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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6768604, member: 397965"] While I understand the desire of this tournament director to "make an example" I think, he picked a bad spot to do it. It should be obvious, that we are not allowed to say something during a hand, in which we are not participating, which can benefit or harm a player in the hand. For instance its definitely a big no-no to say something like "I would have made a flush", when there are 3 cards to a flush on the board, and someone is considering to call a bet from their opponent. As Mike Matusow did a few years ago in a cash game. And its also a big no-no to give advice to a player like for instance saying "this guy always has it, when he bet full pot", since it violate the "1 player per hand" principle. But the problem here is the interpretation of, what can actually "influence action". I recently watched some of the 2016 WSOP main event footage, where there was a lot of controversy about Will Kassouf and his table talk. For instance there was a hand, where he was given an orbit penalty for talking, when the action was on his opponent Stacy Matuson. And clearly he was being a bit of an ass to her. But the issue is, that when you watch all the footage, both he and other players like Alec Keating were doing this all the time. So as one of the commentators even said "Wills table talk is ok, until they suddenly tell him, its not?" And how does it "influence action", that Will say something like "I want you to call", "it will be embassaring to bust on camera" and so on and so forth? As Will say during the hand, the action is on her, and she just need to get on with it, whatever her opponent say. For me this is ridiculous and takes a lot of the fun out of live poker. Of course there is an etiquette issue here also, where its polite to not disturb someone, when they have a big decision to make. But turning it into a rule, where you basically are not allowed to talk, is ridiculous in my opinion. Then we might as well drop live poker all together and only play online. [MEDIA=youtube]THA5LjEyW9U[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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