Coaching via AIM -- is this legal?
 

A friend of mine has asked me to help him learn how to play SnG's. Is it legal to observe his table and give him advice via AIM? Ethical?

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ppl do it...

Re: Coaching via AIM -- is this legal?
 

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A friend of mine has asked me to help him learn how to play SnG's. Is it legal to observe his table and give him advice via AIM? Ethical?

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no and no but people do it all the time.

Re: Coaching via AIM -- is this legal?
 

Legal meaning within the T&Cs of a site? I doubt it. If you want to stay on the ethical side, discuss the hand after it takes place, not during. But as others said, people do it.

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have him print out the hand histories for you to go over at a later tim e so you can make notes for him. But it is not proper IMHO to help during a sitngo.

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I don't see what's wrong with it (ethically) so long as the person you're chatting with is not on the same table.

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Is one player to a hand a rule on most sites? I know in a B&M this would be totally unacceptable, but I was thinking (going by memoery so I mgiht be completely wrong) that Poker Stars was on record as not ahving one player to a ahnd since it was unenforcable anyway.

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I don't see what's wrong with it (ethically) so long as the person you're chatting with is not on the same table.

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It's not acceptable to get advice during a hand in live play so why would it be okay online?

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I don't see what's wrong with it (ethically) so long as the person you're chatting with is not on the same table.

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It's not acceptable to get advice during a hand in live play so why would it be okay online?

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It's also not acceptable to play live wearing just your underwear.

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It's also acceptable to have your wife rooting you on during a poker tourney, but it's not acceptable to hire a skanky hooker to sit in the crowd and root you on.

Go figure.