trigs;401205 wroteI thank BlondeFish for all his work for poker players in Canada.
It's not easy, but somebuddy has to do it. :)
TLDR: The Canadian Grand Prix Online Day 1s are basically BINGO-ments compared to the other online and live flights.
It's even worse than what UBetIFold and I thought. The Canadian online flights have strangely different (and faster) blinds than the
live flights at Playground. :confused: Only the Canadian online flights have 8-minute levels compared to the 12 minutes of GPPT Cardiff, Ireland, and "Online Grand Prix," which has 50% more chips at 30,000.
All the other
GPPT live flights at Cardiff, Ireland, Brighton, etc. also have 50% longer levels or 30 minutes compared to the 20 minutes of the Canadian Grand Prix. Below are the Patience Factors, Skills Levels and Blind-Off Times for the various Day 1s.
Canada Online (20K chips, only 8-min levels): PF =
only 5.9, SL =
only 2, BOT =
only 1.5 hr. :(
Online Grand Prix (30K chips, 12-min levels): PF =
15.1!, SL =
6!, BOT =
2.3 hr. :h:
Cardiff, Ireland & other online GPPT: PF = 12.2, SL = 5, BOT = 2.1 hr.
Playground (20-min levels): PF = 12.2, SL = 6, BOT = 3.5 hr.
Playground (15-min Turbo): PF = 8.2, SL = 5, BOT = 2.9 hr.
Cardiff, Ireland & other live GPPT (30-minute levels): PF =
21.0, SL = 6, BOT =
4.6 hr.
WWBD (from best to worst):
1) Book an airline flight with DirtArse to play at GPPT Ireland or Cardiff instead. :wink:
2) Or play the Online Grand Prix with U$500,000 Gtd and get to play the most hands.
3) Use GPPT tickets you have won at Playground (20 min).
4) I only want to play the first Canadian online flight, then evaluate with the player I have swapped with. Unfortunately for me, I may have date conflicts between CNE Casino and Playground, so I may be forced to play more online flights than I want to.
I will bring up some of these points in the partypoker forum on Facebook, and hope that I don't get Doom-switched permanently!
UBetIFold;401372 wroteDefinitely not a fan at all of the revised 8 min levels.
It's basically the same structure as there bi-hourly 6-max turbo MTT's with a few exceptions.
-BF mentioned no 50/100 level in the grand prix.
-there's also no 250-500 in the grand prix
-the starting Stack is only 20k compared to 30k in the 6-max turbo's.
Maybe it would be better off to take only 1 shot online and the remainder of the tickets be used live? I can only presume it would be a bit softer live too.