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S5 APAT English Online Championship 2011
jacklevel06:
--- Quote from: SirPercival on March 20, 2011, 15:59:20 PM ---
Congratulations to all medal winners last night.
If I was ever heads-up in an APAT event and my opponent disconnected I would always choose to sit out.
Except of course if it was Scouse - then I"d click that raise button as fast as I could. ;)
p.s. this did actually happened to me in Season 2or3 when we were 3 handed MickyP disconnected. After I spilt my beer laughing I slow played every hand as the other guy was still playing.
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Sick rub mr o
jacklevel06:
Steve, you handed out some grief on a guy on our table last night.Now i"ve known you ,drank with you since season 1.If i didnt know you , i might have just took your chips out of spite. As said before its against all the apat ethos ,but circumstances are different for everybody.
zzBlizzardzz:
This is a bit like blaming the Ref fir a bad call during a match IMO. Yes it was a bad call and yes it was wrong but the Ref is part of the game, good or bad. Everyone is saying it"s not the APAT way? IMO neither is whining about a loss. What this guy did was totally within the rules, if it wasn"t then Apat would have stepped in. I know Steve and would have loved him to win this. Let"s move on shall we, and let"s not be hypocrites. We"ve all taken advantage of this situation before. Unlucky Steve, but very well played.
AMRN:
--- Quote from: zzBlizzardzz on March 21, 2011, 06:24:57 AM ---
This is a bit like blaming the Ref fir a bad call during a match IMO. Yes it was a bad call and yes it was wrong but the Ref is part of the game, good or bad. Everyone is saying it"s not the APAT way? IMO neither is whining about a loss. What this guy did was totally within the rules, if it wasn"t then Apat would have stepped in. I know Steve and would have loved him to win this. Let"s move on shall we, and let"s not be hypocrites. We"ve all taken advantage of this situation before. Unlucky Steve, but very well played.
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This.
Connection issues are just a part and a risk of online poker, and we"ve all taken advantage at some point. There are a heck of a lot of other much worse thjings that happen in APAT tournies that are not in line with the "APAT ethos".
I like to think that in this situation, against Scouse, I would have sat out for a few mins...... BUT, how long is appropriate? 10 mins, 1 hour, 3 hours???? If he doesn"t return, at some point I"m gonna start playing again..... and given that it"s 2am and I"ve been playing for 6 hours and want to go to bed, it"s likely to be nearer 10 mins than 3 hours!
Also, would there be such uproar on this thread if this had happened to a random 888 player rather than a known APAT player as popular as Scouse? Would the "APAT ethos" be disputed then? I doubt it.
Jon MW:
To be fair, after the initial outburst most people do seem to be mainly concerned with the general principle rather than this specific incident.
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