Poker Etiquette

We all have our opinions of what poker etiquette should be so I don't expect everyone to agree but I am curious.

Does anyone think that needlessly stalling the action of a game is bad poker etiquette?

Key word in your post being "needlessly", there are circumstances where stalling the game is a perfectally acceptable strategy. MTT and satellite bubbles spring to mind.

there are a few situationst , were stalling definetly is against poker etiquette...

for example, when you are stalling with the nuts on the hand and wait till aou are calling an allin...

sometimes players got a time penalty for this

I remember TIffany Michelle in last years' wsop Main Event complaining to a guy who took 20 seconds every time it was his turn to move. Even the easy folds. That would drive me crazy too.

Taking time when you have a hand you might play is fine. But doing it every time to disguise whether or not his hand was good is lame. Folding tells us your hand was poor, betting tells us it is good. So sure, take the same amount of time to bet when you actually have to consider a situation, but otherwise insta-muck the trash.

Exceptions to this would be if you are trying toget into the money in a tournament.

So yes, "needlessly stalling the action" is bad etiquette. People are there to play poker, and the longer you take the fewer hands they get to participate in.

tenbob said:

Key word in your post being "needlessly", there are circumstances where stalling the game is a perfectally acceptable strategy. MTT and satellite bubbles spring to mind.

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I disagree with this because that is what the hand for hand dealing is for.
But I do agree the key word being needlessly, if a cardroom does not do hand for hand then maybe I would agree with stalling otherwise no stalling is bad etiquette.

Hand for hand really only applies to pure bubble situations. A decent example would be the sunday million turbo rebuy sats. Lots of times I have been in the top 10 players with 80(ish) seats with 100 or so players left, and not being able to affoard another orbit once the blinds go up. Circumstances like that really do warrent stalling to make the ticket.

tenbob said:

Lots of times I have been in the top 10 players with 80(ish) seats with 100 or so players left, and not being able to affoard another orbit once the blinds go up. Circumstances like that really do warrent stalling to make the ticket.

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I agree that there is a big difference between "running down the clock" toward the goal of cashing and purposefully (as opposed to "needlessly) stalling throughout the duration of tourneys, especially the mega ones.

Pretty much what Tenbob said - there are some situations where stalling is a legit tactic. Doing it needlessly is obviously poor form though.