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.

[HEwong]

well if they didnt do hand for hand.what would stop someone from using their time bank to try and get into money. and what if 2 or more people went out at the same time

[Robbie Robb]

The time bank isn't infinite. Perhaps you misunderstood what I meant. I suggest that they INCREASE the number of remaining players when they start HFH. Currently most sites are x+1 or x+2 ,where x is the cutoff. I propose that they increase this to x+y, where y=number of tables still in play. Again, this is ONLY for tourneys where top x advance regardless of chip stacks.

For cash tourneys It is fine to keep it with only 1 or 2 people as NO ONE is going to baby someone else along to keep them in the money - after all, that's money that they may be taking from you.

If two people go out on the same hand, the person with the larger chip stack prior to the hand going out finishes in the better position.