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Originally Posted by arcdog
The fact that you had to wait for “specific players” to post only makes it more clear that BBA helps because those type people who constantly fail to timely post now post 2x a round instead of 9x a round and as you know, they are habitually late.
Frankly I can’t imagine what type of miserable stubborn nit would actually be so upset with BBA as to actually avoid events that contain it. This thread is testament to how irritatingly absurd two people can be. I’m glad you’ll be avoiding the Wynn because I’d rather not play with annoying people.
I think Michelle's point (though from months ago) was that the BBA does not eliminate ante collection issues, it just reduces their likelihood and concentrates them into a single hand, as you mentioned.
This is all sort of moot anyhow, since the ante-collection process is not a serial one. The dealer does not turn to each player, one at a time, and ask them for their ante. So individuals who are habitually lazy and/or clueless do not stop the process. I would agree that these type of players can be annoying to dealers and do slow things down a tiny bit. But like everything to do with the BBA debate, reality does not agree with propaganda and perception. The ante collection process does not take a great deal of time.
As for how absurd players are, I will leave it to individuals to decide what will or will not make them choose one particular event over another. There are plenty of folks who have claimed they would not play a non-BBA event. Why are they any less absurd?
For my part, I would not avoid a BBA event, if it is attractive otherwise, despite the fact that I am pretty much 100% opposed to the BBA for all of the reasons discussed in these threads. There's just no "there" there as far as BBA benefits and there are a multitude of annoyances with it that are more important to me than the arduous task of having to post an ante and sit through a 10-15 second portion of a process that consumes 2-3 minutes.
That being said, if there were a BBA event which was competing with a non-BBA event and they were close, I would likely go with the non BBA event.