Brantford Casino - NL Holdem Tournaments
Hello Fellow Poker Friends!
Just an FYI post...
I played at Brantford Casino on a Sunday freezeout tournament for $100 in mid January.
For those of you who haven't entered into a tournament there...it is a must try. They have multiple tournaments every week, mornings and nights.
The dealers and pit bosses were great, waitresses were quick and the poker level was decent (4 of 5).
Play well,
Thanks!
Just an FYI post...
I played at Brantford Casino on a Sunday freezeout tournament for $100 in mid January.
For those of you who haven't entered into a tournament there...it is a must try. They have multiple tournaments every week, mornings and nights.
The dealers and pit bosses were great, waitresses were quick and the poker level was decent (4 of 5).
Play well,
Thanks!
Comments
fyp
I had a good tourny....took 3rd.
LOL, guess that is why I am recommending.
Is anybody interested in possibly carpooling to Brantford or future tournaments at Point Edward, Great Blue Heron or Casino Rama? I'll be coming from QEW Oakville.
Uhh, I played the $500 tourney a while ago and it was literally one of the best value tournaments possible. Yes it's a turbo structure but it plays like a $26 online tourney at BEST.
A couple of my buddies are going to the four-day Blue Water Classic in Sarnia, and I can't decide if I should join them. I've become more comfortable playing 25 $26 online tourneys at home than risking $600+ in a live donkament where there is an ~80% chance I won't make the money.
Does it matter?
Online tourneys run every day. Go to the liveament with your buddies.
Obv if its just about the money stay home. Your edge in multiple MTT is > than your edge in a single tournament.
In general for reasons Wetts said, I'll take a slightly lower EV live donkament over online just to switch it up and also cuz it's more fun (for me). But if it's a pretty significant difference I'll usually pass on the live tournament if I have to go out of my way to go.
It kind of depends on your bank roll and such but in general I'd pick a live donkament if it's near the top of what I'm rolled for. If I have 100k roll and there's a 1k donkament I'll go play as long as it's not like travel for a day and spend 2 nights on a hotel or something. I'd generally estimate my live ROI as double (maybe more in some cases?) my online ROI so if I can play 2k of online tournies in a year it's probably worth playing a 1k tourney as far as straight up $EV, but I might play a $750 or $800 just for the added fun EV. Also you have to factor in that you're going to bust early a bit of the time and will still be able to play a night schedule if that's your concern.
I was also thinking of grinding the Sarnia tourney, and I almost certainly would if I could play both days, but idk if that's possible and I don't think it's worth it to drive there and stay 2 nights only to potentially grind a couple hours if I busted early. I might call about it this weekend and see if I can book seats for both day 1s or something.
You can play both Day 1's. If you make Day 2 on both day 1's then you play whichever of your stack has the most chips, you can't play 2 seats on Day 2
Really? I think your live ROI should always be better than online? Now the variance is of course much greater....as you can't play 8 at a time.
Yea your live ROI *should* be much higher as long as you're adjusting and stuff. Obv you can't just play your online game live, but people play so exploitably. The variance is def not higher (in the sense that if you play 1000 games live you'll run closer to EV than 1000 games online), the only drawback is lower volume/takes more time to get in 1000 games.
True ROI is kind of a myth imo. Like think of how many variables there are over the course of a few thousand online tournaments. It's not really relevant, but I mean we can get enough tourneys to ballpark it and who needs anything more than that?