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[keith crime]

I was watching my pal play in a free roll just now and we were chatting on fibs and he was telling me what he had - when I came up with just a brilliant idea for a prank.With all the flame wars and panic over online cheating what if i in a free roll with 1600 people left on stars were to start telling everyone what my buddy had. We're not cheating we're actually helping all the other players beat us? I'd bet my life people would be suspicious and start freaking out with weird conspiracy theories about how that is collusion and evil. I wonder if they could possibly throw me off stars for doing it. Would we technically be doing anything wrong? I don't think it would overly damage the online poker world and i bet it would lead to some funny forum posts.

[smurdogg]

They'd block your chat. Dont do it, i talked about the hand before, but i was lying about the hand before and actually told them my trash hand that i currently had, so partypoker killed my tourney. $50+5 buy in, i had 8500 chips with 180 of 750 players left. Let me tell you, i was pissed.

[keith crime]

That doesnt seem like cheating it seems like gamesmanship

[opie]

It can give an unfair advantage to one of your opponents over another.Say you have QQ and announce it, but you have 2 opponents, one holding AK and one with AQ. An Ace hits on the flop and your fold your queens to heavy betting. The AQ now is much more likely to fold knowing he is missing 2 cards that could make his hand. In this case you would have just influenced he decision of players A against player B when you were actually no longer involved in a hand.There are tons of examples. Say the flop comes 444 and someone who folded gets really pissed and yells "I can't believe I folded the 4th 4." That person is no longer involved in the hand, but now AA knows he has the nuts and no longer has to worry about the last 4.It's just bad form to talk about your cards before the hand is over - do don't know how the rest of the hand may play out.Peace,Opie