Ethics question - Page 2

microbet · #11 02-02-2007, 04:54 AM

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a) this would never happen live because casinos let 3-handed action all of once a year.

b) if it were to happen...playing musical chairs and posting extra blinds = -EV

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b) But what if my seat is unlucky? Just ask for a new setup?

xorbie · #12 02-02-2007, 08:04 AM

this just happened to me today (at a 15/30 table so you might be talking about me). generally when i sit down, i try to sit down to the left of certain players. why should i get that right? i didn't mind at the time when the guy did it.

fsuplayer · #13 02-02-2007, 11:06 AM

i dont switch seats 4 handed or less, unless one of the players is a dbag and has done it lots to me in the past, which some have. in that case i have no problems switching seats on him.

but as a rule, i think its pretty ghey.

Tommy Angelo · #14 02-02-2007, 11:30 AM

I know you're talking about online. I can tell you how many card rooms handle it at mid and high stakes, just so's you know.

Five players or more, anyone can change seats. Four players or less, anyone can change seats unless one or more players object to the change, in which case the guy who wanted to move can't move. I've been in dozens of games that broke up when something like this happens: a guy who didn't know the rule went to make an innocent seat change, someone objected just because he can, and the mover just moved on out the door.

I've also been in dozens of four-handed games when my opponents were two rocks and a live one, and this happens: Let's say that when it's six handed, the live one is three to my left. Then the player on my left quits. After that, the player on my left quits. Now it's fourhanded and the live one is suddenly on my immediate left. This will not do. At that point, let's say I decide I would rather not play at all than play in this arrangement, so I change seats, and if anyone objects, I either leave without objection, which I'm totally fine and happy with, or I start to leave and they say never mind, come back, sit where you like. It's easy to get what you want. All you have to do is never do anything you don't want to.

I do not see any ethical aspect to this issue. Online, if the software allows you to quit and come right back in a different seat, then it is legal and ethical. At a casino, house-policy likewise determines what is "right" and "wrong."

Tommy