Poker sites should remove timeout when game starts

Don't you hate it when a tourney starts and half of the people are not there so each perso gets a 60 second time out.. What's worse is when it happens on freeroll (even though i mostly play it) i am all for timeout but i just hate it when the game starts. My suggestions is have ai see who's afk and keep them timeout until they come back. Then activate timeout after the 1st round of when cards dealt for other people.

I agree, thats its annoying to wait for someone to run their entire time bank in the very first hand of the tournaments before going into sit-out mode. And especially so if its a large timebank like 60 seconds. However the software cant detect, if people are present or not. So the only way to solve this would be to give players a smaller time bank at the beginning of the tournament.

And I certainly think, that would be reasonable. Its online poker, and people should be able to make any decision is much less than 60 seconds especially in the first blind levels, where its rare, that their stack is at risk. So maybe give each player 20 seconds at the beginning at the tournament, and then add another 10 seconds, every time the blinds go up.

Hi mp3plater. Yes it's annoying to me too. But it's probably because some of those players are not at the table. They have forgot or something. Anyway, GL to you

Yeah its annoying alright, sometimes like 4 players use their whole 1.5 minute time bank. Well dont think this is much of a problem anywhere except freerolls. So i dont see any rooms worrying aout it.

I agree , first hand it should be a fold and sit out instantly , the timebank should remain untouched and unused . When the player sits in , the timebank can be activated then

. I also have the laptop open , I might have a bath or sth else , I come later afte 5,10 or 15 Min and I see 0sec timebank lol . I think this happens if the player is at the blinds , also on mobile when I change App from poker to sth else and back to poker that happens a lot . Nowadays I try to control this on mobile , at the beginning and later throughout the tourney .

Oh absolutely!!!! This is my pet hate. Sometimes at ACR the first orbit takes several minutes

antonis32123 said:

I agree , first hand it should be a fold and sit out instantly , the timebank should remain untouched and unused . When the player sits in , the timebank can be activated then

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Thats actually a good idea. No time bank to use, until the first decision has been made. As others have said, this is mostly a problem in freerolls though, and it hardly makes sense to change the system just to make freerolls more enjoyable

mp3player said:

Don't you hate it when a tourney starts and half of the people are not there so each perso gets a 60 second time out.. What's worse is when it happens on freeroll (even though i mostly play it) i am all for timeout but i just hate it when the game starts. My suggestions is have ai see who's afk and keep them timeout until they come back. Then activate timeout after the 1st round of when cards dealt for other people.

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I agree, pokerstar should take action in these situations.