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Bill Finneran vs. Sam Ahmed – Illegal Move

Posted By: Art Grater
Date: Wednesday, 25 February 2015, at 11:56 p.m.

In Response To: Bill Finneran vs. Sam Ahmed – Illegal Move (Jason Lee)

Any non-zero time penalty you come up with can cause your opponent to lose the game, directly or indirectly. On the other hand, I agree some improper actions deserve non-lethal punishment, as evidenced by my preference for LM (NOT rearguing that issue).

So if you want to use time as a penalty, another approach would be to ADD to YOUR time when your opponent makes repeated NLM. Then you won't "win that way" because your opponent is error prone due to, say, inexperience. Keep in mind that while you might give someone a pass, others won't.

I have a friendly monthly poker game and the last game of the evening is a no-peekie game. We played for years with the official penalty of "you look, you lose". But it was never enforced because it was too harsh. So we switched to freezing at the number of cards not exposed prematurely, and that is something that players are willing to enforce.

>He was an out and out cheater, and I told him so, because 95% of his illegal moves swung equity in his favor. He had no incentive to stop, because there was no penalty for his transgressions.

IMO, the root problem was that a cheater was permitted to play week after week.

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