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Originally Posted by BradH
You're not missing anything.
I don't think anyone expects DSE type tourneys or anything of the sort. Doesn't fit the economy of the room.
But the point is you *should* get a reasonable amount of play/not silly jumps in levels, and not ridiculous rake. 20 min levels for $250 is laughable.
You've stated you're ok without it, and that's fine. It's a trade off.
Ill probably keep playing the PLO tourneys because I'm willing to accept these things since I experience in a live PLO tourney, something I won't get otherwise. But lets not pretend these are some kind of good structure or anything other than a bit of fun and a money generators for the house.
I only played in one of these. Have the dealers improved or is it still wildly inconsistent? Also, I wonder if they could possibly cut down on the number of times the dealers switch tables. When a 20 minute level basically goes 1 orbit (big blind went up on my big blind on consecutive orbits...) because of bad dealing (ante collection and slow-rolling post-flop action, poor chip counting) and switching dealers every 10-15 minutes at times. In other words you could play a 20 minute level structure if you got more like 15-20 hands per level rather than <10 at times.
I also understand somewhat how a $10 tournament fee is sort of the minimum bang-for-the buck for the real estate they have to take up. But why does the $120 have to be +20 and the $210 has to be +30 in addition to the dealer add-on which is sort of a joke especially given what I said above about the constant dealer switching (seriously how about at most 2 dealers between breaks). $120+$15 and $210+20 seems reasonable and would make the game more sustainable long term. The current rakes are overly greedy in my opinion. Either that or increase the buyin and keep rakes the same. Make a 300+30 and 200+20 and 100+10 weekday (150+15 nightly).
Last edited by donny5k; 03-17-2013 at 06:11 PM.