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[QUOTE="detroitjunkie, post: 2801546, member: 61462"]
I like to allow players to do whatever they want when heads up.  Truth or lie, this is a tool of the game.  Being able to read your opponents and get them to give away information any way you can.  Live poker has always been about tells, and if your talk can get them to give a tell then good for you.  The WSOP has been loosing their control on this because too many players (like Kid Poker who is VERY influential at WSOP) have been saying talk should be allowed to a certain point.

Berating a player will never be tolerated, so this can not be part of the talk.

However there are two issues
1.  This can take up time and slow the game down.  In a cash game that means less rake per hour - very bad.  In tournament it means less hands per blind level, makes other players angry, and some consider it unfair because they cant read people as well (to this point though I say tuff shit-learn to do it)

2. Collusion can be afoot, (not really an issue when in cash game) where as a player may not want to take another out of tournament, or may want to dump chips to them, either way this is very bad.  I leave it up to the dealer to decide which is happening, if any of it.  If floor is called, then a warning should be issued either way just to keep the players at bay and let them know that we are watching.
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