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Originally Posted by Sean Snyder
For anyone in the area, Hawaiian Gardens has a $2200 8game tournament tomorrow starting at 1pm. Tournament sheet lists the games as HORSE+NL+PLO and limit Big O but I believe the Big O will be pot limit. Just a 1 day event with a fairly fast structure. Should be a fun group of folks around to play in it, come on over and check out the best casino in LA.
i'm a little late to reply to this... i ended up playing this (didnt even see this post!) and was actually disappointed.
i visited HG in october and loved everything about their cashgame room and i can totally see why they are gunning for commerce. seats comfy, good food, phone chargers everywhere, good dealers, good layout, good mixgames.
this tournament however was mediocre, which is a small hiccup in the scheme of things but i need to point these out in case anyone with power is reading.
-90% of the dealers were unfamiliar with mix.
- the structure was a kessler-approved nightmare (way too deep for 4-5 hours then suddenly a giant crapshoot). this results in a lot of sharp regs max-late registering (good or bad depending on your point of view)
- they removed deuce and replaced it with PL Big O (i can imagine why this happened but i'm still disappointed).
- starting stacks were 30k and someone was given 35k (one extra big chip). fortunately that player is an upstanding dude (fuhs) and spoke out.
- how they handled the late entries was probably incorrect based on table talk, but i'll leave that to smarter people than me cuz i dont know how to run a 7 table tournament.
- when the tournament just started (we're talking like 7 players regged at this point), a player asked the presiding TD how long they thought the tournament would last. the TD quoted 6-8 hours. it ended up going 15 hours. this is a major **** up imo, cuz i actually ended up needing to fly out the next day due to family stuff and had a legit reason to consider just not registering. hearing the 6-8 hours quoted and then seeing it ended at 4AM makes me a little upset.
- iirc breaks were all 15 minutes and there was no dinner break and the line for sandwiches was too long. shoulda had more folding monies on me for dim sum.
anyways i just saw a lot of sloppy stuff from this tournament and would likely not support another one at this buyin level unless they changed the structure or the registration. i dont think anyone even had the opportunity to re-enter cuz it was so stupidly slow to start.
if we could just make it so limit/mix tournament start with like 25ish bets and go from there, that'd be great. its not the end of the world to register a limit tournament and bust the first hour. thats what tournaments are for. stop making it so i have to survive 5 hours! thats how u end at 4am. crikey.
ok endrant thx