Poker Fluffer

I was telling my girlfriend about the latest online poker gossip/scandal involving an alleged chatlog in which Thorladen and Imperium discuss multi-accounting with the help of services like GoToMyPC that allow you to access other computers remotely from a different computer anywhere in the world. The basic idea, and something that has surely happened dozens of times whether these two actually did it or not, is for a very good tournament player to stake several decent but less-good tournament players in super-profitable online events like the WCOOP or the FTOPS. Should one of the horses start to get deep in the tournament, the better player can take over for the decisions that will have the biggest impact on the team’s EV.

“They’re like poker fluffers,” she quipped without missing a beat. “They get it started, and then the pro comes in to finish it off. You’d have to be a pretty big tool to agree to something like that, not just ethically but like… as a matter of personal respect.”

I agree, though I’m sure plenty of people care a lot more about getting backed for these tournaments by any means necessary, not to mention getting to take credit for the win on sites like Pocket 5’s, than they do about stuff like ethics and personal respect. Anyway, I think “Poker Fluffers” is a brilliant names for these clowns, and I encourage you all to do your part to make it stick!

4 thoughts on “Poker Fluffer”

  1. I’m glad you read 2+2 so I don’t have to. 🙂

    It’s kind of a stupid way to cheat – anything you win playing a horse’s account of course goes into your horse’s account, and he’s got you by the short ones if he decides to just keep it. What are you going to do – go on 2+2 and claim he ripped you off?

    You’re counting on someone with basically no integrity to suddenly develop some.

    But that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

  2. You guys have suuuuuuuch dirty minds. Clearly she meant this:

    “On a TV show set or in a comedy club setting, “fluffer” can refer to a warm-up act, whose task it is to engage the audience prior to the arrival of the main attraction…”

    😉

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