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will there ever be a time bank on sky or are we stuck with a blue line?
without the time bank i always feel too concerned about getting timed out to really think about hand ranges.
until we do see a time bank (if we do), anyone have any advice about thinking of the opponents range without getting too concerned of that timer running out
until we do see a time bank (if we do), anyone have any advice about thinking of the opponents range without getting too concerned of that timer running out
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is their any way you can set the time to look exactly like it looks when others are doing something (a blue bar going round the alias)?
Making decisions faster, putting people on ranges faster etc, is something that will come with time and experience. There are plenty of people on Sky (me included) who can comfortably play 10 tables and not run out of time so it is very possible, it's just a case of practice. Maybe just take a step back with the tables, if 6 is pushing it for you, try 4 for a while and no doubt you'll get to a point where you're so comfortable that you start to think 'god I'm sat here bored waiting for something to do' then you know you can add another 1 or maybe 2, and just move it up slowly.
the difficulty i find here is you see a blue bar getting short and it's not long before you begin to rush concerned about the timer.
on cash it's not that much of an issue because the tactic there is just consistantly wait for them premium hands, in an MTT you need to take greater risks and as i saw when i exited with that AK my mind was was simply thinking things like QQ and 1010 would fold AA is 3bet preflop, so just defend from flush draws and i just got too concerned about timing out that i forgot about the chip to pot ratio and his chip stack aswell as KJ JJ and the sets from flop.
the fact it's a great community i would hate to leave this one but i'm thinking i might move over and make that other one my main site and just use this one as fun.
As lambert states maybe your playing to many tables and you cant focus enough there are many players who can multi table no problem only time and thing a time bank would be of any bonus is final tables of the bigger mtt tournies otherwise id say there pointless.
It then gives a bit of extra breathing room at that inevitable point where you get two tough spots simultaneously and as you finish thinking through a hand on table 1, are currently left to instinct-click a button on table 2 rather than consider where you're at.
Of course, to offset any minor inconvenience to recs, you could offset this with a reduction in 'normal' decisions from 15secs to 10secs and speed up the overall game.
Most of the problems people face is clicking buttons without a plan for later streets or actions by opponents. For example 3b or 4b without knowing what your doing if opponents raises you. I think while a timebank would help in certain spots, the number of times it would be of benefit would be outweighed by timebanking at bubble time (even when its H4H!) and people adding in tables as they have a timebank and slowing down tables by constantly using their timebank for mundane decisions.
A time-bank would only aid multi-table grinders or those who deliberately stall. Cash games, tournament bubbles and DYMs would all be negatively affected.
I could see an argument at nosebleed stakes perhaps, but for the vast majority of games played on Sky Poker there is absolutely no need for a time-bank in my opinion. The current blue bar is always enough time for me.
Would definitely say no for cash games though.
Yea hence the reason i play on sky? it has no "timebank" people would take the pi ss constantly use it and it would slow the games down way to much , If there is many players who 10+ tabling who can manage the clock as it is then im sure those who 1/2 table can easily cope.
Only time the time bank should be introduced if ever is for the final table mains which still wouldnt be for my benefit but for those who it may help but to be added on cash tables would be terrible indeed.
Yea they may be usefull for mtt final table eg but for cash id hope they were never added.
You gotta imagine if it was a 30 second time bank on top of the original 15 seconds and you got more than 1 player using it per hand on a 6 max it would be an utter nightmare theres just no reason to need more than 15 seconds to make a decision in cash maybe for mtt in the very late stages but besides that just no need.
Fwiw you only get 10 secs added per hour so it's not like everyone is tanking for 30+ secs every hand.
Would like to see something similar here...
this is probably the perfect way of having a time bank in MTTs and it cold be only allowed to get used post flop that way people are going to be forced to waste chips for the sake of letting the timer drop.
think of it like this most sports including football now have technolegy to help out with very tough decisions and in sports where it's common such as cricket they only allowed 2 challenges.
so 30 seconds through the whole hour and only allowed to be used post flop as you will have wasted chips yourself, so those who take an MTT seriously will consider it stupid to limp in and them who do limping frequently are already consistantly causing the time to go down by as long as a minute.