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Originally Posted by frisbee33
Sorry, the old men prefer having more chips.
The logic behind that statement is stupid. If the change is made, it’s not like they are going to stop coming to turning stone to play. Even when I hear people sometimes complain about big blind antes... I played the WSOP Circuit event at Harrah’s AC this past weekend and the tourny I played had antes in the structure. I can’t explain how tilting it was to have antes collected every hand by the dealer.
If they want more chips, 2k in blacks could be distributed to each player for god sakes. 25s are so pointless. It’s also comical when players raise to stupid amounts such as 125 or 175. So pointless and just a bigger hassle for the dealer. Trust me..... getting rid of the 25 chips in mtts would be a great thing. They are pointless and a waste of space on the table. Just get rid of 25s and update the structure. All that would need to be done is add a 100-100 level to start, going to 100-100 with a bb ante of 100. I feel keeping 25s is really a waste of time and getting rid of them could kill the color up of 25s which would be a great thing for dealers and staff. Just my thoughts.
I also know this will be hated on but why not just run single day tournaments at turning stone? I feel the current 50k guarantees are so meh. Run a tournament on Saturday and Sunday and have a 25k guarantee on each day. I think it’s stupid that a player can play multiple flights and not bag.... and they are penalized for that by not being able to play Sunday (lets be honest buying in on Sunday is super -ev and pointless). I know the current tourny scheme at tstone is solid but I really feel single day events are better.
Solid players can fire billets at these events which really isn’t good for the recreational player. Why not just throw in 2 single day events on a Saturday and Sunday? I feel the turnout of single day events would be great and probably would easily hit 150-300 runners each day if they did big tournaments one weekend a month. Just my thiughts as someone that doesn’t want to have to fire bullets into the same event multiple times.
Look at what borgata does with their deepstacks series. They run solid structure events that run 1 day. Give players heaps of chips early (30k-40k), make levels 25-30 min and the tourny will finish in one day. It’s pointless to make people need to play a flight on Saturday/ Friday and then come back for Sunday if that’s not how they want to spend a weekend. I know I’ll be ostracized for staying these facts but as a tourny player.... I really think some change needs to be made for the current tournaments at turning stone.
It’s pretty bad when I find going to Parx or AC more enjoyable than a 45 min ride to turning stone for an mtt (I’m from Syracuse).I def feel the structures are good and the main ideas are solid at turning stone but I feel more quantity of tournaments would be nice. I think it’s better for the poker economy if 2 different people win 7-8k vs 1 person winning 16k in a tournament. Just my thoughts. I’ll continue to play mtts at turning stone however I think some change to the current mtts there would be nice.
Last edited by Jkpoker10; 03-19-2019 at 11:25 PM.