Is this guy angle shooting...?

[Texter]

We start a NLHE tourney with 15 players, blinds go up every 22 minutes. It eventually gets down to 3 handed and the blinds go up. The chip leader sets the timer...I look over a minute later and see the timer is at 14 minutes. Being the short stack, I ask him what's going on. He says, "since we're 3 handed, I figured we could speed it up a little"

So what would you do?

[smoore]

I would respectfully disagree and ask that the timer be set correctly. Explain that it gives him too much of an advantage over you.

If I did that it would be an angle, he may just not realize what he's doing to you.

[jojobinks]

give him the benefit of the doubt, and explain it calmly. i think you want to give him a chance to back down gracefully.

[Fins]

Ask him wtf? w/o asking [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] I'd keep it at 22 min unless you're in hurry or want to shorten it. If he wants to speeds things up offer a chop.

It's in his favor but you'd have to make the angle shooting call.

- Fins

[Stew]

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We start a NLHE tourney with 15 players, blinds go up every 22 minutes. It eventually gets down to 3 handed and the blinds go up. The chip leader sets the timer...I look over a minute later and see the timer is at 14 minutes. Being the short stack, I ask him what's going on. He says, "since we're 3 handed, I figured we could speed it up a little"

So what would you do?

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Tell him speed it up my ass and reset the fng timer to 22 minutes. He may not even be doing it on purpose, but if he is you will surely get resistance. Whose running this tourney and why aren't they putting a stop to it?

[Accident]

At the tourney I play on wed nights the host does this routinely. Blinds go up if he's tall stacked, and never budge when he's short. If he busts out, they go up like clockwork! I eliminated that bullshit at my game by using Tournament Director on my laptop. "it's outta my control boyz the computer says blinds go UP!!" Beep, beep, beep, beep, 250/500. haha
Accident [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
...and yes it's angle shooting.

[wingsfan]

How lame. Do people still play in his game when he so obviously adjusts the rules to suit him at the time? I would think you'd lose players in a hurry that way.

[vai777]

Take the timer and smash him in the face with it. Its an unfair advantage for him and if he was a real player he wouldnt resort to that kind of tactic.

[smoore]

I have an idea, Accident... next time he's short and the blinds stop stand up and say "ok, I'm done, lemme cash out!" Obviously he'll say something about it being a tournament or some such. Then you sit back down and growl, "Well, the f'in TIMER better start going again then!" You could also bring your laptop along [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Lottery Larry]

Do "real players" smash people in the face with timers over a disagreement?

You're scaring me