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Originally Posted by dajebriza What are your feelings on players at your games that are couples? If all players at the table are individual unrelated players and 2 players who want to come to the game are married, is it fair for to the rest of the players to allow couples to play?
I only ask because if the game has a cash payout, it seems to me like those two married individuals are in reality splitting the pot, increasing their chances of winning a payout over evetyone else.
It seems the same to me as if two unrelated players met before the game and agreed to split all winnings.
Am I way off-base on this or does this issue ever come up? What are your feelings on it? I want to be fair to the players in my home game, so I thought I would ask. |
Just so that we are clear, altering your play to favour another player (playing soft) is a form of collusion, and collusion is cheating.
So, how do you stop people colluding? You tell them up front that they are not allowed to collude in any way, and then, if you feel that they have ignored the warning, you exclude them.
easier said than done, I know, but I think that you have to give people the benefit of doubt that they won't cheat, rather than assuming that they will.
