PL08 - 7-stud-8 Mixed Games Tourney Structure
09-11-2010
, 04:16 PM
Quarterly we play something other than No Limit Hold'em to change things up. Last night it was High/Low night and we ran a pretty interesting format - Pot Limit Omaha High/Low - 7-stud High/Low. Here's the structure we ran:
Lots of grumbling from the NLHE regs during the 7-stud rounds. They hate limit poker, but I am slowly getting them to come around and at least admit that it's a challenging form of poker. A lot of the regs don't show up for these special events, but we still got 13 players. (We usually hit the cap of 20 players for NLHE events).
I loved it because it was such a contrast between the Pot Limit and 7-stud rounds. Early in the tourney - especially during the rebuy period - the Pot Limit was playing much bigger than the 7-stud. However, a nit (like me) still had a good chance to grind during the 7-stud rounds and increase his stack. In later rounds, the 7-stud took over and was driving some absolute monster multi-way pots due to the overwhelming lure of chasing for some players.
Corrections I would probably make for next time is to probably make the add-on stack 2000 instead of 3000 or ins some way try to get it over sooner. It definitely ran about an hour longer than we anticipated. However, we did have a pretty epic 40 minute heads up duel where we traded 4-1 chip leads back and forth 3 times. That much heads up play with such huge blinds/bets is unusual.
Let me know if anyone has any thoughts or questions.
- Spike
PS - Also loved it since I took it down.
Lots of grumbling from the NLHE regs during the 7-stud rounds. They hate limit poker, but I am slowly getting them to come around and at least admit that it's a challenging form of poker. A lot of the regs don't show up for these special events, but we still got 13 players. (We usually hit the cap of 20 players for NLHE events).
I loved it because it was such a contrast between the Pot Limit and 7-stud rounds. Early in the tourney - especially during the rebuy period - the Pot Limit was playing much bigger than the 7-stud. However, a nit (like me) still had a good chance to grind during the 7-stud rounds and increase his stack. In later rounds, the 7-stud took over and was driving some absolute monster multi-way pots due to the overwhelming lure of chasing for some players.
Corrections I would probably make for next time is to probably make the add-on stack 2000 instead of 3000 or ins some way try to get it over sooner. It definitely ran about an hour longer than we anticipated. However, we did have a pretty epic 40 minute heads up duel where we traded 4-1 chip leads back and forth 3 times. That much heads up play with such huge blinds/bets is unusual.
Let me know if anyone has any thoughts or questions.
- Spike
PS - Also loved it since I took it down.
09-11-2010
, 10:08 PM
Well, I think you nailed one thing - the PL and FL values are out of whack. You're playing much bigger PL hands (per player) than you are in the FL games. The average pots will be similar (or can be), but single players have a lot more invested in the PL hands.
Kudos to you for playing something other than NLHE though
Kudos to you for playing something other than NLHE though
09-12-2010
, 12:54 AM