oneybiggs
Legend
Silver Level
Aha my bad,i see where you were coming from now,i agree.I could never understand people who instead of minding their own game keep complaining about others.
Aha my bad,i see where you were coming from now,i agree.I could never understand people who instead of minding their own game keep complaining about others.
The goal of playing a tournament is not to just finish in the money. The goal is to win, right?
i agree to stall to get in the money if your a shallow stack but what is the point of a big stack tanking every hand to min cash ? i dont get it ,if it was me id be applying alot of pressure with a big stack pretty much playing any 2 unless theres an all in then i would have to consider who went all in and there tendencies but i been playing this $22 mtt on Acr Tonight and people just tanking left and right with monster stacks its crazy
I had a recent situation at a live tournament w 13 players left and 12 spots paying out. I was the button w pocket 10's at a 6 player table which was more or less auto folding every hand. My stack situation was still better than a few players.
I wanted to play my hand, but did not want to see a flop. So I went all in. Surprisingly, to me, the small button thought long and hard, and then called w KK's, and I went out on the bubble.
I really beat myself up for longer than I should have, for not folding. Not so sure I wouldn't do again though, given the same situation.
i agree to stall to get in the money if your a shallow stack but what is the point of a big stack tanking every hand to min cash ? i dont get it ,if it was me id be applying alot of pressure with a big stack pretty much playing any 2 unless theres an all in then i would have to consider who went all in and there tendencies but i been playing this $22 mtt on Acr Tonight and people just tanking left and right with monster stacks its crazy
Stalling is such a drag when near the bubble. or during MTTs and 3 or 4 tables left of 5-8 players varying. When I played more in the past and that scenario, I was often watching the other 2 or 3 tables. You would get to where no hands were being dealt until the other tables finished. And I would see all the other tables but 1 done with their hand and here is this table with all of them taking the full allotment of time to play. Literally multiple minutes pass between a hand waiting for this table to complete it's hand.
I try to play majority of time quickly. To me I want my blinds to be as low as they can when my turn comes. It's one thing to tank a few hands here and there, it's just another when you see a player do it every hand. I don't need to wait for you to decide to fold that 27OS you were dealt. The way I look at. UTG-OK SB-OK BB-OK All-in decisions-OK If you have chips in the pot and there's a raise-OK
But 8-10 handed 2nd or 3rd to act, nothing invested in the pot and you just tanked the last 3 hands? Get it over with. Raise or fold. Or after UTG tanks what are you thinking about that you need that timebank?
Again not a problem if it's a casual few hands but every hand for 10 hands straight or more? You're costing me time to gain chips with more hands played. The online stats when I'm around avg chip and 5 hands later where I've not had a hand to play, and suddenly I'm 1,000s behind an avg chipstack.