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Originally Posted by psandman
TDs don't care about your belief that it is unfair to be moved to a table where you don't know anyone. That is just part of the game. It's not unfair ... They don't know how you play either so it evens out.
In my experience this is not always true. Some TD's do care if for no other reason than that they don't want to deal with unhappy customers.
And it is unfair in the sense that almost everyone else has gotten a chance to know players at their table and you are playing blind once you move. The fact that the other players don't know how you play affects them only when you are playing a hand. The opposite isn't true. You are affected every time you play a hand.
It is for this reason that I prefer in the beginning and middle of tournaments to play down two players rather than have players moved.
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But moving players is disruptive and should not be done unnecessarily. It's inefficient and serves no purpose.
The purpose it serves is to balance tables. It doesn't have to be done in a situation where the table is down 2 players, but towards the end of a tournament in fairness it does serve a purpose to balance even then. When close to the money or in the money, pay jumps can be hit more easily the more players you have at the table. I would argue that having fewer people at the table does benefit the best players at the table, but for the majority of players it is a disadvantage.
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If a poker room is regularly having the problem of starting the tournament and having tables with too few players .... The problem is they are selling seats on too many tables or selling too many seats at the available tables. All they have to do is sell from a smaller pool. Now if it happens rarely that is variance if it happens often it is poor planning.
I hope they are listening...
But one of the biggest problems I find is random. Some players buy in and don't sit down. Sometimes its because they don't like to play 4 or 5 handed. Sometimes they are just getting a bite to eat. But whatever the reason, I think that their stacks should be set up and blinded off. And they should be counted as part of the minimum needed to start.
Some rooms know that they get a lot of entrants after the start of the tournament. The Borgota is one that comes to mind. I wish that they would redistribute players at the start so they can start playing. In a way this is good because at FW latecomers are typically seated together if they didn't plan for enough tables, and latecomers are typically better than average...