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Last year's Montreal HR had 41 entrants. This year's guarantee will be reached at 30 entrants. But the entire poker room should twist itself into a pretzel to accommodate a few more rich guys (and the whopping $300 rake they provide).

Why are they twisting themselves into a pretzel? If there are things that make it hard, then let's talk and think about them.

There's enough anecdotal evidence ITT that current setups are deterring lots of players. It's possible that alternative setups would deter even more, but also possible that they can be greatly improved.

Also, what a weird sentiment to seem to want *fewer* random rich guys to be able to participate in poker tournaments.

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10-11-2017 , 05:47 PM

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Lego05

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 24,890

Almost every time I've ever looked at a schedule for a live tournament series to see if there is something I might want to go play I cannot understand why there are no 2 day $500+ events on the weekend (Saturday-Sunday). I often see them scheduled for Friday-Saturday or Sunday-Monday and I don't get why they can't be scheduled just on the weekend (Saturday-Sunday) when most people are off from work. And then I don't go because I don't want to take off from work on Friday or Monday for it.

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10-11-2017 , 06:14 PM

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mrmossy84

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5,761

Looking at schedules usually give me a headache. I've been begging WSOP and the circuit for years to optimize their stuff, they rarely get it right. It drives me crazy the most when they have a big restart at noon but start the new days tournamenr at 11am or something dumb like that.

Borgata does 1A/1B on Sunday/Monday because the hotel rates for poker players on Friday/Saturday are too expensive (250+) and the poker department doesn't have much control over that.

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10-13-2017 , 01:07 AM

#29

Army Eye

veteran

Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,534

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Originally Posted by BDHarrison

Poker rooms make more money off cash games than tournaments. While tournaments sometimes drive cash game traffic, rooms should be careful that their tournaments don't cannibalize cash games. Maximizing the number of entries in tournaments may not be what is best for the room.

I don't think it is good for poker rooms to cater too much towards people whose only gambling is poker tournaments. Those players are not as valuable as people who also play cash games or slots or pit games.

The next time I see a tournament series doing big numbers, and then see slower than usual cash games alongside it, will be the first.

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10-13-2017 , 07:04 PM

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stevster77

grinder

Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 502

Completely agree with all of this, live in NYC and have the same issues. Foxwoods and Parx are relatively good about it but I never play the Borgata WPT mains etc because of the scheduling.

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10-14-2017 , 04:21 AM

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Wilbury Twist

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Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 6,153

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Originally Posted by apology7

Knew before I opened this thread that there was going to be some thinly veiled brags, OP did not disappoint! He even included a nice paragraph long bio detailing his situation which is totally irrelevant, get over yourself brother.

Eh? If that's strikes you as braggadocio, then you must be projecting.

Not everyone knows who he is, particularly those who joined more recently. Besides, even if it was... this is a section of the forum where people's opinions are not held in high regard unless their post count is sufficient or their graphs trend upwards. So providing a few credentials serves as a reminder that he knows of what he opines, while the nature of his job prevents all of the idiotic "your job sucks if you can't get that Monday off" posts that we saw in another recent thread.

Thus, not at all "irrelevant." Completely reasonable, in my opinion.