Live Play: Buddy Gives Buddy Cash To Reload

[SilentButDeadly3 0]

Soft playing a buddy is colluding. Just because you aren't squeezing someone else doesn't mean you aren't cheating. Playing a friend softer than anyone else at the table is cheating! Plain and simple!

You're one of those guys who has no friends right?I actually "got in trouble" for this when me and my friend were the only ones in the pot (he was MP and I was BB) and we checked it down. He actually hit a set on the river but we went check check the whole way. I had like middle pair (he rivered me that son of a ***** ). Some old dude at the table flipped **** because we soft played each other. I actually got called a whippersnapper which was interesting. He actually dropped the F bomb as well. It was quite out of line.They knew we were friends because we joined the table at the same time and came to the table talking and laughing together. And we would make jokes at one another at the table. It was the first pot we played HU together. We explained to the old fart that it was our money to do as we pleased and there is no rules to how you play a hand and it was cash. He demanded for the floor. The floor didnt do anything, obviously, and we only played 1 HU pot 2gether the next 8 hours and it was a similar situation (BB vs. limper folded around) and played it the exact same way.Our reasoning, us only being 18, we travelled 3 hrs to go play cards for a few days in a different state that is 18 to gamble. Why take each other's money?Now if this were a tourney, different story, but it's cash. The old guy was completely out of line because he wasn't losing money by what we were doing and we were actually just speeding the game along.

[quadaces 0]

You're one of those guys who has no friends right?I actually "got in trouble" for this when me and my friend were the only ones in the pot (he was MP and I was BB) and we checked it down. He actually hit a set on the river but we went check check the whole way. I had like middle pair (he rivered me that son of a ***** ). Some old dude at the table flipped **** because we soft played each other. I actually got called a whippersnapper which was interesting. He actually dropped the F bomb as well. It was quite out of line.They knew we were friends because we joined the table at the same time and came to the table talking and laughing together. And we would make jokes at one another at the table. It was the first pot we played HU together. We explained to the old fart that it was our money to do as we pleased and there is no rules to how you play a hand and it was cash. He demanded for the floor. The floor didnt do anything, obviously, and we only played 1 HU pot 2gether the next 8 hours and it was a similar situation (BB vs. limper folded around) and played it the exact same way.Our reasoning, us only being 18, we travelled 3 hrs to go play cards for a few days in a different state that is 18 to gamble. Why take each other's money?Now if this were a tourney, different story, but it's cash. The old guy was completely out of line because he wasn't losing money by what we were doing and we were actually just speeding the game along.

Because that is why you play poker. To take eachothers money. I've played with friends at the same table many times and have never checked it down just because it was the 2 of us. I have bluffed friends out of many HU pots and been bluffed out of pots by friends. You should have more integrity! If you feel you're too young to be playing hard against your friends at the table then don't play at the same table or just stop playing poker until you can play with respect to the other players at your table!

[finztotheleft 0]

It might make me pay more attention to the way they're playing, but the transaction itself is fine.

ditto

[finztotheleft 0]

You're one of those guys who has no friends right?I actually "got in trouble" for this when me and my friend were the only ones in the pot (he was MP and I was BB) and we checked it down. He actually hit a set on the river but we went check check the whole way. I had like middle pair (he rivered me that son of a ***** ). Some old dude at the table flipped **** because we soft played each other. I actually got called a whippersnapper which was interesting. He actually dropped the F bomb as well. It was quite out of line.They knew we were friends because we joined the table at the same time and came to the table talking and laughing together. And we would make jokes at one another at the table. It was the first pot we played HU together. We explained to the old fart that it was our money to do as we pleased and there is no rules to how you play a hand and it was cash. He demanded for the floor. The floor didnt do anything, obviously, and we only played 1 HU pot 2gether the next 8 hours and it was a similar situation (BB vs. limper folded around) and played it the exact same way.Our reasoning, us only being 18, we travelled 3 hrs to go play cards for a few days in a different state that is 18 to gamble. Why take each other's money?Now if this were a tourney, different story, but it's cash. The old guy was completely out of line because he wasn't losing money by what we were doing and we were actually just speeding the game along.

You know softplaying each other BY AGREEMENT is collusion, right ?

[Scanner313 0]

I try not to play at the same table as my friends when I go to a casino. Yes, you lose the commoradere, but what's the point of paying rake to the casino to take your buddies money? Stay home and play a friendly game if that's the case. When me and my buds go to a casino we intentionally ask to go to separate tables. Then we set a time to break (maybe 4 hours), get some dinner & drinks, then head back. The way time flys at the poker table, the 4 hour intervals isn't long at all. If we end up at the same table (cash game), we absolutely soft play each other. If it's just us left in a hand we will check it down. But if anyone else is still in the hand we will each play it to win.

[psujohn 0]

You're one of those guys who has no friends right?I actually "got in trouble" for this when me and my friend were the only ones in the pot (he was MP and I was BB) and we checked it down. He actually hit a set on the river but we went check check the whole way. I had like middle pair (he rivered me that son of a ***** ).

And that right there is why you don't softplay.

[No_Neck 0]

One of life's great pleasures is busting one of your friends, why would you softplay? Maybe I am just an ***.

[CBass1724 1]

One of life's great pleasures is busting one of your friends, why would you softplay? Maybe I am just an ***.

I don't know about you guys, but when my friends and I make a run up to AC or trip to Vegas and sit at the same table, we still play normally against each other. We play together at home and try to bust each other there, so what is the difference if it is in another state? I don't know, we just all love to play poker and improve our game no matter who it is against.Just like the other people are saying, just because you lend your buddy $100 does not mean you have a stake in his play. If I do that I know I will get my $100 back eventually. If my buddy loses it to me at the table, then that is his problem and he needs to improve his play.I know it comes across harsh in a way and I want to see my friends do well, but we all agree that we each want to win.

[ROGUE06 0]

You know softplaying each other BY AGREEMENT is collusion, right ?

What do casinos look for in collusion and what exactly do casinos do in result? Have you ever seen any action take place? Or complain or watch people complain due to players in collusion?

[Socrates 0]

A shared bankroll, what a concept. I bet that's never been done before. Also, two friends checking out a hand when no one else is in the hand is fine, even if they say they are going to do it (generally they'll just flip their cards up so everyone can see as a courtesy). People do this all the time. I've heard a complaint once in Vegas and the floor basically laughed at the player.

[SilentButDeadly3 0]

Oh, we played hands together. It's not like when one of us made a bet the other one folded. We chased on eachother when there were multiple people in the pot and whatnot. But in a HU pot where it's limp vs BB we just checked it down. Remember in about an 8 hour session this only happened twice.

[Pupsta 0]

Soft playing a buddy is colluding. Just because you aren't squeezing someone else doesn't mean you aren't cheating. Playing a friend softer than anyone else at the table is cheating! Plain and simple!

i guess you've never played at a local vegas casino then.many times playing o8 with the old people here, on the flop, they'll bet, player x calls, guy raises, other guy reraises, player x folds, other guy calls, they turn their hands up and check it down from there. blatant squeezeplay and collusion that happens ALL THE TIME between mostly old people that play against each other every day and 'aren't there to take each other's money' that is completely allowed by the dealers and floor people.

[stealfromblind 0]

you think thats annoying? one of the backroom games i play in(there are no legal card rooms in this state) let people play percentages of each other. so lets say bob and tom agree to 10% that means when one wins a pot he gives the other guy 10% of it. this gets really really sketchy when bob and tom are in a three way pot, and when bob and tom are heads up its a complete joke.