I don't. I am in full favor of shot clocks. In fact, I would make tournaments with a 10-15 second clock. However giving TD's more power to make subjective decisions is not good for the game. There are too many td's who take advantage of their power and make decisions based on personal feelings.

If the WSOP made a 10 sec shot clock tournament, a lot of the recs would have an absolute blast. They are there to play hands. It makes sense for the WSOP too. Quicker tournaments means lower operating cost.

Lololol

'Ah, Mr Cristos, given the opinions you've expressed I'm afraid your money's no good here... or at any other WPT event, ever.

Goodbye.'

EZ game.

Hope he doesnt ever try to play online where you can actually play in more than 1 game at a time. Could cause his head to asplode.

Thought he was talking about PLO for a second. What a donk. Bet he rims doc sands

That's why I could never be a "pro", idiots taking minutes preflop irks the crap out of me. I played a few wpt events when they were on the east coast and there were always 1 or 2 guys who waste so much time for nothing.

Maybe they try to build their egos but it's just a joke.

lol cristos sounds like a loser fish

Who is Cristos and why should any of us care?

What is life and why should any of us care?

This guy is a clown.

Anyone that's against a shot clock is an idiot. Basically, if everyone played as slow as the people that are against a shot clock, tournament poker would play 10 hands an hour once antees kicked in. Well maybe not, but you know what I mean.

Just because someone things a lot doesn't entitle them to take as much time as they desire. Hurry the **** up and act on your hand

Couldn't have said it better myself. Try to imagine playing like $150 tournaments and watching people take 5 minutes to act in level 2. Crazy.

While being stared down by Jessie Sylvia and Timoshenko.....

he is a very famous artist, best known for the "umbrellas" and the "Wrapped Reichstag". I guess since his wife passed away, he is into poker (but still controversial)

If this is a freeroll that was won as part of his prize then arguably they shouldn't change the rules at this late stage. Otherwise clocks are good.

Apart from that, having thought more about preflop should mean he acts quicker not slower, like chess players rattling off the first ten moves from their openings book in the first couple of minutes, unless I have it wrong and Tiffany Williamson has the biggest tree in the game.

Pretty much this. Another quality chainsaw thread

The TOC isn't a freeroll (if you won a WPT this year you're automatically entered because the $15k was taken out of the prizepool). If you've won a WPT previously, you can buy into the event for $15k.

No, Navi - YOU listen!
I need more time - I'm still counting the branches FFS!

The easy solution is just make all tournaments shot clock because while yes, there are complex decisions in poker, determining what your UTG opening range is 200bb deep shouldn't be one of them that takes over 30 seconds. The only variables are 'how deep am I effectively and what % of hands am I opening in this position at this table' and 'how engaged are the players to act behind me/does anyone look particularly strong or weak'. Analysing those two things should never take more than 30 seconds.

If you're facing a turn or river raise, sure, take a little more time but the idiots in live poker who tank in an unraised pot utg+1 and then fold 200bb deep wasting 3 minutes are a cancer on live poker.

To cater for the actual difficult decisions, everyone gets 3 (or whatever number) buttons to throw out for a 1min time extension if they have a real decision and once they're gone they're gone, or you get one back every 6 levels or whatever. If people waste them hollywooding then that's their business and they have 30 seconds to act when they get raised on the river.

Timoshenko is also slow AF and he entered a SHR at the Aussie Millions not realising there was a shot clock. And to everyone's surprise, probably even his own, he won the event!

24 seconds shot clocks for the win.

Kobe for the river beater.....Kaboom

shot clock doesn't sound right to me...act clock maybe

gametree..lol

It is funny how many of these poker pros with great math skills can't put together a proper English sentence.

A wild comma appears.

its a sad day when the top tier Poker series feel the need to start implementing shot clocks imo

At this point you know, their is no 'spirit of the game' in poker. Or heck just a little proper etiquette.. Left with a bunch of egotistical, know it all, pompous, no good ********..... folks. I know not everyone is, but really when the series feel the need to do this its become a more and more pressing issue.

honestly you know the tournaments are being run into the ground by angle-shooting, soft playing, colluding scumbags when the tourney directors of the major series have to start implementing 'shot clocks'... wtf for that reason, Cristos (honestly literally never heard of this dude) you can go f yourself. bc rumor has it, your one of them time banking clowns. And justifies it with, "I'm standardizing my timing tells' YAWN.

Just make a decision, and act on it, no one really needs, nor wants to sit there and watch you hollywood. Or even worse when they hollywood, or clock it down, and then fold lol..

Threads like this make me realize the 'spirit of the game' doesn't exist, and you are playing in a dawg eat dawg whirl.

^^ mfw when ppl who never played bigger then 2/5 talking about how poker was in old days as if they played.....