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Message: [QUOTE="audacity, post: 4630895, member: 126217"] When I started Holdem a few years ago - and I was close to cashing, I would use my timer to bottom line, cash. Later I read it's considered a bit looked down upon. But anymore, if I have the timer, and I can use it and it's part of the game rules allotted - I will use the timer to my advantage- and as I write this sentence, I just realized a potential justification for using time to ones advantage and that is... Equally when I do a snap call, I WANT that other player to know, I didn't think about it - I wanted to use a SHORT time allotment to my advantage to 'fool' them. So the question is, using timer for strategy in a SINGLE hand ? as in real short time calls? I think that is used all the time and respected. I hear you on it costs everyone time, but at the end of the day - as Doyle Brunson says 'When I sit down to play poker with friends, sure, we are all friends but as soon as the game starts I am out to destroy every single one of them'. Ok, so I didn't have a point to build on Doyle there, BUT, I meant to inherit from that sentiment that - you have to look out for YOU, and no one else, and if the timer can be used to your advantage? I say go for it. Plus you can only run it down once. I truly can see the POV though that people who let timers run down to 'just cash' near the end of a tournament? might be using that timer in a way that isn't part of normal poker strategy. Also, I do realize - and this is what I used to say when I didn't support running a timer out - which is - come on, if everyone does this, all it does is extend the entire tournament play to no ones advantage. Eh - I GUESS I'll settle on, in general? I don't want to bring deficit to the game, or the other players as to time, as time is limited in this life, Moody Blues has that song 22,000 days, the average lifetime length, so time IS valuable indeed. But enter Phil Hellmuth ranting about people who join tournaments late so they don't have to waste 2 more hours sitting at some table? I guess it's all about time management as WELL as bank roll management. YIKES, I'm not sure if I said anything at all in the end here ! But I think I did :) [/QUOTE]

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