Hand for Hand

[Govman6767]

I was playing party 40 ppl get paid we started going hand for hand at 50
but after they get to 40 they go back to normal till they hit 20.
I wanted to know if all the sites do this
If your going to go hand for hand why switch back to regular when you hit 20
If somone was going to stall I it would be to try to move from 40 money to 20 money.
If someone want's to stall it's their business and It should be a players job to report someone if they think they are stalling instead of making the tournament last an extra 2 hours But then again with party's TERRIBLE live help it's better they go hand for hand.

[Robbie Robb]

Generally if the money has different levels (which, in your example it sounds like 21 through 40 each received the same amount before going up at 20) and not a continuous escalation of payouts, the game WILL go HFH at each level's bubble.

Stalling once in the money usually isn't as big of a problem. Sure, you'll have ONE person, short-stacked, stalling to try to make it to the next payout, but you WON'T have the rest of people collaborating with that short-stack to make sure they make it to the next level. Once in the money, the sooner the short-stack goes out, the closer the others are to 1st place.

As I mentioned, the ONLY place I've seen stalling be an issue is in satellite tourneys where x people move on, and then ONLY where the satellite is a freeroll (such as the UB TEC Freeroll). I've played the UB WSOPVIP $5 and am playing the $5 TV qualifiers and nothing like that happens. Sure, you've got the guy with a stack of 400 chips hanging on by the fingernails to make the cut (I *know* this! ) and they will often try to stall. But once HFH starts, stalling becomes completely pointless.