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I'm not sure how I feel about the sitting-out rule.

Maybe 5-minutes would be better with the exception that if you have returned and are set to play again when the big-blind reaches you then you don't get kicked-off.

This includes if some guy sits-out and the blind passes over you automatically. Which sometimes results in you getting kicked-off even though you were sitting there waiting to pay your big-blind.
very annoying.

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On this point, they really have to change their bizarre system for irregular blind situations. Like if you’re UTG and the player on your left goes broke, then you move into the small blind without ever having to post a big blind. That is ridiculous. But it’s been ridiculous for five years and they haven’t made any effort to repair it.

On the sitting out thing, I agree essentially with Microbob but the five minutes should start not when you actually leave the table but when you miss your first blind. For example, at a nine-handed table suppose you play your button and then sit out. The five-minute countdown would not start immediately, but six hands later when it is actually your turn to post. (Also on a related point, you really should still be awarded FPPs for the hands in the meantime, since you have paid for those hands, but I think the software doesn't give them to you.) Then after the five-minute time period has expired, you would not be lifted from the table until the big blind reaches you.

The other thing is, you shouldn’t be allowed to skip an orbit, play an orbit, then skip the next orbit. I don’t know the best way to handle this. Maybe you should get a maximum of one break every forty-five minutes; after that if you click ‘sit out’ you would get a warning that you will be removed from the table immediately if you fail to post.

One other thing, what does QFT stand for? It seems to appear in every thread but I missed the memo explaining it.