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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6783920, member: 397965"] As others have said, the concept of tanking is kind of mixed up with the concept of stalling here. Tanking means taking a long time, because you are unsure about your decision. This can sometimes be annoying for other players, but its a legitimate part of the game. The time bank is there for a reason, and if you never use it before making a big decision, you will end up making more mistakes. Stalling is something entirely different. Stalling is dragging out time, even though you know perfectly well, what your decision is going to be, which is usually to fold. Most commonly when you have a junk hand preflop, which you are never going to play, but instead of folding it right away, you run the clock down. This can be used to gain a small advantage near the bubble in a multitable tournament, because it increase the likelyhood, someone will bust at another table, before you have to put all your chips at risk. Some poker sites like ACR have a policy against it, and then you are breaking the TOS and risking sanctions, if you repeatedly do it. But on other sites like PokerStars its allowed, and then its just part of the game. I will say though, that people sometimes overestimate, how much of an advantage they can gain by stalling. There are specific situations, where its advantageous, but there are also situations, where you are shooting yourself in the foot while possibly annoying other players in the process. That for instance is the case, if you have a bunch of shorter stacks on your left, and these players are also tight. Then you want to give yourself as many chances as possible to steal their blinds rather than slow down action. [/QUOTE]

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