Re: grinders method
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i assure you i'm a nice caring guy in real life..
when i'm playing poker everyone on that table is my enemy
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How nice & caring you are is irrelevant. When I'm at the poker table, everyone is my "enemy" too. I am doing everything I can to take every dime the have in front of them, and not let them get any of my money.
But if you think that poker being a competition gives you the right to behave in unethical ways, then you are a bad person.
Let's try an example. You are on a soccer team. Your team is good. Real good. Good enough in fact that you've made it to the finals. So there you are at the World Cup finals playing against your arch-nemisis. Unfortunately, your opposition is much better than you, and you know that there is no way you can fairly win this match unless you get very lucky. So to remedy this problem, they day before the match you poison the food of some of the other team's key players. You don't kill them. You just incapacitate them for one day, after which they will fully recover. They are forced to sit thier key players and sub-in 2nd stringers, which gives you a fighing chance in the match.
Was your behavior ethical? Regardless of the answer to the first question, was your behavior accpetable?
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I'm not sure this is the best analogy to use since the topic in question is pretty subjective whereas the soccer analogy is just out and out cheating/illegal.
That aside I also don't really have a problem with people who want to do this. I don't myself because I consider it severely -EV and will come and go from tables based on whether I wish to be playing and whether I think I have an edge.
If someone else isn't comfortable playing for 200BB+ I don't see why they should be forced to move tables just to play with a normal stack. And if they wish to lock up their win then good for them, someone else will take their seat and I'll play against them.
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