[fnurt]

This table captain phenomenon always baffled me. It's like, we're 10 random sets of pixels assigned to the same poker table on the Internet, and yet we're going to pretend we're blood brothers who all must qualify together. It's silly.

I really don't get the stalling in the Party speed tournaments either. People try to claim there's some deep strategy to stalling with 100 people to be eliminated before the money, but I have to say I just don't get it. "We can't afford to pay 2 or 3 blinds apiece while all the other tables stall," they say. Ok, but, when you pay the blinds, where does the money go? Does it fall off the table? Seems to me you would do better by playing poker, letting people accumulate chips, knocking people out which results in new money coming to the table... but what do I know?