[shaniac]

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This is very contradictory, and I think if you go with this kind of thinking it leads to straight-out collusion hardwired into the game. If two players have an agreement, tacit or explicit, to chop pots when they're headsup, any player who gets involved in a pot with them is gonna get screwed.

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Yeah but if 2 players want to collude they can easily do so and split the profits in the privacy of a hotel room later on - so I don't see how not allowing them to chop a pot would really make that much difference.

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it just lends the impression that softplaying is a standard and acceptable part of the game. Even if that's the case in some games, I hate that it's so obviously demonstrated on a tv show.