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Originally Posted by Coy_Roy
Nobody said anything about "marathon". Right now if you lose one or two medium size pots, you're basically short-stacked. The structure as it is now encourages re-entries and it very much feels and plays that way.
All the MDL tournaments are re-entry. It states that on the Bravo page and I believe on every printed tournament structure sheet in the poker room. Not sure why you would be looking for something structured as a non re-entry when the house rules have been clearly defined.
Reason behind the re-entry is because most of the tournaments are guarantees so to prevent big overlays (basically giving away money) they allow the re-entries so they can recoop the money they put of for the prize pool.
I looked up the tournament you mentioned that's 30,000 chips and 25 min level. Tourney is $150. If I'm not mistaken, it doesn't look to be a guarantee prize pool. Also not sure if its a re-entry but I will assume its not based on your comment about the tournaments at MDL playing like re-entries (which they are!) and I take it you don't prefer that style, which would be another reason you don't play in them.
Not sure about you but I play poker to make money. Yes, there is an entertainment factor but I want to maximize on the time and money I spend on poker.
Its going to take me 1.5 to 2 hours to get to DP. I have to pay gas and tolls to get there. Tourney starts at noon and since I have a huge starting stack and levels are 25 min and lets assume we get at least 100 players, tourney is going to run well into the night.
Assume that $100 of the $150 is going to prize pool and we do get at least 100 players, we now have a prize pool of $10,000. Payout structure for prizes is going to put the money for the prizes pretty low where a good number of players would equate it to not be worth the time and effort and additional expense (travel related) to play the tournament. Oh, I forgot to mention that since I played in this deepstack tourney and it ran until 12:00 midnight to the bubble and I was the bubble boy and no one wanted to put in for side pot for bubble boy, I have a 2 hour drive ahead of me and I'm tired. Or maybe I'll check into one of the hotels in the area and spend another $150+ to get some rest and travel back the next day. However, I would assume it would have a great entertainment value for some who just enjoy playing tournaments.
Compare this to a $20K guarantee that is hosted at a poker room that is 20 minutes from my house, which usually draws on average 150+ runners each week with actual players and re-entries combined. Prize pool is well over $40K with first place is at least $13K (more that the entire prize pool at the deepstack DP tourney with that AWESOME structure) each week. Yes, I only get 15,000 starting stack but I got 30/40 min levels and a chance to take down or chop a huge prize. At the end of the night, I have a 20 min drive home.
I guess each person does what makes sense to them.
Last edited by CashEddie; 11-15-2013 at 07:34 PM.