This may already exist...
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 8:50 pm
In tournaments, can there be a max amount of minutes a player can be sitting out, before it bumps him out?
Then you'd have to refund his buy-in and reduce the prize pool. Then everyone who got low on chips would just sit out.Alex wrote:In tournaments, can there be a max amount of minutes a player can be sitting out, before it bumps him out?
Well, we've been having a problem with people exploiting the time-out to stay in until the final 3. Doesn't happen all the time, but it has been happening a lot lately. Mostly with people playing the first few hands aggressively and getting a decent amount of chips then just sitting out until it's time for them to play in the final 3.Kent Briggs wrote:
Then you'd have to refund his buy-in and reduce the prize pool. Then everyone who got low on chips would just sit out.
A player has every right to just fold every hand. It makes no difference if they manually click the Fold button every turn or check the Away box and have it done for them automatically.Demented wrote: Well, we've been having a problem with people exploiting the time-out to stay in until the final 3. Doesn't happen all the time, but it has been happening a lot lately. Mostly with people playing the first few hands aggressively and getting a decent amount of chips then just sitting out until it's time for them to play in the final 3.
Agree with Kent ..Kent Briggs wrote:A player has every right to just fold every hand. It makes no difference if they manually click the Fold button every turn or check the Away box and have it done for them automatically.Demented wrote: Well, we've been having a problem with people exploiting the time-out to stay in until the final 3. Doesn't happen all the time, but it has been happening a lot lately. Mostly with people playing the first few hands aggressively and getting a decent amount of chips then just sitting out until it's time for them to play in the final 3.
You would have to refund their buy-in and reduce the prize pool. That's why it's problematic with a non-freeroll tournament. It's a bait and switch on everyone else. None of the major online sites do this. Perhaps a better alternative would be to add a function that unregisters players if they haven't logged back in within a certain time of the tourney start and another option to allows for late registration. However, late registration is usually only allowed for very large tournaments (hundreds or thousands of players).SVTF wrote: But lets say we have someone pre register for a tourney because they are going to be late for the start.
And the rule is that if they do not show up to play by 1.5 hours in that they will be removed from the table.
Will the unregister feature work ? Game is running and under the tourney tab you double click the tourney.
Could you then select the person that has not showed up and unregister him?
Does this also take his chips out of the price pool?
True, but when they're purposly sitting out to get to the final three and go off to play in other ring games, it really is an issue, at least the way I see it.Kent Briggs wrote:A player has every right to just fold every hand. It makes no difference if they manually click the Fold button every turn or check the Away box and have it done for them automatically.Demented wrote: Well, we've been having a problem with people exploiting the time-out to stay in until the final 3. Doesn't happen all the time, but it has been happening a lot lately. Mostly with people playing the first few hands aggressively and getting a decent amount of chips then just sitting out until it's time for them to play in the final 3.
Then you'd also have an issue with someone just sitting there clicking the fold button every turn to make the money because there is no difference between the two. By the way, if someone can fold every single hand and make it into the money, that is a sign of some really bad play by the other players.Demented wrote: True, but when they're purposly sitting out to get to the final three and go off to play in other ring games, it really is an issue, at least the way I see it.