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03-21-2008 , 12:07 PM

Lottery Larry

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Critique away!

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 20 minute rounds, T500 starting stack
Blinds	    	LATE STACK
1 -  T5/5		$475 
2 -  T5/10		$425 
3 -  T10/20		$375 
4-   T15/30		     (no late arrivals)
5 -   T20/40		
      break 	
6-   T25/50/ 5a		
7-   T30/60/ 10a		
8 -  T40/80/ 10a		
9 -  T50/100/ 10a		
10-   T75/150/ 15a	
     break     color up red	
11 -   T100/200/ 25a	
12-   T150/300/ 25a	
13-   T200/400/ 50a	
14-   T300/600/ 100a

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03-21-2008 , 12:10 PM

BrianBigNFun

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Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 942

sucked, I had to push early and some donkey called me with pocket 4's

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03-21-2008 , 12:14 PM

BrianBigNFun

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seriously tho, by the 5th round your M is below 10 if you havent built chips by getting lucky. I guess I like a little more "play" before I have to start pushing to steal blinds.

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03-21-2008 , 01:11 PM

Rottersod

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I don't like the jumps after round 9. It should be final table by then but it will become an all in fest.

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03-21-2008 , 02:10 PM

RaoulDuke13

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Originally Posted by Rottersod

I don't like the jumps after round 9. It should be final table by then but it will become an all in fest.

Agreed. The round 9-10 jump seems a little loud.

I do like the chipstack penalty for late arrivals. We typically blind latecomers in (and deal to their stack). Do you keep their stack live, blind them in, AND penalize them? Or deal around their seat and give them a short stack when they get there?

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03-21-2008 , 04:41 PM

Lottery Larry

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Originally Posted by RaoulDuke13

Agreed. The round 9-10 jump seems a little loud.

Well, given that we got to Round 13, at 1 a.m. (they made a deal), you can see why I start escalating blinds

The jump from 9th-10th is only 50% M, so it's not unreasonable, don't you think?

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I do like the chipstack penalty for late arrivals. We typically blind latecomers in (and deal to their stack). Do you keep their stack live, blind them in, AND penalize them? Or deal around their seat and give them a short stack when they get there?

They don't HAVE a seat, UNTIL they get there. No stack, either. When they arrive, I find an open seat, take away the penalty and they start playing.

I found that this cut down significantly on late arrivals. Blinding them off, especially if you have 75-100BB stacks, is not enough of a penalty to punish the Hellmuth-wannabes.... especially when rotating dealers may not get a round of hands in within 20 minutes.

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03-21-2008 , 04:44 PM

Lottery Larry

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Originally Posted by BrianBigNFun

seriously tho, by the 5th round your M is below 10 if you havent built chips by getting lucky. I guess I like a little more "play" before I have to start pushing to steal blinds.

Time constraints are the problem. Planning for 4 1/2 hours, to end between 12:30-1 a.m, means you need to put on some pressure.

Besides, the middle game takes forever (with higher Ms than you can afford to host) if you're not a little more aggressive about the blind structure.

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03-21-2008 , 08:01 PM

Dashieq

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 392

Round 7 keep antes at 5. With them at 10 it creates a very unusual round where the starting pot before betting is over 3x bb on a full table. Keep the ante at 10 for round 10 it will help that leap. Or if you don't like having so low of an ante late in the tournament go up to 15 in round 9, both fixes work.

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03-22-2008 , 10:04 AM

pacino

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Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 104

Honestly, I think it plays too fast. I also think the jumps in antes do create a lot of action and that the jump in blinds come too fast. I guess that's the point, but I don't really tend to like that.

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03-22-2008 , 12:49 PM

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Rapini

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Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 13,096

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Originally Posted by Lottery Larry

Thanks for this! I like it. I'm going to borrow it for tourneys I host in the future.

As others have alluded to, the antes are sometimes a contentious issue. I prefer to leave them out until the very last stages (if they're used at all) because of the added action they would create if used in middle levels.

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03-22-2008 , 03:24 PM

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Lottery Larry

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Originally Posted by Rottersod

I don't like the jumps after round 9. It should be final table by then but it will become an all in fest.

Well, the average M was 11 when the final table started (lowest- 2 highest 27) with 30/60/10a

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03-22-2008 , 03:26 PM

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Lottery Larry

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Originally Posted by Dashieq

Round 7 keep antes at 5.

Yeah, I screwed up that round.

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