a tournament.

    We found no evidence of any of this suspicious play.

    In regards to your report about these two players splitting the blinds of the disconnected players, we agree this is inappropriate an found their comments to have violated pokerstars tournament rules, listed on our website:

    How does the last sentence not equal soft playing?

    their punishment? an email with verbal warning while accumulating about 50 bbs...
  2. Cabo Cabo is offline

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    Feb 10th, 2011 (2/10/2011 5:54am) in reply to AJyowler

    Both.
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