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Sonny, all in protection is the number of times you can win the "main" pot after disconnecting... Let's say that you have a 3 way pot, for $6 each preflop...pot is around $18 right... you disconnect due to a hiccup or whatever and your action times out. With two all in protections left, it will use one, and treat your action as an "all in" situation for just what you have put into the pot. You will not be able to bet any futher, and it will create a side pot for the remaining two players. It allows you to still play for your portion of the pot. After your protections are gone, further time outs are treated under the conventional rules of being a check/fold situation.

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Sonny,

My understanding of all in protection is that in a case where you are disconnected the software protects your hand. Instead of folding to the next bet you hand is played as if you where all in (even though no additional moneys are put into the pot from your stack), and stays live until the river giving you a chance to win the hand. If other players are in the hand then a side pot is created for them.

In theory this is a good thing but i have seen it abused so often that I prefer not to have this protection. Players who want to see the river with out putting more money in the pot can disconnect on purpose and have a chance to win the pot. So i see it as a bad thing. Of course I have a really good connection and never use the protection anyway.

hopes this helps,

jadie

Yeh it is open to abuse and I've seen it done also. For instance a player may make the river with some sort of small hand. He may think he's ahead at that point but my face a bet on the river that he cant call ie He's either behind or he's facing a bluff - either way he knows he cant call. So he disconnects and he stays in the hand, without having to risk further money. I think it's blatant cheating but the facility is there on some sites.

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