unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

during a recent sng I played, the following situation came up (approximately):



player1: 2000
player2: 2000
me: 7000
disconnected player: 1000


the blinds were 100/200 and I proceeded to push every hand and fold to the player when he was in the big blind. my reasoning is that this is optimal play if both player 1 and 2 are playing mainly to make the money (which I had observed prior to disconnection) and if the player who was disconnected was instead connected but for some reason folding every hand.

my questions are
a) would you consider this against the rules? (the poker site in question was pokerstars)
b) was this an unethical thing to do?

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

This is exactly how you should be playing with these stacks anyway. Nowt to do with the disconnected player.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

i do it every [censored] time.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

not at all unethical.
here
is an old post I made that shows how to really use a Dc'd player to your advantage.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

The concept is great, letting the disconnected player keep his 1000 stack is borderline retarded. Get him to 1BB, then you preserve the bubble.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

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The concept is great, letting the disconnected player keep his 1000 stack is borderline retarded. Get him to 1BB, then you preserve the bubble.

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well yeah, I should clarify . . . I only folded the to him when calling would be all in or another player had already entered the pot.


thanks for all the responses, they were basically the things I was thinking when I was playing.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

Poker... ethics? What? Other than not being an [censored] by delaying the actions (like tanking for minutes for every action or slowrolling), who cares about poker ethics? What is this, like "check raises are rude, don't do those".

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

This is not necessarily best -- if one of the other players picks up a hand when disc. player is in BB, they will shove and bubble will end. So leaving him with more than 1BB might be better -- maybe 3 BB's or so would be best.

Re: unethical to exploit disconnected player?
 

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The concept is great, letting the disconnected player keep his 1000 stack is borderline retarded. Get him to 1BB, then you preserve the bubble.

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WHAAAAAAAMP. Getting him to 1BB is borderline retarded. If he has 1 BB all somebody has to do is limp, then what? If the players are smart, one would limp every time disco is on BB forcing you to raise instead of fold (or call, either way disco loses BB and they make money). If they arent picking up on this, blind him down a little, make sure he has at least ~4 BBs i say, maybe even ~6 for now if the blinds are going up soon. Eventually theyre gonna wisen up id have to think and you want to preserve this edge as long as possible.

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The concept is great, letting the disconnected player keep his 1000 stack is borderline retarded. Get him to 1BB, then you preserve the bubble.

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WHAAAAAAAMP. Getting him to 1BB is borderline retarded. If he has 1 BB all somebody has to do is limp, then what? If the players are smart, one would limp every time disco is on BB forcing you to raise instead of fold (or call, either way disco loses BB and they make money). If they arent picking up on this, blind him down a little, make sure he has at least ~4 BBs i say, maybe even ~6 for now if the blinds are going up soon. Eventually theyre gonna wisen up id have to think and you want to preserve this edge as long as possible.

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First, they almost never think to limp.

Second, he can come back at any time and you want him to be as short as possible if/when he does.