loopmeister
Rock Star
Silver Level
I read several accounts of guys using the QFold button to increase their M slightly.
Perhaps more importantly you play more hands per hour. So if you can play 200 hands in an hour by being supertight and a loose player manages 100. You should be getting KK and AA twice as often as him in the same amount of time.
Zorba
27
Platinum Level
The clock is there for you to use, you can do whatever you want with it, and if you don't stall when you are short stacked you are only robing yourself of the opportunity to cash in the tourney, even if it is only the buy in that you get back.
10058765
Legend
Loyaler
Sometimes, having shortstacks to my left, and I see blinds are going to increase soon, I stall, just to make sure they will have to pay the higher blinds.
Sometimes that makes the difference between forcing them to shove/call ATC ,instead of being able to wait for another orbit, thus getting a few more chances to get a real hand.
Further, in MTT on the bubble, with a very agressive high stacked bubbleplayer, bullying the table and picking up almost every blind and me not being able to do something about it, I stall to make sure we play less hands so he will get less opportunities to pick up blinds.
Meanwhile hoping the bubble will burst soon at another table.
If I'm the one being able to pick up a lot of blinds, because of the others being afraid to play, obv I play as fast as I can, sometimes even folding to a shortstack (of which I know I'm far ahead in the hand) just to get the bubbleplay last longer.
Being shortstacked at the bubble myself it depends.
If I don't see opportunities to win some scared money I stall.
Unless I see I have almost no chance of making it, even by stalling.
In that case I play it agressive (shove ATC and pray).
Also, often there are players who are afraid to play any pot at all, even against a shortstack, and in that case I will try to pick up some blinds.
In short however, you have a timebank, so use it if the situation requires so.
Sometimes that makes the difference between forcing them to shove/call ATC ,instead of being able to wait for another orbit, thus getting a few more chances to get a real hand.
Further, in MTT on the bubble, with a very agressive high stacked bubbleplayer, bullying the table and picking up almost every blind and me not being able to do something about it, I stall to make sure we play less hands so he will get less opportunities to pick up blinds.
Meanwhile hoping the bubble will burst soon at another table.
If I'm the one being able to pick up a lot of blinds, because of the others being afraid to play, obv I play as fast as I can, sometimes even folding to a shortstack (of which I know I'm far ahead in the hand) just to get the bubbleplay last longer.
Being shortstacked at the bubble myself it depends.
If I don't see opportunities to win some scared money I stall.
Unless I see I have almost no chance of making it, even by stalling.
In that case I play it agressive (shove ATC and pray).
Also, often there are players who are afraid to play any pot at all, even against a shortstack, and in that case I will try to pick up some blinds.
In short however, you have a timebank, so use it if the situation requires so.
brackdog
Rock Star
Silver Level
It's a play that has it's place, but time can be your enemy in some of these satellite tournaments where the blinds get huge and almost everyone is at risk. I can't say how many times in the Ferguson sat that I've seen a UTG or UTG +1 player stall just long enough to allow the blinds go up right before they post, putting him/her all in.
If they had just folded quickly as the blinds approached, they could have let the lower level blinds roll through and stalled on the other side, with a few chips left to limp across the finish line.
If they had just folded quickly as the blinds approached, they could have let the lower level blinds roll through and stalled on the other side, with a few chips left to limp across the finish line.