Hand for Hand

[Robbie Robb]

UB does it as well. Personally, I think they should change the way they do it for some tourneys however.

The tourneys in question are the qualifier type where x people move on to the next tourney. For this example, let's use 50. So as soon as 50 are left, the tourney ends after that hand. When it gets down to 51 or 52, the game starts going hand-by-hand. The problem is that there are 6 tables still in play at this point. In an effort to keep everyone alive at any particular table, the players will often slow down play in hopes that other tables will go out, thus keeping all their table's players in.

The solution is simple: Start playing hand-by-hand when there are a number of people above x remaining where x is equal to the number of tables in play. In the example above, HFH would start when 56 people remain in the tournament. Since every table has a short stack, it shouldn't be too much of a problem AND there would be absolutely NO benefit in delaying the speed of the game.