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TheBigOneQQ
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Igor Popadyk
Legend
Platinum Level
There are many nuances, cash game or tournament? fast poker or turbo tournament? what stage of the tournament? maybe just a bubble or an increase in prize money. The player does not violate the rules of the game. It all depends on your moral and psychological preparation. maybe the player plays many tables or the tournament doesn’t On bankroll. I am furious when this happens on fast tables. but I think some people do it on purpose, provoke a mistake or drive them into tilt
beldin2010
Rock Star
Silver Level
Everybody hates that. Yes on the bubble is normal to have such play but every hand, common.
I think pokerstars added some rules or warnings against stalling because I received a warning years ago for stalling in their league freerolls but do not know if this is applied to other games, maybe not.
Lat week I had such player on our table and I remember that I was very frustrated.
I think pokerstars added some rules or warnings against stalling because I received a warning years ago for stalling in their league freerolls but do not know if this is applied to other games, maybe not.
Lat week I had such player on our table and I remember that I was very frustrated.
skaniol
Visionary
Bronze Level
Lol, once I had pocket AA in a tournament, but instead of snap-calling for all my chips pre-flop, I waited for my entire time bank to run out before committing. Then the other guy accused me of slow rolling... Like if the pocket aces are guaranteed to win... I regret snap-calling in a similar situation before, when my Aces ended up beaten by a set of Kings, which resulted in my elimination a few seconds away from the next prize level, despite having a full time bank. This situation wasn't much different. The next level was really close, so it made sense to stall right there. I wouldn't do it otherwise. It's not like I won't be wasting my own time too.
Even during waiting, the tournament clock is ticking. The Blinds are increasing. How long the tournament will last is mostly decided by the blinds structure and the number of participants.I totally agree with you; i saw many times players doing this and is indeed very annoying; because of them a tournament takes so many hours; ussually the tilt players do that.
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Lord Foma
Rock Star
Silver Level
Whether such players irritate me or not. I myself often take such actions and in most cases successfully.
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SubZero111
Rock Star
Silver Level
It drives me crazy when people wait for the last second to bet. It is probably something in the players strategy some of the time. But most of the time I think they are playing too many tables or too drunk or some other crazy thing. I wish the time allowed was reduced.
Bluffzone68
Legend
Platinum Level
pedrovitorcosta
Rock Star
Bronze Level
In poker online wasting time dont make you get some information of your opponent, is just annoying....
xpvictor1
Visionary
Silver Level
Definitely Annoying
I would like to emphasize that I am only talking about players that wait til the last second to bet 'every' hand. They act like Donald Trump: try to get you off guard by getting under your skin.
I would like to emphasize that I am only talking about players that wait til the last second to bet 'every' hand. They act like Donald Trump: try to get you off guard by getting under your skin.
German629
Legend
Platinum Level
Hi the ALL! I think this not good or not bad, if not forbidden the rules... This is reality.
Every player may so to do or not to do... I don't see in this anything problem, since,
by my opinion, the Poker is a Game for patient people. Therefore, I can only to advise
in this occasions: more to work above your patience the everyone, and yourself, of course!
Every player may so to do or not to do... I don't see in this anything problem, since,
by my opinion, the Poker is a Game for patient people. Therefore, I can only to advise
in this occasions: more to work above your patience the everyone, and yourself, of course!
whiskers77
The art of purring
Loyaler
In my opinion, the time bank is a good thing for several reasons. If I play many tables I am not always able to react fast on every table and also it is good for difficult decisions. And sometimes it is just also good to go to bathroom, I would say.
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CallmeFloppy
Legend
Bronze Level
The obvious reason to wait is to try to limit the number of hands you have to play to avoid paying blinds and antes in order to make the money but certainly other reasons.
One is to be consistent in the amount of time you take to avoid giving off a tell by how long you are taking to make a decision.
Another is if you know it bothers another player to have to wait. There are some opponents that I know hate when people delay. They will try to play faster thinking others will. I will deliberately play slow against them so that they are thinking more about having to wait then they are with what is actually happening in the hand.
One is to be consistent in the amount of time you take to avoid giving off a tell by how long you are taking to make a decision.
Another is if you know it bothers another player to have to wait. There are some opponents that I know hate when people delay. They will try to play faster thinking others will. I will deliberately play slow against them so that they are thinking more about having to wait then they are with what is actually happening in the hand.
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77ecos
Visionary
Bronze Level
To enter prizes is the only reason they can wait until the end if they are the bubble, otherwise it is the only explanation if they do it repetitive, annoying if they do it in each hand but someone like that has not touched me in any poker room
ldw22
Rock Star
Silver Level
That is something I used to always do, not just when trying to survive past the bubble with a short stack, but for every single action, every single street, even when I had the nuts on the river or had rags under the gun pre-flop. I did it to make sure that I wasn't giving away any "timing tells" to the more-observant players at the table: For example, if I didn't take the maximum time on every action, maybe instead I would fall into the habit of raising suited connectors like AhKh or KdJd super-quickly pre-flop because I'm hoping to scare players into folding, whereas if I got dealt AA or KK maybe I would take much longer to put my raise in, because I'm hoping one or two players will call and maximise my value. Over enough hands, good players could spot timing variations like that and start to work out the pattern. Also, it IS annoying to other players on the table, which could be a good thing because maybe they'll tilt away their chips! But nowadays I have more faith in my play, so I want to see more hands per hour. So instead of waiting until my timer has completely run out on every single action, I wait until until the timer bar has emptied half-way on every single action! That way I'm not slowing the game as much, but I'm still not giving away any timing tells.
mountainfox
Rock Star
Silver Level
Yeah it's annoying when people do that, but it's not against the rules. It's just bad poker etiquette. But, you can always just leave the table if it's a cash game. If it's a tournament, then you will just have to deal with it.
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onelovebeach
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I think that´s the best strategy to get the most value of your Hand hitting something like 4oaks on the flop. Get them to the river and make disapear their Chips.