Well, what if a player shows up on time and isn’t sitting out, but folds every hand except AA? Or folds every hand altogether? Should he be kicked out too?
After all, that’s no different from someone who slept through the tournament.

As you can see, the whole idea is completely pointless, which is why it’s never implemented anywhere. You can just keep folding all the time.

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The genesis of this rule is embedded in the very first tournaments that took place here. Some players just used to sitout and cashout prizes without playing. Now, we have enough players and a fast enough blind structure to tackle that. I never kickout any player just based on disconnection if he has played at least one hand.