Casino Niagara 2019 weekly tournaments.

Toronto Pimp

Thank you to 13cards for providing me with this information. Hopefully some of you that haven’t been to a weekly tournament can try one out.

Here is all the information you need.

first image is the buy-ins , starting chip stack and length of blinds.

second is the blind structure for all three tournaments.

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torontotablecpt

Do the tourneys fill? How close to 1230 can you register? Can u register after?

trigs

torontotablecpt;413840 wroteDo the tourneys fill? How close to 1230 can you register? Can u register after?

There's late registration for all tournaments. I believe the Tuesday tournament usually has the most entrants.

Gogie

I've run the Casino Niagara structures through both the Patience Factor and "S" Points machines and compared them to a few Vegas summer tournaments. A summary of the results is attached. To me it looks like the Niagara Sunday tournament is pretty comparable to what I would call a second tier Vegas summer tourney (the Rio $250 Daily Deep Stacks would be very comparable). The Monday and Tuesday Niagara tournaments to me look more like turbo tournaments. Interestingly, the Monday tournament is labeled "Turbo" by Casino Niagara but the numbers would indicate the Tuesday tournament is more of a turbo than Monday (at least according to PF's).

I'm not trying to discourage anyone from playing the Niagara tournaments. On the contrary, I think they are great value considering the low vig (much lower than any Vegas tournament) and the unlimited rebuys for several levels allows those with reasonable bank rolls to play aggressively early on to try to build their stack and rebuy as needed. I played the Tuesday earlier this week (first time playing at Casino Niagara) and found the play early on very "Wild Westish" (may have just been my table), which was probably a function of the low buy-in and unlimited rebuys. I intend to play again in the future but I'll probably make the Sunday tournament my next one.

Card Dead

It was not just your table - it's most, if not all tables. There's lots of players with deep rolls who like to bomb and fire multiple bullets if needed.

You need to survive a lot of land mines before the freezeout if you want to build a stack early.

djgolfcan

Going to play the Seneca Summer Slam Warm up event this weekend (Saturday at 6pm) - $20k in chips, 30 minute blinds Sunday is Day 2, 40 minute blinds - there are FOUR Day 1s starting on Friday

compuease

djgolfcan;413870 wroteGoing to play the Seneca Summer Slam Warm up event this weekend (Saturday at 6pm) - $20k in chips, 30 minute blinds Sunday is Day 2, 40 minute blinds - there are FOUR Day 1s starting on Friday

Doesn't that 30% of any winnings deter you even a little bit?

Mathers

Only have played Tuesday, but the blinds really make it a turbo. I believe there were more levels when it started and was cut back because a few people complained? I'm sure the vast majority would prefer a bit more play. 13 cards, if you're taking suggestions, imho, you really need to add, at the very least, a 100/200 no ante level. The cost per orbit between level 2 and 3 more than doubles, and 1 hour in, starting stack is already only 15 orbits. Replacing level 15 with a 4000/8000 and 5000/10000 would also help. Would only add an hour or so to the tourney, but would help to make it a little more gradual at least. For those who can't stay up that late, you could start at 11:30 or even 11 instead of 12:30. Would be good for all the tourneys. Thoughts?