That's a different issue the
hands you choose to play after the agreement is made is up to the players and how they want to proceed.
in pre 2006 play used to do this every so often and never had an issue. You have a premium hand you play it and all bets off for that hand, all depends on the players and how they want to proceed. Never seen it discussed in games since I have been playing this past year was just curious about the ruling.
haven not done it in years just curious cause I was on a table today and the person sitting out was short stacked but had 50bbs and was on the bubble. So just a theoretical question.
As soon as he was down to 10BB he woke up and went allin twice and knocked out the person previously in 3rd. I like to see people penalized for sitting out a game that is just my personal opinion, no control over it so I accept what it is.
But it is also a strategy some seem to implement like the player above. I was in a $7000 MTT a couple months ago and the short stack was on the bubble and wound up beating a live player because of a feature on some sites that auto-raise the inactive bb forcing the live player into a hand he should not have been in. He lost with a better premium hand which happens and I am not concerned about that but in cases like that the BB should fold and be forced into a hand with less than the BB for next hand. The fact that the software auto-raises for the bb seems sketchy to me.