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Originally Posted by Siculamente
It's obv not good for club owners and people wanting to play 20$ tournaments, but for people that want to play bigger it could be beneficial.
That doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the tournaments running in Portland are bigger than a $20 buyin.
I don't share the view that the SM tournaments are run any more professionally than those in Portland. I played and chopped a tournament at SM two weeks ago, and it was fine, but the room's small, it's a long drive from my home, and I don't play cash games, so their regular daily tournaments just aren't that appealing. The schedule's sparse, the fields aren't big, and it's not worth my time to drive that far for a small game. Even the Top of the Mountain series didn't have guarantees, just estimated pots based on 100 players (the one I played only had 83).
I can get to four different Portland clubs within 15 minutes and there's a tournament starting at one or the other of them every hour of the day between 11am and 10pm seven days a week, more or less. Most of them are going to have 30-60 players early in the day and more later.
I've never had an issue carrying cash into or out of a Portland club, getting paid, etc. I have had the security guard walk me to my car a couple of times when I've won big, but that's not an issue with the club, more the surroundings.
I don't know about "most people" feeling comfortable in them, but I can guarantee that at least a few hundred people are going to be finding them comfortable tonight, with $5K, $6K, and $20K guarantees starting in three different venues between 6 and 8pm for buyins of $150, $50, and $100, respectively.