Re: Was Hachem being unethical?
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I care because I don't think that's poker and I came there to play poker.
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I didn't read all of the exhaustive analysis in this thread, but I agree with the basic tenor of your point.
I detest when people start yammering on about their hands or the situation that their opponents are finding themselves in, and that's because it's often hard to figure out what's going on, whether the players involved know each other, and/or if the conversation is an effort to induce a non-self-interested outcome or just some random, benal chatter.
Andrew Black's coffeehousing with Neverwin during the WSOP while there was a third player involved in the hand (who happened to have been holding the winner and might have actually played the hand further if Black didn't start blabbing) was a prime example of how a Buddhist douchebag could possibly influence the outcome of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tournament equity.
I'm beginning to think a "no coffeehousing during the hand" policy is the best way to regulate this vague area of poker ethics.
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