1st event is 4 handed atm.

3 handed

names?

some guy named Barney shipped it, dont remember if it was his first or last name

I'm trying to play a bunch live this year. I'm up in live tourneys but down on the year due to online, expenses, and pit. Not gonna play much online this year until SCOOP but played a lot last year

Me and a few others I know still in event 2, 85 or so left 63 cash. I only have 70k startin at 2k 4k cuz I spew hard and lose huge flips, still prob gonna win tho.

Seems very slow for a 300. better than it being a crapshoot but still

Are you still in? Table tomorrow? I'm 22 don't remember what seat

nah I needed cigs so I figured I'd head to the casino and play 2nd chance took 11th for ~300 profit...play was pretty ridiculous so should be fun to play with these guys later on with a decent structure. every shortstack was really nitty and the big stacks were spewing pretty hard. I saw an open to 9x with other 30+ bb stacks behind, a raise to 5x with 82s from MP1 with rly short stacks on the table including a bb with like 5 bb left, the standard live nits folds getting over 2:1, a guy fold blind to my btn ship and later claim to open fold AK on the bubble some guy was wasted out of his mind and he might have been above average of the players left

Event one taken down by Tim "qq-q u a d s-qq" Barney

Structure was definitely too long for a $300 where basically only making final 2 tables is worth it. I am sure my ridic semi bluff overshove at 10pm was a result of this.

players are pretty bad....my fave hand of the day is when some guy who looked like a dad that plays a $10 home game once a year TANK called an all in reraise with AA on a 4-8-j-A non flush board. He thought like 20-25 seconds and said "well, i have to call". Was absolutely not a slowroll.

playing today...should be much more fun since im guessing maybe 20% of the field will be competent in PLO. GL all

A lot of players began doing this after the dinner break (both in Events 1 and 2). Myself included. Once the antes got decent enough so that if you got folds around you still picked up a decent victory, people were going "F it, let's just get the chips in and hope; I'm not going to string myself along for another 4 hours". At least at my tables, it turned Levels 10 and 11 into shove or fold poker. Not because people were super short stacked or the blinds had just gotten huge relative to stack size, but rather because people didn't want to hang around with half respectable stacks. If they doubled up and got to a nice sized stack, great, if not, oh well, they had fun and called it a day. Event 2, my table had 4 straight all-in/calls, and all 4 times it wasn't even a super short stack desperate for a double up.

It did give a HUGE advantage to players with a big enough stack if you were at a table where players didn't pick up on what was going on. During the first event, Level 10, at my table, you still had guys with stacks limping in, then either calling the short stacks all-in, or folding to an all-in or big raise from the big stack.

If you had a big stack, and could figure out which players were in the "shove or fold" mode, which wasn't hard to do, once you knew they were out of the hand (or even if there was only one still to act) you could raise big and pick up 2 or 3 limps in addition to the blinds and antes. At my table, there were 3 big stacks, 2 short stacks, and 5 medium stacks, of which 2 were in "f it, shove or fold" mode. So 4 were in the shove/fold mode. Out of the other 6, 4 of them still kept limping along and the 2 players who picked up on this were able to just scoop up chips by raising every time the all-in or fold players weren't in the hand. How the guys who kept limping and folding didn't pick up on this was beyond me. I was just annoyed at myself for donking myself from a decent enough stack to a small stack back in Level 7, because if I had the chips I would have been able to do that as well, but that's my own fault for playing stupid earlier.

I'm not saying the structure was "bad", it was just long. It certainly did give the players who just wanted to say they played in a tournament value for their money.

Yeah structure was def too long for a 300 and didn't even get into the money which is gonna upset me when I have to come back for day 2 just to bubble and not get to play the HA event.

I don't think the structure is "bad" either, in fact it's a great value if you are taking a shot at a bigger live tourney. More of a personal thing...2 years ago that tourney would be a huge deal to me, and my play would have been different accordingly.

According to the monitor in front of me, event 2 isn't even in the money yet

do they take out the 3% for dealers here? hard for me to think they don't these days but it doesn't mention it on the structure sheet

I don't think the structure is "bad" or "good" neccessarily. It's just very long, and you just have to understand that. I'm still going to play in Tuesday's event even though I know there's a chance it will wind up just like Friday and Satuday's Events for me - play fine but end up with 9 or 10 hours of playing poker and nothing to show for it.

For a lot of the players who play poker recreationally as a way to just have a good time, this format gives them a LOT of value for their dollar. And since it's a long tournmanent, you have ample time to outplay them. But it's countered by the fact that no matter how well you play, there's a very good chance you're playing from Noon to Midnight and you're still nowhere near the buble.

Structure sheet for the $500+60 1/2 NLH 1/2 PLO tournament mentioned the 'Shoe withholding 3% of the prize pool. I assume that's the case with the other tourneys.

Also, for those curious, 131 runners in the 1/2 NLH 1/2 PLO tourney today. I'm mediocre at PLO so I decided to pass.

On the bottom of all the structure sheets at The Venue, it states 3% is withheld for tournamnet staff and dealers....

I'm setting the Main Event field over/under at 225 runners. Thoughts?

Sounds about right to me

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got like 67th, wish they would have just played until the money last night

Guess I'm glad my pocket kings lost to pocket aces a few hrs after dinner last night, even if my stack was well above avg. Coming back for day two of a $300 donkament only to not cash is a little harsh. What were you wearing yesterday, maybe I saw you at the tables...

A green jacket with a brazil jersey underneath and Bose headphones. I was sitting at the first table when you walk in the entire day until about midnight.

I lost a flip at 200-400 for 120k stack. Meh..

Don't think I saw you. I've been wearing my blue red sox stocking hat. My crippling hand in event #1 was pocket aces losing to quad tens. The guy didn't play it like a standard set so I got my money in. It's because he didn't have a standard set. He had quads. I run so well in these.

sup guys i bubbled event #1 wore green sunglasses and a hoodie... waste of 14 hrs lol