Would like to know what players would do in the following situation. Lets say you are heads up in a tournament but you notice the other player has become disconnected. Do you,

A. Keep raising (his connection problem is not my problem)

B. Sit out for 5mins if they haven't returned by then its fair game

C. Contact the poker site and inform them you would like to split 1st and 2nd place prize money.

Me personnally its A most of the time unless it is a big tournament for big dollars than I may go with B.

definately A -------- (there is noone that would do it differntly to you) i got disconnected on absolute in a 100 sng, i had four 6's and he pushed, just then i got disconnected..

Unlucky Coleman. I was saved my a semi disconnection problem once, on party poker 4 of us left in the tourny I was short stacked and dealt KK. EP goes all in when it came to my go I had no buttons to use but luckily the BB called it and got knocked out(AQ vs TT a on the board) and allowed me to cruise to 3rd.

It's ethical to take the blinds because it's fair to everyone (assuming that everybody gets disconnected roughly with the same frequency). It's in fact unfair to not take the blinds- unfair to the other opponents at the table (if any) and yourself.

Disconnections/Timeouts can be considered part of the risk or additional rake while playing online poker.