Ethical Question in HU Tourney

bigred12 · #1 04-13-2007, 03:29 PM

Playing in a $200 HU SnG. Blinds are 20/40. Unknown villian has 600 in chips left and gets disconnected. What do you do? Wait or blind him out?

FoldALot. · #2 04-13-2007, 03:43 PM

If it's on Pokerstars, villain gets a [censored] of time to reconnect, so after that I am more than happy to blind him out.
Actually I think you should never worry about that in a HU tourney.

ChicagoRy · #3 04-13-2007, 03:45 PM

Blind him out, if he can't use 1/4 a buyin per month to get a good connection then someone else will take his money because he has bad bankroll/poker management.

If it's a freak occurrence then he's lost a buyin that he would've likely lost before. Plus you're losing money by him not being there, your hourly rate or whatever will technically drop.

Unless he's a friend or something, I wouldn't really wait. The only time I will wait is if somebody says "hold on gotta put kid to bed," or something, I'll use up like 15 secs of my timer after the initial wait period but after that it is fair game.

bigred12 · #4 04-13-2007, 03:53 PM

I ultimately did blind him out but felt dirty doing it. Oh well, up $200 for the day

maxv2 · #5 04-13-2007, 03:56 PM

they'd do the same to you, if someone disconnects you take them for all it'll give you

higHstaKesOwneR · #6 04-13-2007, 04:18 PM

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I ultimately did blind him out but felt dirty doing it. Oh well, up $200 for the day

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than you should also feel dirty when you take the money of poor compulsive gamblers...

take the money he would do the same

IncaHero · #7 04-13-2007, 04:18 PM

Your their to win money, ans as ChicagoRy say, if they can't put up some money for a descent internet connection, so be it.

I blind them down if it is not a friend or a regular that done the same thing to me.

Conspiracy · #8 04-13-2007, 04:51 PM

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If it's on Pokerstars, villain gets a [censored] of time to reconnect, so after that I am more than happy to blind him out.
Actually I think you should never worry about that in a HU tourney.

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KhalynYohrk · #9 04-13-2007, 05:56 PM

Maybe wait for 1-3 minutes then hit him up

ChicagoRy · #10 04-13-2007, 06:05 PM

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On stars you get like 30 seconds to act, then a 60 second timer then another 60 seconds of disconnect protection.

Not sure what the other sites offer, only other site I've played HUSNG is bodog and I haven't played enough to see a disconnect yet.