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Originally Posted by TDChrisG
47a will be a long flight but we are looking at limiting the duration of the breaks to help with that a bit. That said I don't think we will get all of the levels in as scheduled since PLO plays a fit faster than NLH events. We are scheduled for all of the posted levels or 12% of the remaining field - whichever occurs first. Guessing we rap up prior to 4a with adjusting break schedules and expected time we hit 12% of the remaining field.
I don't see anything on the structure sheet about stopping play when 12% of the field remains, although I don't disagree with doing that (it should be communicated on the structure sheet).
Rather than depending on PLO playing faster, why not just 15 levels (rather than 18) or 12% of field, whichever is first? IMO, no one's gonna want a 60 min. dinner break at ~11:30 pm, so just make it a regular break and keep the breaks at 15 min. That's still likely going to mean day 1A ends ~4 am. Anything past that is just insane for a day 1 flight. Then the only question would be do you want to allow people to basically buy into day 2 or close late reg. at start of level 13?
I'm just asking you to put yourself in players' shoes here. While such changes might at least make it possible for me to play day 1A, that's not really my main concern. I would like the structure finalized so that at least I can decide whether to play that flight and make/adjust my travel arrangements accordingly. I would also like to see PLO & mixed games succeed in your (and other) series, so don't want you to miss your GTD here.
Will someone else corroborate that players don't want an hour dinner break at 11:30 pm and don't want to play past 4 am during a day 1 flight of a $400 MTT?