River Cree (Edmonton) CPT Event
Late notice...but I only found out a week ago...finally got the info.
Event # 1 Monday February 1st
PLO (sweeeeeet)
$500 + $50 + $10 (optional)
Event # 2 Tuesday February 2nd:
NLHE
$1000 + $100 + $10 (optional)
Main Event # 3 3 heats, Feb 4,5&6, final table Feb 7th.
NLHE
$1600 + $150 + $10 (optional)
They note they are accepting 150 players per event per day.
Haven't seen any starting stacks or structures yet.....
That being said.....I'll play the PLO for sure......the others if I satellite in.
I'll update structures if I can find them.
Event # 1 Monday February 1st
PLO (sweeeeeet)
$500 + $50 + $10 (optional)
Event # 2 Tuesday February 2nd:
NLHE
$1000 + $100 + $10 (optional)
Main Event # 3 3 heats, Feb 4,5&6, final table Feb 7th.
NLHE
$1600 + $150 + $10 (optional)
They note they are accepting 150 players per event per day.
Haven't seen any starting stacks or structures yet.....
That being said.....I'll play the PLO for sure......the others if I satellite in.
I'll update structures if I can find them.
Comments
Cap would be nice for the PLO....first time I think they've tried one this size. Previous ones at the Cree for PLO were 100 - 250 buyin, with around 100 players. Not sure what they'll get with the increased buy-in (fingers crossed).
Also, the idea of PLO freezeout tournaments is terrible. The player pool is so much smaller then HE tournaments and stack sizes play so much shorter in PLO it really requires a rebuy format or a triple chance format (ala WSOP) for them to work well. Still, Im a sucker and will be there.
Yah, you may be right for the NLHE events.
Disagree strongly with the PLO Freezeout tourneys....agreed, chip stacks are not appropriate for the game. If they used 2x chips for the PLO tourneys, running the same structures, they would be much better off. That being said, live PLO tourneys have a high percentage of NLHE players trying there 'luck', and don't really know how to play PLO in a tourney setting. I think it's still +ev for a good PLO player to play live MTT.
Remember, WSOP, if you play the $2500 PLO, you basically received 7500 T$, which will likely be similar to this tourney. (of course shorter blind levels, but that would equate to the buy-in)
I'm going to swing by the Cree tonight to find out structures and what not.
my comment wasnt about +ev of the tournament. of course any tournament can be +ev granted you have a high enough skill level and your opponents are "trying their luck" as you put it. but dont you think a 100+10 entry fee with 100 rebuys is a much paletable entry level for such players?
Im talking about amount of play in the tournament. Im talking about the depth of chips. A PLO freezeout generally has very shallow chips even if you start out with 3x chips. And the nature of PLO is that there are a lot more situations where hand strengths are going to run even on flops so your just forced to get it in way more often then in HE.
I did play the WSOP PLO events, and they did give you play by giving you tokens for rebuys for your 2nd and 3rd parts of your chips which is what I was suggesting for this cree tournament if they didnt decide to go the rebuy route. But from my talks with the tournament director, they have opted for the traditional freezeout route which once I will say again, is the worst possible format of the 3 for a PLO tournament.
Sorry, yes, I agree a $100 rebuy would be much better.....but I would rather have a FO than nothing for PLO (which is what most casinos do for their 'series').
I will bow to your experience....and debate no more.
FMI: When playing the PLO @ WSOP, what percentage of people use their tokens immediately, as opposed to holding them until they need them.
id say a majority decided to keep their tokens for whenever they busted out. something along the lines of 80% kept them while 20% redeemed all of them right away.
i personally think its best to not redeem right away and just watch for how the table plays. if the game is overly loose and agro, its probably in your best interest to shortstack and get it in good PF. but if I see the terrible players redeem right away or get early double ups, im inclined to redeem my tokens right away in an effort to get a piece of them.
I would play more live here if the structures weren't always so poor.
And how does the rebuys for the satellite work?
Thanks.
yes, they take the top ten percent from each day. if you bust on any day you can play any subsequent day.
rebuys...you are able to buy chips as long as you are under a certain chip count up to a certain point in the tournament...usually the first break.
I know you don't play many online tourneys, but how would you equate the skill level of the 1k and the Main Event to the skill level of an online tourney?
compared to what online tournament exactly? theres quite a gap between say the Stars Sunday million and the WCOOP highroller. I guess Ill use the sunday million as the benchmark.
The 1k event will be significantly softer then the main event. The main event I expect to be a fairly tough field as far as CPT events go just because the high buy-in will not attract many randoms. In comparison to the online sunday million, id say the average talent of the field will probably fall somewhere in the middle of the two. Thats my best guess.
+1
At my belated work Christmas party, I'd be up for hitting Yellowhead afterward
Mostly only $1/2 NL ($500 Max b/i), possibly a $2-5 ($1000 Max b/i) NL and/or possibly a $2-$5 DC (at the time you get there, either one going, or won't be any chance of starting one)
I'll shoot you a PM
43 Players for the above event....unfortunately they started this one at 4pm, little too early for me to get away to play.