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July 27, 2004
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>Been thinking about the RM-AV3100 and didn't know it
>would help me toss out that silly X-10 remote. Now
>it is worth the $200! LOL.
Well that is what I read, I will let you know if it works. Also it only costs $100 or so online. Click the link I have to it.
>How are you hooking up to the TV to play poker?
Just through the DVI for my laptop and probably S-video for any other computers that connect.
>Good luck with your system, you wont want to go to the
>movies again! My 65" Sony and home theater is the best
>thing we have ever added to the house.
I already don’t go to movies anymore, just Netflix so I agree. So tired of people talking during movies.
>If you hook up to the TV, is the PIP one of those small
>windows, or 1/2 the screen?
It is split screen so each would take up half. You can resize the two windows if you want one to be larger.
>How would you play against each other, you can't hide
>your hole cards.. or are you talking about just
>playing at the same time?
>
>I know you guys kind of work as a team, but it's a bit
>unethical to look at each others cards if you were both
>at a final table together or something.
Party doesn’t let you sit at the same table in a tournament, except maybe final table (we have never both made it that far so we don’t know what will happen). Making final table is so rare that it could be many years before we ever both made it there. We once got down to just 2 tables left (at which point I went out) and have made it to the last 3-6 tables many times and have never been at the same one, so we are pretty sure that we will never be at the same table unless we make it to the final one. We have played so many tournaments and gotten so deep that you would think it almost certainly would have occurred by now if the software wasn’t designed to prevent it.
In the unlikely event that we do both make the top table we will just disconnect and play independently until one of us is eliminated. We only play in the $162 tournaments and up (maybe the occasional $109) so it wouldn’t do to have one of us win a large prize and Party take it away. We have always dreaded being at the final table together and one of us getting AA and the other KK or something but decided that if it happened one of us would just have to go broke. Still I think it is unlikely that we will ever be at a table together, since even on our best game we still have only a few percentage chance of making the top table in these 1000+ entry tournaments.
I suppose if we made it there and were still sharing information it would be unethical but I doubt it would ever be very helpful to us. Team playing is not really that useful in those situations. It is an unfair advantage over the rest of the players since it could make a difference in the outcome of the game but isn’t nearly as beneficial as most players might think. We ran a lot of SNGs together back in the day on Paradise and found out that it rarely influenced a decision.
Posted by themaroon at July 27, 2004 2:31 AM
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do you play from the same ip during tournaments?
you don't think sitting together at a final table and sharing information would be very useful?
Party should ban you from playing in the same tournaments just to prevent a situation where 2 of the final 10 are not only sitting in the same room but splitting 50/50 and thus have a strong interest in seeing the other survive.
Posted by: voice of reason at July 27, 2004 4:20 AM
You are obviously missing the point. We aren't ever at the final table together, and the odds of it happening are one in thousands. Also no, it wouldn't be that useful if we did share information there (which we wouldn't) which is something we know from experience a long time ago in Sit N Go tourneys on Paradise. Some day soon I will write my piece on why team playing is nowhere near as advantageous as people think it is, but until then I will leave it at that. Most people suffer from inflexible thinking and are unwilling to even consider that fact, but I have found it to be true.
Also I will have to block your comments if you continue faking email addresses from this domain.
Posted by: Matt at July 27, 2004 4:43 AM
do you play from the same ip? if not i don't see how/why party would intentionally separate you
you are saying you would feel comfortable playing at a $200 final table where the guy 2 on your left and the guy 2 on your right are working as a team and splitting results?
Posted by: voice of reason at July 27, 2004 7:03 AM
Once you transfer someone money on Party or play from the same IP address as them (even if not at the same table) Party associates the two accounts. You can then never sit at the same table, and we believe that Party intentionally seperates you in tournaments as well, since we otherwise would have to have been at the same table at some point by now.
And I am not saying I would like my opponents to be sharing cards, I am just saying it is not much of an edge. It is some edge but very small and certainly not worth risking being reported, discovered by Party's fraud team, and having your accounts frozen, which does happen on Party quite often. People have lost tens of thousands doing that and as such we would stop sharing information if we made the final table so that we could do nothing which could be reasonably construed as collusion.
Posted by: matt at July 28, 2004 1:59 AM