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Originally Posted by JohnnyGroomsTD
Just for sake of argument, can you offer specific areas we can improve in running our tournaments? Would love to get the info to make necessary changes.
I'll preface this by saying that the room is fantastic and I will frequent it as is.
That being said...
1) Make sure that all the floors and dealers make the same rulings consistently from tourney to tourney.
A not so hypothetical case---the sb limps without knowing that the hijack raised. The dealer has determined that the hijack clearly raised. Can the sb pull back the limp? Is the limp in the pot regardless? I know the answer is (or at least should be) that the chips are in the pot and the sb can call or raise. I can't tell you how many times tourney tables have slowed to a halt until the dealer has to call the floor to make a ruling. The rulings have not been consistent.
2) Is there a penalty for showing your hand heads up on the river to get a read off of an opponent prior to action? This one has come up a lot too and it seems the penalty is to tell the offender to not do it again or else.
3) Eliminate the green chips from the first few levels of weekday tourneys. The current structure slows down the first levels considerably until the first color up.
4) Fix the chargers on seats 1-5 of table 31. If you're in the $350 at one of those seats and you run deep you're probably going to run out of juice on your phone.
5) Dinner break for the $350. This is a must. 10 minute breaks every two hours for a tourney that goes from 11 AM-~midnight requires longer breaks and/or a dinner break.
Again, the room is great and you and your staff are doing a great job. I have an optimistic suspicion that pretty much everything will run like clockwork by the tournament series in November-December.