"Sitting Out" as a strategy?

Poor4ever · 06-26-2006, 08:50 AM

I don't know why it bothers me but I do not like it when ppl "sit out" as a strategy. Last night, I was playing in a freeroll where there are 10 players on the table and 8 of them were sitting out. It was a new poker site "Celeb Poker" that I was trying out for the first time, so I don't know if this is standard practice at this site or it was a fluke. The disadvantage to me was that I could not really get my pot to grow since everyone was sitting out and it was like playing head to head with the only other person that was playing with me. How can this truly work to someone's advantage?

itsmedaniel · 06-26-2006, 02:03 PM

hehe, i agree, i really hate playing at a 10 person table when actually only 4 or 5 are playing the game. Why not play the game and have fun instead of focusing on winning that one dollar for 18th place..
u know what i mean?

DangerRock · 06-28-2006, 04:40 PM

Give me table of 9 sitouts and I am a happy camper.

That is just the breaks sometimes with new sites, especially with freerolls. People register then forget about the tournament.

I honestly want to kick myself when I miss a tournament. Whether I forget to sign up or get logged off do to malfunctions of my internet.

Trap_Play · 06-28-2006, 05:56 PM

It can definately hurt your chip count early,and force you to play a different style of play then you want to in the early stages,it truely favors those that like to play with a short table.Playing more hands early on seems to open me up for more bad beats playing verse those fish that dont have a clue...and call you down with anything.

tehnat · 06-28-2006, 05:59 PM

i wouldn't call it a strategy since you could be missing some premium hands, sitouts could be people who have multiple tables going on at one time and dont want to keep up with the one table they are sitting at.

Deco · 06-30-2006, 04:50 PM

Its brilliant when this happens
I make an agreement with the other players to take turns stealing blinds

BirdShow · 06-30-2006, 05:37 PM

it's the early stages that irritate me. Some joker plays a couple hands of bingo and gets lucky. they get a good size chip stack and sit. guys who sit with the short stack late in a tourney where the blinds become a factor are cool in my book. with that being said, let me contradict myself a little. in huge multi table tourneys with thousands of people, part of my strategy is to make sure that i sit out. when the cards START letting chasers win and dealing out bad beats i sit. i think it helps keep my mind fresh and combats the fatigue and sometimes monotonous game play.

mama66 · 06-30-2006, 06:46 PM

I think sitters bother me the most towards the end of a tourney. I can't believe the gall of some people, they will get to the final table and then sit out to coast into the money. So the others at the table have to try to wait out the sitout in order to beat them instead of playing poker against them, like it should be. If I play a game long enough to get to the final table, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it out!

bettybet · 06-30-2006, 07:52 PM

I don't mind all sitters and i clean up on blinds LMAO

joshfunk · 07-01-2006, 07:55 PM

cause its a freeroll i never saw sitouts in a cash tournament besides the ten cent ones on pokerstars maybe 1 or 2 i saw in a 3.30 at pokerstars. I think they sign up more than one name on two different computers maybe?