GG poker now selling time bank cards!

No people mass multi-tabling while running a bunch of software destroys a game of poker.

It feels like they have changed the pre-flop timebanks recently on GG global.

I was 1 tabling a tournament the other day and it sat me out multiple times when I got distracted for like 15 seconds even though 1 min or so in my timebank.

One of the times I had KK when I ran to feed my cat lol.

This **** is going to annoy more recs who are playing as a secondary activity to movies/games.

so I played 4 hours and about 5k hands. I think im a good test subject since I play a lot of tables heres what I learned.

1. You do gain more timebanks over time. quite alot actually. I got up to 11 16 tabling.... I can't imagine anyone will ever run out of timebanks and use this feature
2. No one is using it. I went in my transaction history and zero people used it over 5k hands. Not even recs
3. It is the first day of it and it needs to be tuned. I think they under tuned it and I expect the time banks to be more rare in the future. because if not what's the point of them?

I played completely the same except I guess I stopped time banking to balance tells . but that was just to test I see no reason to not do this in the future with so many time banks

Not a bad update for me

Something Ive seen a number of times online . So its clearly not a fluke and is used tactic.

I will raise.. a player will call relatively quickly. Then if I check to them (or vice versa) they will literally use their initial 20 seconds... then their ENTIRE time bank down to about 1 second. But then on the later streets they will snap check or snap call. Showing they are not AFK

Now I dont know if this is just designed to tilt me or something?.. because that fails too. Because If i find players are tanking too long, I simply load more tables to couter act it. For example if im playing 3 x tables. Ill just load 2 x more and concentrate on the other 4 tables where players arent currently tanking. So it literally does not affect me at all, does not tile me either... So i truely dont understand the reason for it? Because theyre clearly sitting there at their computer, fully aware they are tanking into their time bank.. So i dont get it

So this new update could actually be good. You dont need a minute to decide what to do in a 4BB pot. Also.. if they "add up" after a while too, that will also be good for the people that only occasionally use their time bank

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Ya people tank to balance their snap decisions with hard decisions. This update will have no effect on that.

There are literally zero players out there balancing the speed ot their decisions come on now.

Agreed.

I was playing on GG yesterday and noticed this. I quite like the idea if it makes nit regs play faster and the $ goes back to the players.

Very true. I like to play satellites and with the new format you can forget about thinking about a hand in more depth. So the classical game of poker is dead on GG, BUT: GG is basically introducing a different sort of poker. Call it Speed Poker, akin to Speed Chess. If you are not able to make consistently good decisions with very limited time, you f'ed. Real live example from my last satellite: I had one complicated hand, I had to think 1-2 seconds longer on each street. It cost me all my time cards, after that I had to make decisions without any time cards. And remember: the shot clock is very short in satellites.

After all, If you accept this new type of poker, maybe its a good think. After all RTA will be a smaller problem with this limited amount of time (except for people who have some kind of very sophisticated cheating solution )

i do it.... I wouldn't say its perfect balance but I cant just be snap raising all my value. online tells are a thing...

Its not 1% when you run it twice btw... thats misinfo

LOL - so clearly your one of the people that does it...

and no, it wasnt a big decision and there is no "balancing" needed. It was literally SB vs BB and a 4BB pot.. yet villain decides to use his entire time and time bank just to check with 1 second left.

The only conclusion I can come to is people do it on purpose to try and put you on tilt.. its the only logical response (and ive seen it happen multiple times so its not a one off) But as I said.. it never tilts me, because I just load more tables to counter act people taking too long

Anyway... so this new update will be good for people like me, and clearly bad for you lol

They're not doing it purposefully to put you on tilt. There's still this dinosaur level of player who think that SNE still exists and that playing 16 tables at the same time is a viable strategy, rather than actually thinking about what they are doing and getting better.

lol im sure regulars who play less tables do it much more. mass tablers don't have as much time to do it.

Like this is totally a common thing it even happens in live poker when a person is playing one table. People use time chips when they have the nuts all the time. This won't be any different. Also supernova still exists where I play 😀 I got 100% rb on the year

lol no ones time banking on purpose in a 4 bb pot that's why I flamed you originally. You were just talking paranoid nonsense . guy just had a big spot on another table and was ignoring. intentional time banking obviously only applies for bigger spots

My Thoughts:

Pros:

• 1. Increased Game Speed: The game has become faster, which is beneficial for attracting recreational players.
  
• 2. Reduced Tanking Drama: The elimination of excessive tanking is a welcome change. It can be quite frustrating to witness a player with a strong hand using their entire time bank before going all-in.
  

Cons:

• 1. Increased Costs: The additional charge of 1 big blind (bb) per time bank can be significant. It often takes time to review notes and assess opponents' ranges, which can be impacted by this cost.
  
• 2. Perceived Exploitation: There is a concern that the site is taking advantage of players by introducing extra charges, which may seem unnecessary.
  

Overall, GG Poker has established itself as the largest online poker platform, setting a benchmark that other sites are likely to follow in the near future.

Maybe GG needs to pay their ambasadors lol. Negranu and friends are asking for a raise! (this is just kidding)

That is irrelevant to a casual. They just see "MoViN.tArGeT has requested TIME". If you are doing that because you are playing 16 tables and you need to act on 15 of them before you get to the table in question, then it is absolutely deliberate because you are playing more tables than you can act on in a reasonable amount of time. Time bank activation is meant to be the exception, not the rule

It's easy to make snap decisions when no thoughts are in your head. Not saying that's you but it's a large chunk of the poker community. They just click buttons with no idea why. I do like that it'll stop people that time bank nearly every decision

Lol it's bc people are maas multi-tabling. And most tankers live aren't deep thinkers at all they're just extremely slow thinkers. If it takes someone 5 times longer to process and think about something as other people that doesn't make them a deep thinker.

There's also more information to process in a live setting. That's not to say that some of it may be down to them being slow thinkers.