All in announce if you need to leave an MTT

[murphyz]

I try never to sit down at an MTT unless prepared to stick it out, whether that's getting outed in the first ten minutes or lasting 5 hours until the end. Perhaps an exception to this would be in a freeroll, but even then it would just seem rude.

However, we probably all face a time when something comes up and we need to leave the table, not being able to just post/fold until you return - but actually exit for good.

What is the etiquette for leaving, chipless, if this situation arises?

Would you go-all in on each hand until you lose it all?
Do you state to the room you need to leave and will thus be going all-in regardless of what you are dealt?
Do you tell the room what your hand is before going all-in so they know what they are up against?
Should you do it pre-flop or let them see up to the river?

Cheers

Mxx

[mike4066]

I've made the all-in announcement before and had someone yell at me for "chip dumping" to some lucky guy.

He said that the best way to do it would be to sit out and post/fold and let myself be blinded out.

Seemed pretty fair to me after I thought about it.

[FlyingSaucy]

Yes! Never announce you have to leave and push all in. First off, some people won't believe you and are afraid to call, especially if they have a smaller stack than you. A lot of times they will just fold around to you and you will have to do it again on the next hand. It is rude to make a big scene and screw up people's chip stacks when you leave. Instead, the only way you can do it is by leaving the table and let the computer fold everything for you.

This puts the players immediately to your right at a slight advantage because they can steal your blinds without contest, but it is better than dumping your whole stack in one big turd drop on some lucky bastard.

[DavSimon]

I agree...click away and let the computer post and fold for you - the only really fair way. If you are further along with a pretty sizeable stack you may get lucky and post/fold you way into the money and at least get your buy-in back

[a500lbgorilla]

Don't play in a tourny unless you can stick it out.

-'rilla

Would you go-all in on each hand until you lose it all?
Do you state to the room you need to leave and will thus be going all-in regardless of what you are dealt?
Do you tell the room what your hand is before going all-in so they know what they are up against?
Should you do it pre-flop or let them see up to the river?

None of the above. You sit out and be blinded away, that, I believe, is the proper etiquette.

[dbs]

i was in this situation i time ago in a 10$ torney with 200 people and i got a call so i had to leav from home in 20 minutes the thing i did was going all in i think 7 times in a row and the funny thing was 3 times i was called and now i was chip leader and had to leav, there was about 100 people left so i logged out and went away in the evening i checked and just buy the computer folding for me i ended up ITM i think it was about 11$+.
so that could be a funny way to do it.

[LeFou]

Online it seems real easy: click away and see if you luck out ITM.

People do this all-in every time crap at APL;it's

very

annoying.

They're always chuckling and saying "hehe... I'm just trying to leave" as people fold to them.

If you actually want to leave (a B&M tourney) and not just be a dick, check/call then fold on the river until your chips are gone. probably 2 or 3 hands.

[DaNutsInYoEye]

None of the above. You sit out and be blinded away, that, I believe, is the proper etiquette.

I totally disagree with you all. Since when do you owe it to your opponents to distibute your chips evenly to them? If you buy into a tourney or a ring game it's your right to do whatever the hell you want with them as long as you aren't intentionally dumping them off to one specific person. If you go all-in your opponent has to still beat your hand. How is that unfair/unethical? This is assuming you haven't announced that you have to leave. If you have then it's a different story.

[LeFou]

IMO it's not a matter of whether you have the right to do this. Of course you do.

It's a matter of whether you're intentionally being a clown, trying to piss people off to the benefit of no one.

Now, if there's one thing LeFous do the bestest, it's clowning around -- but strategic clowning is very different from "I don't care about this game so I'm going to just muck everything up and make it more like roulette."

Interlude: this happened to me at an APL not 2 hours ago. This guy is murmuring about how he wants to go home and raises 4BB in the dark. I'm looking at Slick so I go to 12BB. He looks at his cards and pushes with a ragged ace, pairs his rag, and I'm out.

This is not a bad beat story. I drank a beer and got on with my life. Like I said, you have every right to act like this. But people who care about poker are not going to like it. You're basically saying "isn't this cool? I can be a dick!"

Wow. Cool.

[dbs]

leFou i totaly agree that it is annoying when somebody goes all in all the time and chating about how bad he wants to leav. when i made this thing abov i never chated anything that i was to quit i just went all in. and for first two times nobody called then somebody called and i had rags but still won than the big stacks thought they wanted a piec of me but they had bad luck sinc i had pretty ok cards.
i mean if you are to leav anyway u could have some short fun but i would not announce on the chat that i´m about to leav.