Players that let there timer run to the end (online poker)

I play on full tilt and notice late in tournaments when players are Im guessing wasting as much time as possible so they can just grind out hitting the cash. What do you all think of this? Is it a smart move? annoying move? thoughts??

Unquestionably annoying. Probably not very effective.

I find it especially annoying when people do it early on in the tourney. There are some on FT and other sites that do exactly that throughout the tourney, i think just to annoy others and get them to make a mistake. They will.............................................. ................... Run down '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''the clock ..............................................ever y time.

On/near the bubble I can understand if they are a small stack, hoping someone else goes out before they do....but still find it somewhat annoying.

I don't get why big stacks do it too

Yea it does not make sense to me why they would do it early on in the tournament...

Definitly an annoying move, but definitly can be useful. I don't play many tourneys, but when I do I will try to manipulate things so that the blind increases will hit strategic people, or happen just past me. As to doing it continuously, it is obnoxious, but I suppose if you are going to do it as a means of letting more people bust out it would be most effective to do in an MTT early on and all the way through. Added side effect of possibly tilting opponents at your table speeding their demise as well, and you're probably playing ultratight till the blinds get bigger if you're doing this anyway. If its within the rules and you feel you can use it to benefit yourself I guess you're a fool to not do it. Still obnoxious though.

I hate when people do it but at the same time if i am the small stack and close to the MONEY, i will try to go slow because someone might takea bad beat and go out or go on tilt and than yo can make the money, but most of the time yes i hate it when people do that

Doesn't annoy me. Has it's legitimate uses.

It is what it is a waste of time. And I will agree annoying also.

I refuse to use it.

I'll do it early in a tourney when there are one or more players going all in every hand. It decreases the number of hands I play at that table before the next table change. I don't like coin flips so the fewer hands I play at a table like this the better off I am.

You can use it to great advantage in turbo sng's Its part of the game.

I honestly think some people do it to be the center of attention. True-there are times to do it but not EVERY F%CKIN HAND!

There are certain players that take all their allotted "time" with each turn. I have wondered this myself and I think you should be given a total amount of time that, once it expires, you only get maybe 7 seconds to make a decision. I have honestly seen some players take all their time just to put the other players on tilt and unfortunately, it works. It certainly affects the game as the blinds on Bodog are set to ten minutes at most tables.

/...being honest, ive used this on a couple of occasions....last time was the 22 dollar double deuce on full tilt...it was very close to the money, I was 2 hands away from being BB, which woulda put me all in...i cliked time, jhad 60 seconds...took all the time i could, and in that time lots of peolpe got knocked out, to an extent that we were playing hand for hand, and somene got knocked out and i got paid..so time wasting made me 31 dollars...it can be good, but ive seen chip leaders do it constanrtly,i figure theyd want to play as many hands as possible near bubble??.

I agree with thejuan, if I can slow down the all in crowd it might make it easier to last awhile until I get moved

I will sometimes let my timer run for 5 or 10 seconds even when I know i'm gonna call or raise just to make people think I'm hesitating. But letting it go to the end is very annoying.

Never thought about it this way, thanks for the tip. Better than sitting out until a table change. But sometimes I'll stall to annoy the crap out of an all-in-happy.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Poker Stars is the only one I know of that does something similar. Might be something like 60 seconds the first time, 45 or 30 seconds the next, and slowly decreases. Full Tilt's timer seems about 20 seconds, not bad. Not sure if it gives you your full allotment every time you ask for extra time. VERY rarely use that one.

Good points. But the time to start stalling in not 2 hands to the BB or right at the bubble. It is at LEAST a round before, with several people needed to bust. Once you hit hand for hand, it's too late to effect a better outcome. Was railing a friend this morning, and some guy at the table was not going to last the blinds, because there were antes as well. He stalled, but not even his full allotment. Some including myself were even encouraging him to stall, hey we've all been there. He just made it.

It helps to use the search filter before starting a whole new thread that already has current threads on the same topic.

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I have pulled the old let the clock run out trick before to make the $ in a few tournys before. Its not that useful when every table is doing it. It has helped me though and i realize it is annoying at times but works occasionaly

i have never done it on purpose but sometimes i am multitabling a whole lot of tables and this happens to me. i will be in a tough decision on one table and will need some extra time on that table and so all the other tables that i am playing might have timed out or the timer is running. this happens often late in the tourney as there are lots of tough decisions that you need to make for most of your stack. so that might be a reason why you guys see the chip leader or others running down the timer, some might be doing it to stall some time but most likely they are mass multitabling and are busy on another table.

Its actually pretty affective. Ive seen it done alot and love it when all of a sudden they shove all in like they don't have As or Ks and want a call. Even better when they get beat.

It amazes me how mad some people get at the start of big tourneys. The tourney is going to last for hours, unless you get knocked out. lol. Some will start going all in because they had to wait to play their 25off. I will use it if I had played for hours, got a bad beat and don't want to bubble. The time is there for a reason and when you need it use it. I won't use it til I need to though.

I want people to waste their time bank early in a tournement, that way when they really need it, it isn't there.

i had a guy who did it while in "hand for hand" needless to say he finished 1 spot off the money and got a trophy for bubble boy

sorry im fairly new to the forum.

SOmetimes as a big stack, I like to do it a little. Especially if there are any comparible sized stacks at my table. Timing out a bit keeps me playing fewer hands so I can sustain my big stack, instead of getting into situations where I'm calling small stack shoves with KJ hoping to bust them and break the bubble. If I lose the hand I end up doing the opposite of what I want. So sometimes I wait it out a bit before foldng or raising to give small stacks at other tables some time to bust. And even if they delay to hang on too, that's fine because next time the blinds go up they'll be in even worse shape. But if the structure has hand-for-hand as most do, this delaying tactic is just a waste of time for everybody.

The weird thing about this is sometimes because they got caught stealing so they might want to make it look like a hard lay down and try to win back some respect that they hand before from playing tight before changing gears. Just a thought

it takes a few rounds to find out the sitters on fultilt,,personaly i luv sitters ,they are free chips on there bb,,sb,,and should be theived as much as possible,,as regards runnin down clock late on,,if ive got chips ile bully short staks at bubble time ,,if im low ile grind out for cash then try an double u soon after cashing

Ahhhhh yes. I have seen players do this too. Most of the time when they get called they have something like Jack/6 offsuit or some other donkish hand such as low pair on the board.

It drives me nuts when people play slow but I guess its their privilege to do that and a lot are playing in multiple tourneys and use this for that probably they should have a limit and how many you can play in but the sites are in it to earn money so they dont care but they could lose some dues to this but on the other hand to reach the cash I think its ok but I dont do it just because I dont want people hollering at me lol.

no doubt it's another tool u should add in your arsenal, esp in the brutal turbo tourneys. why not, if it gives u an advantage?

If you are a short stack, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.