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Originally Posted by borg23
Completely disagree. It's tourney grinders pulling this crap. Rec players aren't sitting there for 5 mins to act to get some minor pay jump.
OK, I will defer to your experience on this one because I honestly just haven’t seen this situation very often, but I also don’t really play any high stakes tournaments and have never played a tournament that uses time banks.
Typically, I haven’t seen serious stalling over minor pay jumps because it just wouldn’t be that effective. Once you are in the money, the field is either small enough that a player in unlikely to bust during the time you are stalling within a single hand….or the field is still large enough that the number of players listed on the tournament clock is unlikely to be accurate.
I certainly see people tighten up close to to a pay jump, but not literally stalling in the middle of hand they’re playing.
I do think what Brad did in the hand in question was unprofessional and embarrassing, and shows he’s still playing higher than he’s really comfortable with for the sake of getting YouTube views. In this case, I’m guessing the fact that he had a bunch of time banks essentially gave Brad the permission to act badly where he wouldn’t have tried to pull this in an untimed tournament.
Is it possible to call the clock on a player in a time bank tournament, or are they always allowed to tank as long as they want if they have the time banks to pay for it?