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Originally Posted by Landonfan
There can't be that much value in actively pissing people off, can there? I mean, you'd think a number of these people would start spewing anyway once they realize how boring these SNGs are, and that any increased spewing you'd get from a ton of stalling wouldn't make up for the damage it does to your hourly.
I'm not arguing on marco's or anyone's behalf or anything btw, just thinking out loud.
The 'value' really kicks in when you start adding up the delay created by timing down to the maximum (what is it on Stars? 15-20 secs?) for every single decision of every single hand. Compare that to normal timing, where obvious plays (like raising on the button, making a trivial call/fold, etc.) and actions can happen in less than a second.
Eventually, the person who's timing down at every conceivable opportunity locks his opponent into a 6 hour+ engagement for whatever the buy-in is.
Unless said opponent is a multi-tabling poker reg who's spending a large continuous chunk of time in front of his PC anyway, the victim of the timing down tactic will simply give up and sit out when stacks are not significantly uneven in his favor, or he'll give up by open shoving every hand. Or occasionally he'll hang in there out of sheer spite, I guess, and his play may or may not be conditioned by low-level tilt.
Meanwhile, the professional deep stack NBI time-down artist is multi-tabling 10 of these in the same manner, has planned his schedule ahead of time (has probably organized his life around this operation), is deaf in any case to arguments about how his hourly might improve if he played normally, worships his ROI, and ruins the NBI format for everyone else. And mind-rapes people who register for these things by mistake or just to try them.