Jama-dharma

I'm posting this because I want the community to be aware of what Jama and some other players are doing to abuse the system. My hope is that Poker Stars sees this and takes some kind of action. I don't have very high hopes considering I typed a lengthy email a few months back about the second worst offender of this, Desktop775, and received no response.

What Jama is doing is sitting alone at every limit from 10/20 to 500/1000 in the seat that guarantees him the button if two other players sit before the first hand is dealt (which often happens). He's then playing short sessions which ensure he's playing one orbit without paying his fair share of blinds.

To understand the value of this:

Here is a breakdown of my positional value in exactly 6-handed play over the last 3 years (~680K hands):

Button: .12 BB/HD
CO: .10 BB/HD
HJ: .10 BB/HD
UTG: .08 BB/HD
SB: (.23) BB/HD
BB: (.12) BB/HD

Now let’s assume you take the seat that guarantees you the button first as Jama is doing and leave the table when it’s 6-handed.

You’re on the button to start and play your button, CO, HJ, and UTG for free. So you gain .4 Big Bets. Now imagine if you left the table say after 2 rounds. You’d play 10 hands and gain .4 Big Bets. Now imagine that’s all you do all day. You’re averaging 4 BB/100. If you left after 4 hands, you’d gain 10 BB/100.

I checked my HEM for the last three years and filtered for all of Jama's sessions:

I've played 331 sessions with him. Of those 331 sessions, he played 10 hands or less in 195 of them. His average session length is 16 hands.

Even more disturbing is that majority of his lengthy sessions are when the recreational player has sat to his immediate right, giving him the best seat at the table in addition to the button first.

To be fair, there are some sessions where I joined the table and the game had already been running but those are in the vast minority. And there also some sessions where I left the table before he left but these are also extremely rare.

Edit: For a frame of reference I've played 25670 sessions over this period and my average session length is 45.3 hands