Re: Does stalling late in tournies actually do anything for ya?
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I saw the smartest use of selective stalling in a tournament recently.
The tournament was right on the bubble, one until the money. On another table, a small stack in the big blind was facing a call of his remaining 100 chips (after posting) into a pot of over 2000. Pot odds made the call very tempting.
However, the guy was smart. He waited until the action was done on all the other tables. He saw that another person had gone out on another table and promptly folded, making it into the $$.
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Why was that smart? If another player had already busted, he was ITM whether he lost the hand or not, right? When they are not on the same table, their stacks at the beginning of the respective hands doesn't matter, as the other player was knocked out first - so he passed a pot with 20:1 pot odds..
I never stall, I hate people doing it - but as said, it's useful for fish, as they will lose less money. So it's just a part of their strategy - don't blame them, blame the poker rooms that allow stalling because they're not playing HTH on the bubble.
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