Hard rock Hollywood Florida $150 Buy in 100k GTD NL tournament

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11-29-2016 , 09:26 PM

jake0518

centurion

Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 116

25/50 10k starting stack with 30 minute levels. Limp-a-thon To hero on cut off, hero raises 525, folds to Villain on HJ who pushes all in with stack couples hundred less than the Hero.

Hero calls with AA, HJ shows 85o.

Board runs 835JQ lol. I keep saying I won't play low buy in donkaments and get myself aggravated. But should I be happy that many players like this out there to finance tournaments???

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11-29-2016 , 09:29 PM

persianpunisher

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Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 2,818

No, you want to be sitting at tables with 9 Fedors.

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11-29-2016 , 10:46 PM

Colin_Piddle

The Colonial

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 11,807

You got a bad beat. Suck it up like a champ instead of whining on poker forums.

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11-29-2016 , 11:49 PM

fidstar-poker

I'm gonna need a hacksaw

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 32,984

150 dollar buy in is nose bleeds here in BBV.

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11-30-2016 , 03:39 AM

PANRIPPER

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 400

Assuming it's a multiple re-entry format. I guess the guy's strategy was to take a wild gamble with literally any two in order to play with a big stack very early on.

Maybe it'll take one more double-up gamble to satisfy his early monster stack goal.

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11-30-2016 , 04:23 AM

orb_dam_u

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 1,351

wow did you really lose with AA? That's sick bro. You were like 96,5% to win it. Always sucks to lose to about a 3,fiddy %

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12-01-2016 , 01:49 PM

CigarDan

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S.Fla reg here, that play is super standard in these tourneys, I have seen tables where the 1st hand is 6+ people all-in in the dark, one person scoops a big stack and 5 people go rebuy and try again.

The problem with this format is that it might as well be winner take all, they barely pay anyone (1 in 16 as opposed to the standard 1 in 10) and when they do its still pretty bad until 5th - 1st. This tournament had over 1600 entries and 15th (top 1% of field) didn't even make 10 buy-ins.

I advised all my friends to steer clear of this one, but there is a 360 bi with 500k gtd coming up in January that has good value, play that one.

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12-01-2016 , 02:29 PM

jake0518

centurion

Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 116

Yeah I agree. I will be playing the 360 and 1100 or 1200 main event

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12-02-2016 , 05:58 PM

CigarDan

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Here's the same tournament, run 3 months ago.

$150 Buy-in $150k GTD

Cliffs - 1,841 entries 108 places paid.

Some will argue that paying fewer places makes the pay for those who do cash better, but tourneys are already colossal monuments to variance to begin with and shrinking the percentage of people who cash only magnifies the variance, thus making it less attractive to the players who may not be properly rolled to take higher variance risks. IMO flatter payout structures are better for the poker community as a whole, which is why I advise against playing tournaments like these unless you have a ridiculous roll and are prepared to get chewed up by variance.

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