Re: Defense against the squeeze play...
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Since this was originally posted in B&M, OP might have wanted to know about his options talking to the Floor, etc (maybe get him to look at the hands one time to see if it is "shady")
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Yes, this is what I was aiming at. I don't know why this got moved to Medium Stakes as I'm not asking what hands I can play from BB; I'm asking about if I should suspect collusion. How does the floor ever gets involved in anything like this? And I guess, how long I should "take it" before blowing the whistle. Since I know poker by nature is aggressive, and they are two good players they could in fact be just playing their cards hard against each other, which I have no problem with. However, if their plan was to bet/3-bet me each time and at the end of the session chop up the big blinds I folded in the parking lot, that would not be kosher.
Obviously, I could quit (but in this case the other two players were so weak that I thought I could exploit them). But I'm really looking at the overall big picture as I'm sure I'll bump into them again. It's a small poker world here at $40/$80.
BTW, this did not occur at the Bike. This happened at a local casino in the Bay Area a couple of months ago.
And a side question would be: What are people's experience with collusion in live play in general and how was it handled?
Thanks,
Garland
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