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Originally Posted by NTellier85
Got the offer for the 150,000 free poker tournament at PH in March. Anyone know anything about this, structure, amount of players, etc?
I played it 2 years ago. Day 1 was played shootout style, top 2 advance. It was basically a super turbo sit-n-go. Day 2 went to a normal freezeout. Everyone started with same stack on day 2, and the blinds went up at a more reasonable, but still turboish pace.
I forget the exact numbers, but there were around 700 entrants with 130ish going to dsy 2 (I think arpund 110 actually showed). They decreased the prize pool to around $115,000 because the prize pool is dependent on 1000 registrants. All prizes were paid out in free play vouchers, which you could get for slots or table games (there were some weird stipulations on the table game vouchers). Really top-heavy payouts with lots of tiered payouts, like maybe 30th-60th place all got $500. First was $22,500, I think.
75% of the players had no idea what was going on, even on day 2, so pace was really slow. Posting blinds and collecting antes was a constant struggle. None of the dealers wanted to be there, and it was quite obvious most of the time.
Register Friday if you can if you want choice of day 1 flight. Day 1 lasted around 40 minutes for me, and I can't imagine with that structure any going much more than an hour. Day 2 went around 4 and a half hours.
If there's anything I forgot, just ask.