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[QUOTE="Dorkus Malorkus, post: 391217, member: 6020"]
Rather than taking a step back, you need to address this problem directly in order to maximise your winrate. Patience is difficult, but can be learned, and simply avoiding the issue is not the way to go about this. Also, you should never be bored playing poker. Even if you're not in a hand you should be gleefully absorbing information, not sitting there feeling sorry for yerself cos you haven't seen a face card in 3 orbits or whatever.

I've won tourneys by not sitting out. So what?

You're actually losing focus if you stop paying attention to the table for any length of time, because you're missing out on information. Once again, learn to keep focused as opposed to sidestepping the issue.

Ohhh dear. Consider the following. You have an average stack, and the chip leader is at your table. Would you rather he (a) just sat out, took no interest in any pots and kept surrendering his blinds or (b) kept appplying pressure to the table and using his big stack in a constructive, aggressive manner? Only one of the aforementioned falls under my definition of "controling the table".

I really cannot understand why this has even become debatable. If you consider yourself to be a stronger then average player, then sitting out is quite obviously -EV, as you are missing out on potential opportunities to apply your edge. If you consider yourself to be a worse than average player, you should be moving down in limits and researching more.
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