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Originally Posted by akashenk
Conjectured by whom? And using what methodology? 5-6 hands per hour would represent a minimum of 14% and perhaps as high as 25% increase in the number of hands per hour being dealt (depending on how many hands per hour you get dealt normally). You seriously think changing the ante-ing procedure will generate those kinds of gains? I mean, does collecting antes really take roughly 1/5 the length of time of the entire hand? I think that's a bit far-fetched.
In any case, there really should be no need to have conjecture. These venues run tons of tournaments. They should track how many hands they get in using the old system and compare it to the BB ante-system. It would not be hard to set up an experiment which accounts for variables and gets data from a large enough sample.
Its been conjectured by the Aria tournament people, in part I'm sure to justify the practice. That's why I used the term "conjecture", and if you think they should run an experiment to justify it then go go forth.
I don't remember where I've read it but they have come out also with "everybody loves it" as pat of the justification.
Also, recently, the Aria is running $240 turbos in the evening of their high roller events sometime in the spring and they said the same thing"everybody loves it" (the $240 turbo, lol) .
As I said, it is easier on the dealer in the collection of antes and in a sense it will speed up play but be clear; in no way am I justifying this procedure for I have a level of skepticism (also known as distrust) as to any player benefits and even to its negative for the players. After all "everybody loves it" according to the powers at be.
I'm with you on this but I do have some experience as I played in an Aria tournament over the holidays and they used the single ante system and didn't notice any appreciable difficulty relative to the old system. That, of course is no test, as I played prior to my examination of the factors involved.
A single ante system can be utilized with any of the old structures and so it would be good to carefully evaluate the old versus the new for the entire structure may have been changed with the single ante and so it may be illusory to believe its the old with a facilitated ante take.
As you may well remember, I compared a Wynn (Venetian ?) $240 single ante with the Goliath structure, a structure which began antes at level #2 and up to level #11 they pretty much were the same . As I noted both of these structures were faster early on but slowed up at higher levels.
I prefer no antes for 3 levels, all things considered, takes me awhile to wake up.
We have to be careful for it may be that we're buying a "pig in a poke".LOL