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Pet Peeves: Intentionally Slow Players and Annoying Observers

Hi all! After another work induced break, I am back!

Sadly, In the last week here, I have seen two of my personal pet peeves are still here at SpadeClub.

1) Intentionally Slow Players are a curse that affect everyone they share a table with! The inexperience (or is it fears) of slow players put the entire table at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the tournament.

SpadeClub's Slow Players ALWAYS seem to wait as long as they can to make EVERY play. They incorrectly think that having to play less hands is better somehow; when more hands offer players more opportunity to improve their Stacks. All Slow Players are adamant that they have the right to control the speed of the entire table because it is (somehow) better for them. Meanwhile, the rest of the tournament has the advantage that playing more hands offers. We need something from SC to prevent continual slow play...

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2) Annoying Observers have in the past week dropped by 2 of my Tables and just like in Forums, they have taken over the poker based thread with boring, mundane and unrelated chatter as they watch a friend play poker at the table.

Yes, I know that I can turn off these non-silent "Observers", but that doesn't (IMHO) give them the right to be offensive and abusive to actual players. The trend seems to have them annoyingly write 2 or 3 words on a line, using 4 or 5 lines to complete a sentence. This pushes any legitimate table talk by active players off the screen faster than it can be read. When anyone asks them to either complete one sentence on one line, or simply go chat on IM or Yahoo, they tend to get very abusive.

Both problems taint this fine site! Fortunately, these problems can be relieved by restricting these slow players and non-silent observers to more responsible play...

COMMENTS

POSTED BY:
Larry10001

Nov 13, 09 12:50 PM

While I understand the strategy of both fast and slow play, I also think that excessive timing out and really constand slow play is a problem that would not be tolerated at a live table. Maybe take a look at my blog on a slow play solution rule proposal that would penalize players for to many timeouts in a single tournament, let me know what you think?

POSTED BY:
BarrieOntCan

Nov 13, 09 05:22 PM

Sorry HarryJohnson I am a Donkey and I am slow. However if I slow down near the bubble. Its part of poker.

POSTED BY:
riverlover

Nov 13, 09 11:26 PM

I agree with you on the slow players.....they are so very aggravating and the more you point it out, the slower they tend to play, IF that is possible! They need to be tossed to the curv!

POSTED BY:
HarryJohnson

Nov 14, 09 11:58 PM

Slow play near the Bubble is standard play, slow play all the time is restricting everyone at the table from a good shot at the final table!

POSTED BY:
csi4csi

Nov 15, 09 06:19 PM

cut the timer 50% and get rid of the programed rng, then we can play real poker!!!!!!!

POSTED BY:
thinkingopp

Dec 20, 09 03:30 AM

Just a small quibble. It's not called slow play, it's called stalling. And personally, if all the stallers who do it just to piss other people off would go die in a fire, I would be a happy woman.

Mean, ain't I?