When I picked up my seating card, they were still playing the $550 tourney from last night (down to headsup), started at 6pm last night.......19+hrs. Have a wedding to go to tomorrow.....gonna hate having to miss it:)
Sorry guys, once again on my BAP, couldn't get anything going. Best hand I had was JJ, getting 3-bet by QQ in the blinds. Lost about half my chips in this pot, and probably made a bad river call when the board ran out 345TQ, could only beat AK by then, however unlikely that hand was.
Ended up shoving KT soooooted in the BB on 1 MP limper, who calls with A2, board bricks out obv.
I'll probably give the investors here a freeroll at the end of the month for a DSE event....try to build myself some run good.
Appreciate the investments, unfortunately I don't think I played my best today.....
Pretty ridiculous to run a tourney and expect people to play for that length of time. I'm all for good structures, but it has to be reasonable. If you tell your average rec player, that the first tournament of a series took 20 straight hours to complete...the chances you have him register for the next tournament drops significantly. If you want to know what a good structure is, just look at Matt Savage run tournaments that are scheduled for 1 day/2 day etc. I don't even have to look for it, I can tell you that it'll be a better structure than the ones at the WCPC.
For this to happen on the 10th annual WCPC, it seems like the pokerroom cares more about the rake than it's players. Instead of maximizing the number of tournaments every player CAN play, they should try to maximize the number of tournaments players WILL play. Whenever you're holding an event that will usually take over 14 hours or so to complete, it's a good indication that it should be a multiple-day tournament or overhaul the structure to make it fit in a reasonable period of time.
I never understood the starting times. Seems to me, since dinner is offered, the 6 PM start times should be moved up to 4 PM (assuming the first few levels are deep)...so people can late register and have dinner at YH. The 2 PM, tournaments makes no sense to me...either move it up to noon or move it down to 4 PM.
All 6 PM tournament should end at ~2 AM, and restart at 6 PM the next day. The 2 PM tourneys can end at ~2 AM and restart at 2 PM the next day. If 18 or so people can play another tournament because they're deep in another tournament, so be it. On the very last day, the tournament should be a turbo, and should finish in a day.
Another idea is to actually start the tournaments on time. Each time you delay the start, more players will show up later.
When I picked up my seating card, they were still playing the $550 tourney from last night (down to headsup), started at 6pm last night.......19+hrs. Have a wedding to go to tomorrow.....gonna hate having to miss it:)
can't really disagree with your points......I'm assuming they had to freeze the blinds at a certain level, as the structure is good, but no way it should take that long.
I heard when they were 3 handed, they played for 5 hours?
I'll see if I can confirm how it was possible for the tourney to last that long....I've played 14 hours before, and I thought that was bad.
I thought the structure in the DSE I played was great...is there a reason they couldn't make these 2 days events even if it is just for the final table? Obv it would take away from a few players playing all the events but that's life. Playing 5h 3 handed is obviously ridiculous.
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Ended up shoving KT soooooted in the BB on 1 MP limper, who calls with A2, board bricks out obv.
I'll probably give the investors here a freeroll at the end of the month for a DSE event....try to build myself some run good.
Appreciate the investments, unfortunately I don't think I played my best today.....
For this to happen on the 10th annual WCPC, it seems like the pokerroom cares more about the rake than it's players. Instead of maximizing the number of tournaments every player CAN play, they should try to maximize the number of tournaments players WILL play. Whenever you're holding an event that will usually take over 14 hours or so to complete, it's a good indication that it should be a multiple-day tournament or overhaul the structure to make it fit in a reasonable period of time.
I never understood the starting times. Seems to me, since dinner is offered, the 6 PM start times should be moved up to 4 PM (assuming the first few levels are deep)...so people can late register and have dinner at YH. The 2 PM, tournaments makes no sense to me...either move it up to noon or move it down to 4 PM.
All 6 PM tournament should end at ~2 AM, and restart at 6 PM the next day. The 2 PM tourneys can end at ~2 AM and restart at 2 PM the next day. If 18 or so people can play another tournament because they're deep in another tournament, so be it. On the very last day, the tournament should be a turbo, and should finish in a day.
Another idea is to actually start the tournaments on time. Each time you delay the start, more players will show up later.
I heard when they were 3 handed, they played for 5 hours?
I'll see if I can confirm how it was possible for the tourney to last that long....I've played 14 hours before, and I thought that was bad.
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ahhh, I see this now. gg.