A few months back I played Sklansky's "World Poker Tour All-In Holdem" when I was Vegas. It was a pretty fun game, and the players in the game were making amazingly bad plays. They were commonly folding (guaranteed -1 unit) when playing the hand would not only have been better than -1 unit, but even above 0 units. This got me to thinking: could I convince the guy next to me to let me go "all-in" on any suited or paired hand he was going to fold. (This of course is not optimal strategy, but if someone else payed the ante its +ev for every hand and in order to get the guy next to me to go along the deal has to be really easy.) Based on the frequency of folds with these hands I've seen this would turn the game to +ev overall even if I was playing the same stakes and not lower than the other guy (clearly this requires a player that is folding often enough). This doesn't change the inherent edge in the game for the casino; however it does decrease the hold for the casino since hands dealt to the guy sitting next to me will be played closer to optimal than if the guy was left to his own accord. My question is will the dealer/pit boss allow me to work out this kind of deal with my neighbor? If they will allow it is this kind of thing actively discouraged?
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11-08-2006, 05:04 PM
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