my wife is taking up poker

[GeoffM]

I was unaware that Party had freerolls like that.

Question out of curiosity. If you and your wife play, not to suggest you in particular would, but what would stop someone from buying a laptop and the 2 of you playing the same table side-by-side? This was something I was thinking about the other day, while it wouldn't do much in a ring game, it certainely would allow for some chip dumps in tourney play.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Nothing really. Some sites don't allow two connections from the same ISP, so that would mean only one could play at that site at a time (without getting two DSL lines....etc). Even if a husband / wife pair is at the same table in a single, or if is two random friends, either COULD collude. They key is are they colluding, not that they are related.

If you would fold the nuts on the river because you know it would knock your wife out of the tourney and you won't get any that night, then you shouldn't be playing at the same table. You should not be sharing cards (obviously) any more that two people COULD over instant messaging or the phone.

Not sure what book it was in, but the saying when you sit at the table, it doesn't matter who is sitting across the table (random stranger, or beloved grama) your goal is still to take there money, seems to apply here.

Should Annie Duke and Howard Lederer not be allowed to play at the WSOP TOC this year just because they are related??

[GeoffM]

I understand what you are saying and all, but there would be little to no way for any online site to detect this sort of behaviour if you were smart about it, not being a complete idiot.

Getting a laptop with internet access, a lot of people do this simply because they can use the net on their way to work, riding the bus or subway or whatever. That is why I refuse to play high buy-in tourneys, the fact that your money is too vulnerable to being cheated out of you. I'll stick to my $5 and $10 buy-in tourneys, thank you.