Players sitting out

Sometimes there are a lot of absent players at the poker table.It is very inconvenient to play at such a table.I don't see why register if not going to play.Understand the players missing for a good reason.But in games with early registration is sometimes missing half.How do you feel about that?

I feel really good about that, easy to raise and steal their blinds.

Just take their chips what is the problem? I can't get it. If I see such a situation I am always glad.

Many people are because they have complicated routines and although they want to play the day was comic and they are absent in my case it is my internet that is deplorable lately

For whatever reason players sit out , I take advantage and just keep taking their chips.
Ya it is boring sometimes , and the worst is poker sites that make you play against these sitters when they go allin finally , and they win !! Because their hands are not folded ... so sometimes it takes a few hands with them going allin when the blinds hit and you now need to just hope your hand is better.
To me - that is poor software to have to play against them when they have been sitting out the whole time.

I'm with Dino, nothing we can do about it, so raise and take their blinds.

I used to play in free freerolls before going to bed, sometimes I would fall asleep. The tournament without early registration did not meet.

I like it when there are lots of sitters because they dont win a lot of pots. If they should happen to win a pot in the big blind then this means someone isnt paying much attention and you can take notice of that and take advantage.

Missing players are good, because they can not raise me.

I welcome them with open arms...but they are not there...so I steal as many blinds as possible.I won a $3.30 bounty builder entry a couple of nights ago with intentions of unregistering for the tournament dollars.then I decided I would rest my eyes for a bit then play the tourney.I rested more than my eyes very well indeed and am sure whoever got my bounty didn't mind me sitting out lol.

Usually this happens in freerolls or micro games because you can't loose serious amount of money even if you don't play. Except the obvious reasons like internet drop or sudden urgent job that needs to be done there are other circumstances which may force person to be sit out in the beginning. For example when the old league in pokerstars had freeroll at 20:00 local time i regularly registered for it despite the fact that my shift finishes at the same time and i also need around 30 minutes to go home. I had calculated that for 30 minutes i will still have enough chips left and also most of the "all in with every card" type players will be gone so i can in fact start playing and have chance to win something. In such low buyin tournaments/freerolls people like to register no matter if they will be able to play or not and it is not illegal to do so. As mentioned you can easily steal blinds from them and use that in your favor.

If you are a business man and just want to profit is perfect. I love it when it happens. Time to steal the blinds, even if it's a table where half the players are not here. It has happened to enter a spingo and the opponents to be absent, bring the dollars!

It is fine when it happens. I remember one time when i was at the first table alone with sitouters.

yeah it's also interesting that you sometimes can get a chip lead early and then just afk and eventually make it to ITM by autofolding each hand, when if you played you had a chance of losing everything before you made it to ITM. must not be worth it in the long run since you can't make it win that way but it is interesting.

I like the absent players, more for me, better than the bullys or all inners are more annoying

A lot of people register and hope they cash by sitting out. Especially on sites like 888 where your hand is live when you are sitting out. I often do this with their $20 Snap tournament. It starts after I go to bed and when I get up I usually cash for 1-2 cents.

Not sure why you would do this if you paid but freerolls I can understand. If they are at your table, take their blinds and say thank you.

There are tournaments where this is often the casebut only in freerolls where the prize is very small. I do not know what your problem is, just steal the blinds. It's a pretty big chaos on these tournaments, that's just a little help.

Sometimes you just have to sit-out for some reason. Maybe you just need to do some other things, or, for example, you can have connection problems. Some times you can register for the tournament, but in that time you want to go to sleep so hard, that you just fall asleep.

It's great when there are no registered players at your table. You can safely increase your stack.

Take their blinds, and be thankful to them

Free blinds...but be careful if raising out of position to snag those free blinds... :-)

If they're sitting out, isn't it easier to win? Less people to play against means better odds. You can take their blinds if they're not there right?
You're gonna see sitouts in games that have registration open hours and days before the game actually starts. People think they can play but something comes up for them.

Just me at a table and nobody calling?

That might be the only way I can win!

Accumulate as many chips as you can!

Good luck !

You can take advantage of a spot like this. Especially if the inactive player is in the big blind you can just raise and take it from them. Also look out for others trying to steal blinds. The active players may raise light and you can three bet them and steal from them as well.

The best situation when we play is the fact that all players at our table are absent except us. Just raise and collect chips. Whenever only a few players are absent, you often have to try to steal the blinds.

I really like when a lot of players in some kind of tournament are missing, I agree with the participant - dino -, for me it's fine but maybe someone does not like it!

if there are absent players I do not see it as a nuisance, I see it as an advantage and I try to take advantage of it as well as possible, you must take into account that people do not register and say: hey I will be absent to bother the players, many have problems of internet, family matters, many forget, remember that we are human beings and we are not perfect therefore sometimes memory can fail

ACR needs to change their rules because an inactive player should not be allowed to win a hand. They are not playing and are hence on auto fold. I lost a really important satellite to a players on the bubble one of which won an all in with J5 of hearts and everyone was down to like 3-6 BB.I had QQ.

ACR does not need to change anything. Being sitting out is not against the rules. If you say you lost an important tourney because of a guy sitting out it was just a bad luck, nothing more. Do you really mean that a player sitting out should not win at all? That's ridiculous, isn't it?

That's how coinpoker does it. Also don't like auto shove when sitting out has less than 2 BB.

With that thing, I can agree, I hate this too. And thanks for reminding me about this behavior, I'm going to give feedback about this to Official ACR Thread.
But I still disagree that players who are sitting out should not receive cards or be involved in a hand at all.

Sitting out happens. Away from computer happens. Losing to them sucks.

I admit I hate when it happens but what can you do. I just try to make the best of the situation. Its also can bring out some of the crazy people when you have this happen and the are raising big every time they can steal those chips. The positive about that is I shove back at them and winning a bigger pot when they fold. Next time it happens just look at it as a opportunity to increase your stack.

It usually only happens a lot in freerolls, from my experience.

I just lol laughed out loud. Yes it does suck losing to them. It's like there not even in the game and they still win its unbelievable.

I hare it when I get beat by players sitting out

No way a player sitting out should be afforded the opportunity to win a pot. It doesn't happen live and it shouldn't happen anywhere.

I try to rake as many chips out of them as fast as possible it can be super annoying but if players are lemons make some lemonade

It could be double edged sword.You could be the the one who is stealing their blind but also that could be any other player who is playing.There's two types of solution i like to apply in this situation:1.i will act aggressively and try to still their blinds as much as i can.If i am successful in this i do not need the second thing.
2.If the other players who are playing also show their interest to steal blinds i will retreat and let them do that.The reason why im doing this is that they now become complacent so it is for me to wait to hit a monster and then eliminate them.After that i will go back to the rule number one and steel the remaining blinds.

That's right. If you suspect someone is doing open raise too light you can 3-bet them light as well or just wait for a monster hand.

I do not pay attention to this, it does not interfere with the game when 2 or 3 people are not at the table.

with some luck, you can get their chips
with bad luck, the shark eat you more

in all cases: the ones sitting out do not take your chips

Some sites kick players who miss xx amount of minutes or rounds. This is mostly done in freerolls. If someone pays to play then you can't kick them.

I feel really good,just raise and they fold probably some of them register very earley and forget to join to play that tournament

It's a good thing. Once I had a FR table with 2 people that weren't sitting out. Knocked them both out and got a table where everyone else was afk. Spammed call and took blinds and antes for about 10 minutes, was funny and gained a lot of chips from it. If you have a few afks abuse it. Be in more pots since you have more EV than standard play

I do not think that an absent player can affect much, only when everyone wants to steal the blinds of the absent and do not know how to take advantage of that

would you rather have somebody sitting there who is playing against you?

i wish they were all inactive

Sitting out on their turn, their chips, their time? You're right. They have no right to do that.