Poker Players - the 'sitout guys'

[TheBeautifulGame]

Does anyone else but me have a serious problems with the guys that sitout for the remainder of the game when they have lost say half their chips or so. Usually, you would say that this isn't a problem, there blinds go in and all there are doing is simply losing chips/money.

However, on quite a few occasions, I have seen people sitting out when their is a few people remaining in the sit n go or tournament in the hopes that they can get some kind of cash reward by default and I have seen this tactic work.

I understand people can sit out if they want (I've obviously done it myself for a genuine reason) You have to leave your comp for some reason or another but when it's done in a way that I have noted above (or many other ways that I have noticed) it's really sneaky and annoys me.

Anyone else hate what I call the 'sitout guys' or am I overacting

[smarmy]

It annoys me that when you get to the final table and 5 of the 9 seats are sitting out.

[TheBeautifulGame]

It annoys me that when you get to the final table and 5 of the 9 seats are sitting out.

Yes, that is really annoying. In fairness, that usually only happens to me in FREEROLLS. Once, I was moved to a table where I was the only one not sitting out. I just kept raising but when the blinds are 20/40, it starts to annoy you after a while. I was glad when a couple of the sitout guys were moved and active players took their place.

However, like you said, you reach the final table and 5 of the 9 players are sitting out. Lets say, there was 5 allotted winners. That means that if one sitout guy goes broke and 3 active players go broke, some of the sitout guys are winning $$$ for doing nothing. It just annoys me.

[geebert74]

I honestly do hate it... But I do love to see when they sit out and they are one away from the money and they lose... I laugh my ass off because they do it on purpose...

[TheBeautifulGame]

Yes, they most defiently do it on purpose. Once though, we were on a table where ONE gut sat out. He had a few thousand chips with the blinds at 500/600 or so. There was 6 remaining including the sitout guy. There was 5 places to be paid. We all agreed to keep folding until his chips were gone. What happens, the guy steadily loses chips but once he was down to about 3000 or 4000 he pops back, LOL. Thank god he went all in after a few hands and lost.

And yes, that ALWAYS brings a smile to my face.

[OmgUrMom]

if you hate this you obviously have no idea how to play poker lol.

I will take as many sitting out players as I can, its a goddamn godsend to even have one player sitting out.

[TheBeautifulGame]

if you hate this you obviously have no idea how to play poker lol.

I will take as many sitting out players as I can, its a goddamn godsend to even have one player sitting out.

It all depends on the situation/game. It just does not seem fair that a guy can sit out when there is less than 5 people playing and receive a cash reward, not physically playing the game for over an hour.

At the beginning of a tourney, yeah I want guys to be sitting out because It's easier and the guy has no hope of lasting the whole tournament sitting out. Again, it depends on the situation. You can't deny though that people use 'sitting out' as an advantage and at times, it works.

[keyboarding]

All you can hope for is you are playing with intelligent players. Last time there were players sitting out at the table, we just blinded them out as quickly as possible.

[TheBeautifulGame]

All you can hope for is you are playing with intelligent players. Last time there were players sitting out at the table, we just blinded them out as quickly as possible.

Yes, as stated above, I have been in a situation where this has happened. However, the majority of players are stupid. The amount of times, I have been in a situation with 4 players remaining (3 placed to be paid) One guy is down to a very small stack and everyone is pretty equal. You see of the 'bigger' players going all in preflop. Why the hell would you take that risk when you can just wait for the small stack player to go bust??

People can be quite stupid.

[keyboarding]

You see of the 'bigger' players going all in preflop. Why the hell would you take that risk when you can just wait for the small stack player to go bust??

Well, that actually makes a ton of sense. The big stacks know that the smaller stacks are waiting for the player sitting out to be blinded out, so they will likely lay down almost every hand that isn't a monster. The blinds that late in a tournament will be worth stealing and even if they get caught one time, not only do they still have a chance to win with live cards/bad beat, but they probably have enough chips to afford to take the hit.

The worst thing is when you have chip leaders who do nothing but fold when there are short stacks at the table. I understand they want to preserve their chips/lead, but I've seen 10,000 chip leaders folding to 800 chip all ins with 200 big blinds. Just bad poker.

[poker_dummy101]

unbelievable

[OmgUrMom]

the posts in here quickly explain why poker is still profitable

[whatsgood5]

Stop being poor and play higher stakes

[mrmarket]

This is easily exploitable so just take advantage of their stupidity and profit instead of complaining.

[excel]

Alot of times in freerolls or low stakes tourneys you can beat hundreds of people just by sitting out for the first half hour to hour. I've made final table at least three times at bodogs 1k freeroll tourney just sitting out for the first hour coming back with 600 chips.

[MadTiger]

It is a strategy. It is usually unsuccessful, or at least non-optimal, but within the rules.