Blue square poker time
Category: Online Poker World
Sometimes when important decisions must be made at Blue square poker, players need a little extra time to ensure they come up with the right answers.
Every player in major live tournaments will have quite a period of time to make their decisions, due to the other players understanding this need for extra thought on important decisions.
There is no preset time allowance for any action as such, although others players can ask for a clock to be put on a player after a few minutes has elapsed. Once this clock has been called the player has 1 minute to act otherwise his hand is folded.
I feel it is right and fair that in a game where decisions can cost thousands, that there is no rigid timeframe in place in tournament play.
And the poker players are almost always very courteous about allowing several minutes before calling a clock.
One difference you will find in online play, on sites such as bluesquarepoker.com, is that no such rules exist and that is a shame I think.
Each player has their own clock, and on some sites, such as www.bluesquarepoker.com these can run down in a matter of 30 seconds - 1 minute depending on the site.
The sites should take notice of this, because it isn’t exactly a very strong incentive to play high stakes poker on their site. It simply isn’t worth the risk if you feel you are going to be bullied into making a bad decision, because you haven’t got sufficient time to contemplate everything fully.
Pokerstars is in my opinion, leading the way in combatting this to some degree with a ‘time bank’ where you can use extra time for important decisions. I still feel the feature could be improved however.
Other sites should look at this problem in more depth, it is of course also important not to inconvenience other players, as there is always a fine line with such matters.