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An amazing HU match
Wow that has to be the greatest heads up match ever between flashflush and mckean, did anyone else see it? I thought flashflush was a lil to aggresive tho 
haha wp charles and ul to mckean
haha wp charles and ul to mckean
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Do you try and let them come back, or wade in and steal the blinds and the tournament?
Personally, I try and give them every chance to return - at least 5 mins. I play slowly and hope for a decent game.
In the end, you have to just steal to finish the game.
Real shame, especially when it is the chip leader that disconnects.
Definatly not the way I wanted to win that!! For those that didn't see it we got to the final 3 of the main event the guy started going all in every hand, then it hit 12pm and he suddenly disconnected.... I managed to take out the other player leaving us HU... for the 1st 6 or 7 blinds or so i let the timer run down b4 taking the blinds to give time to reconnect but no sign of it. So after abou 10 people on the rail telling me to stop messing around and just take the blinds I did....
Not the way I wanted to win like I said, but would you all of done the same? I'm sure he wasn't coming back and couldn't sit there for ever
Having been on the wrong end of this more than once, i know how bad it feels to lose an mtt having disconnected HU, I have also disconnected HU in this situation and the opponant waited for me, and this was a really gentlemanly thing to do!
So personally, i will ALWAYS wait at the very least for five minutes for them to try to reconnect like Eyeman said...
In this instance i agree that the rail (apart from me) encouraged you to steal the blinds and i find this very dissapointing!
Well done on your win, and no hard feelings
hoggers
Could you check a PM I just sent you please, I know you dont check them that often and this is quite important :-)
Cheers
A key part of online poker is maintaining a good connection, it's part of the game, if you can't stay connected you're going to lose, it's as simple as that. Your opponent would undoubtedly have taken your blinds if you were the unfortunate one to be disconnected.
I've won and lost due to connection issues, it's not how anybody likes to win a game, but poker is a dog-eat-dog situation, there's no room for charity or mercy, you are there to win.
All I care about is maximising my winnings and if that means raising someone out of the game who hasnt got a good connection, I would do it every single time.
100% i steal the blinds, you play poker to win money. Its unlucky for your oppenent to dissconnect but anyone with half a brain steals the blinds n1 flash
I check them every day, several times, in case urgent stuff is in there. I'm just a bit behind this week, due to some outside pressures, but yours has jumped to the top of the queue.
Delighted for you last night, very well done, & unlucky to McKeano, who appeared to get disco'd right at the sharp end. A little unfortunate, but them's the breaks.
IIRC correctly when you disconnected you had 210k and Flash has 170k.
I think Flashflush did nothing wrong as both your stacks were so small compared with the blinds, if you had 30bb left there could be a arguement to fold for 10 minutes.
Well done to sky though for introducing a good blind structure which should hopefully lead to more very good players winning the main events..well done Flash.
I would say Flash got it about right - let the timer go down a few times. Give the other side a chance to reconnect. Once they fail to make it, you've got to end the game and forget about it.
After 5 mins, it's steal all the way.