[Benholio]

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In order to speed up tournaments, I believe hand for hand should be done in batches of five hands. IOW, each table will play five hands before stopping to wait for other tables to finish their five hands. Order of finish will be determined by the hand # in which a player was eliminated rather than by time of elimination.
Has this been suggested before?
Thoughts?
At the very least this would speed up the play a little bit.

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I dunno, lets say we are on the bubble and extremely shortstacked (2xBB). There is one more shortstack on another table. Our table is playing faster and is on hand #4, while his table is on #2. Its my turn to act on the big blind, I'd really like to know what happens to the other guy before making my decision. It would be be in our advantage to stall to not get ahead of the other table to avoid this from happening.

I think they could stand to shorten the criteria for H2H play, though. Instead of doing it when you are x number of players from the money/final table, chop that number down a bit.