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[QUOTE="Matt Vaughan, post: 2118961, member: 34747"]
Frankly I can see both sides of that video. Obviously Freddy Deeb considers himself to be a good, upstanding guy, and once he felt that his integrity was being called into question, whether as a joke or not, he couldn't let that stand.

He was also getting emotional though, and was clearly overreacting, and if we can't have a joke here and there at the poker table, you may as well not talk at all. It seems pretty clear that no one was actually accusing him of going south - the situation just escalated (as I've seen happen once or twice in games I've played)...

As for going south in general, it's considered bad form mostly because it does not give opponents the opportunity to "win back" their money from you. It's similar etiquette-wise to a hit and run, but the casino obviously can't enforce any rules against hitting and running, because it would get too complicated. "You can't leave the table if you just won a pot worth more than X bb or more than Y% of someone's stack, and..." Blah blah. But going south is an easily enforced rule that keeps most players happier with the game.
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