An Ethical Question

[lucid75]

On bubbles that begin early (40/80-60/120), where you have the chip lead, is it unethical to take the full time allotted to force the blinds to go up faster?

[vers]

my friend does it all the time. I think it's fine. Just say that you're 12 tabling.

[Toxicaveng79]

I dont know if I agree that if you're the chipleader and the blinds are big, you are guaranteed to cash.

[vers]

You have a better opportunity to accumulate more chips at higher blinds as opposed to when it's 50/100 or w00tever.

[Slim Pickens]

I don't get why you'd think this was a winning strategy if you're attempting to play poker for a profit, mathematically speaking.

[DevinLake]

No just tell everyone at the table that you suck, and want to play as few hands as possible against them so they cannot exert their edge on you.

<font color="white">If you look at the above from the reverse perspective, I think you'll see why your idea is dumb regardless of the ethics behind it. </font>

[BradleyT]

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I don't get why you'd think this was a winning strategy if you're attempting to play poker for a profit, mathematically speaking.

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How about when you're big stack it would be ideal for blinds to be so high that everyone blinds out in their current position.

[Slim Pickens]

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I don't get why you'd think this was a winning strategy if you're attempting to play poker for a profit, mathematically speaking.

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How about when you're big stack it would be ideal for blinds to be so high that everyone blinds out in their current position.

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Why would it be -$EV to play hands though? Even if you autofold every hand, other people playing hands is +$EV for you. You gain prize pool equity if they bust and you get the aforementioned +$EV bubble spots anyway if they don't. The only way to [censored] that up is to stall.

I don't think it's unethical but I'm with slim it doesn't necessarily seem +EV to me. And tbh I wouldn't do it.

Look at it this way.

If we do this 2 thing occur:

1. Less hands with
2. A higher EV for HERO. (supposedly)

vs.

1. More hands
2. With a slightly lower yet still positve +EV.

If your a winning player I don't see why you would ever do this. Essentially in terms of the maths it's quite similiar to the multitabling vs ROI debate.

I like to let my opponents make mistakes and that is where the profit comes from these. Let them have a chance to make them.

[DevinLake]

These are our options:

small blinds/large blinds

don't play / play
play / play

Assuming ur better than your opponents how can "don't play + play" &gt; "play + play"? For that to happen the EV of playing in the small blinds would have to be negative. If this is the case, move down.