SycoSteve wrote:
The sitters are there just hoping that they luck out and can slide into the bottom money when the live players bust each other out. [Either that or they'll show up when their stack is half, or more, gone and push it all on their first hand.] It's stupid and discourteous, but there's nothing to stop it the way PokerStars -- or most other rooms -- works. [They really need to implement the AbsolutePoker/UltimateBet mechanism of removing players who have entirely sat out in a freeroll at the end of level 1.]
If you're at such a table and are not fortunate enough to have all the dead stacks to yourself, you'll have to decide how you want to play it. If there's 6 or less players, I'd say treat it as a short-handed [4- or 6-max] game and adjust accordingly. If you're stuck playing basically HU, play it like a HU game.
[There is another option, that does happen in my experience, but would be technically against the T&C of the poker room.]
If you're really unfortunate and stuck with someone who's going to try rob everyone blind by preventing anyone else from getting dead stack blinds or keeping their own blinds with a strategy of going all-in every hand, or make ridiculous raises every hand, you might just have to wait him out take your chances with a solid, big hand against them. . .
I'm hoping that when the test period is over and the league starts in July -- when PS reduces the prize pool for each game and the number of places paid -- that this will become less of a headache. . .
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