Sometimes you might want to build suspense by making another player wait to see what your move will be, but recently I came across a player that waits as long as they possibly can every time they have to make a move, even when it’s simply folding pre flop. Every time it’s their turn, everyone has to sit there while they wait until it’s a split second before they’d time out before hitting a button, no matter whether folding, checking, calling, betting or raising. Each time it’s their turn, play stops dead while they make the whole table wait. It’s not a slow connection or playing too many games at once as they reply immediately to mock anyone that complains or tells them to hurry up.
What do you think of a person that uses this strategy of deliberately holding up play every single time they can so as to make every other player as frustrated and annoyed as possible?
It happens here and cash games:(—These ppl. i think are miserable and hate life, so they try and make us miserable 2…Just have patience and try and felt them:)
I think they are misapplying a reasonable strategy, which is to be consistent with your timing to avoid giving off tells. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to fold—you should always just fold as soon as you decide to do so.
Yes, it’s a reasonable strategy to wait, and sometimes right to the last few seconds, but this is not waiting for a reasonable time, it’s waiting until the last split second every single time, it would be after the reminder ‘bells’, a split second before be forced to sit out, no matter what their play may be. I know people use things like this to put players on tilt, but this person takes it to a ridiculous extreme, spoiling the game for anyone unfortunate enough to be sharing a table with them.
Agree
Sorry, your wrong–these ppl. are just mean—they even say it all the time (cash chat) that they love pissing ppl. off… Now the ppl. who use the clock awww different (slow, fast etc. and only play at one table) i learned to read pretty good but not going to tell them that:)----in a casino you can get a read on MANY players (hand, face movements etc. ) so online you got to adapt.
Sometimes I use up the tank because I am playing 2 tables, but I won’t tank every hand doing that. Sometimes I genuinely need the time to make a decision or to figure out my sizing, but of course again that will only be one hand out of every few.
Once in a blue moon I will tank with nuts just to make Villain think I’m making a tough decision.
The only time that I deliberately tank every hand is on the bubble of MTT with more than one table still running, and the only reason that I do this is because Replay (mindbogglingly!!) does not have hand-for-hand feature.
If Villain is tanking every hand and it’s not an MTT bubble situation, yea, he’s just being a dick.
I have seen this strategy used by players now and then, there was one in the tourney I just played.
Pretty sure it’s to annoy players into playing poorly, generally it doesn’t work, usually they’re out before too long and the rest of the table is overjoyed, lol.
Occasionally I’ll have reasons to tank, for those that think it works to cause poor play are usually poor themselves, perhaps it causes other poor impatient players to play lousy.
Have a good day and enjoy the game.
Hi Dave, 
This type of play is contrary to house rules and is mentioned specifically:
Community Playbook - Replay Poker :
Gamesmanship
- Time Clock - Players are entitled to use the clock provided to them on Replay Poker. Please do not react rudely if others are considering their strategy, including spamming “zzz” in chat. However, staff may investigate if players are consistently and intentionally trying to disrupt the flow of play.
I recommend flagging the player and reporting them to staff/moderators.
Could you post hand number(s)?
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
I do this all the time on and off you have to in order to have some sort of mystique in replay. Usually you get a full 60 seconds a hand in NORMAL cash AND online games so 10 seconds to call pre-flop is RIDICULOUS. They need to extend the time to 15 seconds or keep it at 10 seconds pre-flop and 30 seconds post flop with a time bank if they really wanna up their game. Playing the way we play on replay is completely unrealistic to real life sadly due to their time bank effect.
I encounter this all the time on coin poker. If you ever use that site be very wary. You just have to play by the rules on Replay: Players have every right to use the measily 8 secondish time clock, if you have a problem, just report it to the staff!!!
For what it’s worth, a player gets 20 seconds for each round of betting in a regular speed tournament, then just 10 seconds per round in a turbo.
You should just reread your sentence; We’re talking real BOILER PLATE Poker here. For those turbos and those SNG, the timing should be all different as well. This is what is very off with replay.
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind if I strike this again with that same player, but I’m not really a reporting kind of guy, brought up in Australia in the 70s and 80s not to be a Dibba Dobba! (Hence me not naming the person here, or even their sex although some people may know whom I’m talking about, as I haven’t come across anyone else taking it that far yet, and I’m on here playing for several hours each (Aus time) night. ) It was very annoying to all at the time though, and the very next day a tournament started and I found myself at table with the same person doing the same thing pre-flop on the first hand. Rather than going through that aggravation again I went all in on rags to knock myself out of the tournament, but left a chat message saying why and warning the table about this person’s strategy of deliberately peeing (I used a different term starting with P and got a warning) everyone off.
Since then, I have not come across them in a tournament, so it’s not really a problem, but I thought it might be interesting to get other player’s views and thoughts on people using this strategy to that extreme and start a discussion within the community.
I completely understand not wanting to be a dibba dobba (looked it up although I got the gist), I just try to think about all the other players having to endure that behavior. There is a reason it is specifically mentioned in the playbook and when that kind of antisocial behavior continues it makes things worse for everyone involved. You even got yourself eliminated from a tournament to avoid experiencing that again, and felt that it was annoying enough to bring up here. Hopefully someone else reported that player and it has been dealt with. If not, and you come across them doing it again, please report them and think of yourself not as a dibba dobba but as a superhero 
protecting us from the evil villain, 
I report someone for this every time he comes to my table and a rep was even on the same table and she told me he was allowed to do this and she (the rep) reported me and i got a warning…this person does it deliberately every table and it is total BS…i found if a rep is a friend of those violating the rules they take their side and i get the warnings…
I’m not a reporting kind of guy either, for me it’s really a quite rare thing at least where I play.
It’s most certainly annoying, but I just shrug it off and find that it’s giving me more time to decide what I’m going to do. Yesterday, the player was just right of me so that worked out pretty well for giving me more time. The player didn’t make the money, but I did 
There is one player (not who you’re talking about because he doesn’t chat) who times out every single hand unless he wants to raise or bet. Then it’s instant. The second that hand is over, he times out for another stretch until time to raise. It’s frustrating and rude.
I did think his 8 seconds was for riding a bull, not the clock here:).
Yep, i know who you are talking about.