1. No, fish love different. IDK what would make u think its the other way around.

2. i highly doubt that 95% of players are playing 1 table at a time (i could be wrong.) On top of that its really not "hella inefficient." its a small inconvenience compared to having to wait til 8 tourneys end to go pee. Also, this could be worked around in ways already stated like if a tourney starts less than 15 or 20 minutes before a break then it skips the first break.

3. probably true, but a small price to pay imo

Even in the highly unlikly situation sites adapted this (i would say less than 1% chance) sites would never schronize with each other. That is just bad buisness.

Sure stars would want to line them up so you can play at FTP too


Also remember a break normally only starts when the last hand finishes so are you going to have to wait for the last hand of every tournament to finish?

Does this means stars will no longer be able to pause a tournament for deals?

How do headsup tournaments/shootouts fit into this?


I really don't think you have thought through all the possible downsides of trying to fit the breaks at the same time.

I think this fits in the if it ain't broke don't fix it. There are other things that need to be implemented first and this is a truely massive project for a site when they have more important things to do.

it may be much higher imo.

Really? At MTTs? Especially considering that most of the players are playing low stakes? Like I said I may be wrong cuz i got out of MTTs awhile ago (partially because of no synched breaks), but I dont know how anyone could play one MTT at a time and not get bored silly, let alone 95% of people.

your assumption is not uncommon. however the fact remains that the number of pros and multi-tablers is probably almost statistically insignificant vs. the "regular" players.

yea,
all of this,I didn't really think it through.You are right.

Just curious about something. I don't play tournaments, and I'm wondering if it is it that -EV to have to sit out a couple of hands, especially early on? So much so that people choose to play less tournaments? I would think people would have any needed food ready to go, and really a quick break for a leak should be <2 minutes.

It's a sincere question; I really don't know. Of course it would be better not to have to sit out, I'm just wondering if it's so bad that any of you play less tourneys because of it.

We dont need every single tournament to stop at the exact same time.. If the last hand was dealt at XX:54 with the next hand being dealt at 00:00 then the vast majority of players will get a good 4-5 mins of break time.



It wouldnt effect this at all



I cant see any problem.




But the system is broken right now!!!

If you are playing more than one table you can not take a break without having to sit out so you are either costing yourself $$$ or suffering the impact on your health.

so basically breaks will no longer be at the change of level? Is that what you are saying?

well, it depends a lot on the volume and length of time that you're playing. if you're playing a high volume of mtts and going all day, then you're going to be in a high blind situation on at least one table a pretty good ammount of the time, making taking a break not an option.

i play a lot less (pretty much 0) tournaments primarily because of the ability to sit in and out of cash games without wrecking my earn. there's obv lots of other pros/cons between the two formats, but this one is so big that it makes it not worth the time investment of even calculating your expectation in tournaments if you're already making a good earn at cash games.

I will move my roll and play exclusively on the first major site to offer synchronized breaks. Looking at the poll, I have a feeling I wouldn't be the only one.

Any issues are easily solved with a little planning. To anyone crying about having a break 15 minutes into a tournament, the obvious solution is to tweak the start times of tournaments where necessary.

That makes sense, TY.

I disagree that 10 minutes is hella inconvenient. 5 minutes doesn't give you much time to do anything other then take a piss and grab a cold drink from the fridge.

If you ever go deep in a tournament and have been playing for a few hours you might want time to make something to eat, or enough time to brew some coffee and still have a few minutes left before you are starting again.

I like this idea of synchronized breaks... I'd also be in support of a button that pops up for everyone during break that you can click if you are ready for the break to be over, and if everyone in the tournament clicks that they are ready, then the break will be over for that tournament.

fwiw, the person you quoted is saying that a break 10 minutes into an mtt would be inconvenient, not a 10 min long break.

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