[ADBjester]

The best solution is the toughest to implement. When hand for hand implements, also go to blind levels of X hands per level. i.e. you're at Level 11 in a satellite, blinds 1000/2000+100, with 5 minutes to go in the round (10 minute rounds)... and HFH begins. The blinds will now go up every 10 hands instead of every 10 minutes... and level 11 will end after 5 more hands instead of 5 more minutes.

One can argue either for blinds to resume being timer-based when HFH ends, or for the entire balance of the tournament to be played out on a hands-basis rather than a minutes-basis. Either way, this makes stalling COMPLETELY irrelevant to strategy. People will still do it, but all it does is extend the time required to play now.

Jester