I was recently playing a NL20 FR cash game on 888 where I played the following hand.
Pacific Poker - $0.20 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3
MP+1: $20.00
CO: $52.54
BTN: $34.63
SB: $17.86
Hero (BB): $28.87
UTG: $8.58
UTG+1: $1.90
MP: $20.07
SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.20
Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero has A♦ A♠
fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.90 and is all-in, MP calls $1.90, fold, CO calls $1.90, BTN calls $1.90, fold, Hero raises to $7.00, fold, fold, BTN calls $5.10
Flop: ($19.80, 3 players) 8♣ J♠ 5♦
Hero bets $9.90, BTN raises to $27.63, Hero calls $11.97
Turn: ($63.54, 3 players) T♦
River: ($63.54, 3 players) 6♣
BTN shows K♦ K♥ (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 17%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows A♦ A♠ (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 69%, Flop 68%, Turn 64%)
UTG+1 shows 9♦ J♥ (One Pair, Jacks) (Pre 14%, Flop 23%, Turn 31%)
Hero wins $9.12
Hero wins $51.25
On the flop (before I had bet) MP decides to tell us that he folded a jack (or JJ cant remember for sure) during the hand.
I found this really annoying and is bad etiquette. It can obviously influence other players decisions in the hand.
I decided to report this to 888 support, this is my reply:
Dear yyyy,
Thank you for contacting us. My name is xxxxx, Member Support Representative and I will gladly assist you with your query today.
yyyy, I write in order to inform you that each member playing our games is free to choose how to behave during the game, except when following the prestated rules of our site. In this case the member you are talking about disclosed his hand combination of cards due to his own willing and we are not able to do anything about this matter, because as I said each player is free to choose what move to be done.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and if you require further assistance in this or any other matter, please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards,
xxxxxx
TBH when sending my e-mail i had expected them not to tolerate this behaviour. It would not be tolerated in a live situation (and to my experience never has) so I was little disappointed to see 888 take this stance.
Is this standard practice for most clients to allow this? Do you think players should be allowed to announce their hole cards during a hand. Would you have reported it.
Thanks
Muel294