GBH 2013 Schedule Out
Great Blue Heron Charity Casino - Poker Tournaments
Comparison of the structures between GBH & Brantford for those interested:
Brantford: $1090 (1000 +90) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 40 min blinds - Patience Factor: 30.34
GBH: $1100 (1000 + 100) - NLH Freeze Out - 10k starting stack - 45 min blinds - Patience Factor: 37.58
Brantford: $550 (500+50) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 21.58
Brantford: $550 (500+50) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 40 min blinds - Patience Factor: 30.34
Brantford: $550 (400+50+100) NLH Deepstack $100 Bounty - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 21.58
GBH: $550 (500+50) NLH Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 18.91
Brantford: $230 (200+30) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 18.43
Brantford: $200 (125+25+50) NLH Deepstack $50 Bounty - 15k starting stack - 20 min blinds - Patience Factor: 10.62
Brantford: $200 (125+25+50) NLH $50 Bounty - 10k starting stack - 20 min blinds - Patience Factor: 8.19
GBH:$220 (200+20) Man Overboard/Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 30 min blinds - PF: 18.91
GBH:$220 (200+20) Deepstack Turbo Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 20 min blinds - PF: 11.01
Comparison of the structures between GBH & Brantford for those interested:
Brantford: $1090 (1000 +90) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 40 min blinds - Patience Factor: 30.34
GBH: $1100 (1000 + 100) - NLH Freeze Out - 10k starting stack - 45 min blinds - Patience Factor: 37.58
Brantford: $550 (500+50) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 21.58
Brantford: $550 (500+50) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 40 min blinds - Patience Factor: 30.34
Brantford: $550 (400+50+100) NLH Deepstack $100 Bounty - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 21.58
GBH: $550 (500+50) NLH Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 18.91
Brantford: $230 (200+30) NLH Deepstack - 15k starting stack - 30 min blinds - Patience Factor: 18.43
Brantford: $200 (125+25+50) NLH Deepstack $50 Bounty - 15k starting stack - 20 min blinds - Patience Factor: 10.62
Brantford: $200 (125+25+50) NLH $50 Bounty - 10k starting stack - 20 min blinds - Patience Factor: 8.19
GBH:$220 (200+20) Man Overboard/Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 30 min blinds - PF: 18.91
GBH:$220 (200+20) Deepstack Turbo Freeze Out - 8k starting stack - 20 min blinds - PF: 11.01
Comments
The man overboard tournament is just a name given to this tournament in memory of the poker players that have passed away and were friends to the staff and players at the GBH. Not trying to develope a new style of tournament.
A lot of you know the player that called out "Man overboard" each time a player was eliminated from the tournaments.
I would bet that very few casino players are on ANY poker forum, never mind this just one.. and certainly not regularly..
The King of the Cards needs to have more than five places paid, so that more of the 50 "VIPs" that have to make a special trip during winter will walk away with some Christmas cash instead of a wasted day.
The tourneys of Rama & OLG Slots are more +EV than GBH's 9.1%-raked tourneys, but GBH is still much better than the -EV tourneys at Seneca/Vegas. I guess I'll be making good use of my new winter tires for the almost 3 1/2 drive on January 15, February 5 & 19, March 5 & 19, and April.
Winter, Summer, and Spring classics
Also starting stacks have have changed
$220 = 8k chips
Most $330 = 12k chips
$550 = 15k chips
I wish it was later, so I could play these tournaments.
The more hands per hour, the better for a good player, so that is the advantage of tournaments at Casino Rama (auto shufflers) and the electronic tourneys at Woodbine, Mohawk & Western Fair. :cool:
On average, Brantford will deal 25-30% more hands than GBH dealers. The is based on dealer work ethic (laziness), competence level (a lot of times they are not aware of what is happening at the table), and knowledge of the rules (causes for many delays if they are always calling for a supervisor ruling).
Biggest issue I find is that GBH has never trained their poker dealers on tournament rules. Last tournament I played their, the dealer stopped the game for 5 minutes to ask a supervisor what he should do with a player that just got moved to their table but is sitting between the small blind and the button. This is an obvious problem with competence, since the same rules apply in a cash game where they cannot be dealt in, unless they have option to buy the button, which they should know does not apply since this is a tournament.
They used to have 12 tables, but they removed 2 to have extra baccarat tables. And they always leave 1 table for cash games for the degens that play overnight.
What happened there?
I'm hoping that I won't be the only one suggesting improvements to the weird King of the Cards "VIP" structure.
It was sold out at least as early as Sunday morning, when I tried to get in!
I have noticed that the tournament staff have remarkably have gotten 100% worse from 2013.
examples
- 80% of the dealers I had, could even cut out chips and count them correctly
- once 11 handed (10 gets paid) I asked the women TD are we going to go hand for hand. Her response was "what is that?" I explained and she said "we don't do that here and any player is aloud to call clock on another player for taking to long. I then asked so I can call clock on every player at the other table, she said "no" and then I said that is my point. I then instructed my table that we are 5 handed and will play more hands especially with the short stack at the other table tanking every hand, that we should sit back and take our time. This prompted the TD to find someone that supposedly knew and yes we started hand for hand.
The regular TD (John ???) was not running the tournament like he usually does, but was running one of the pits. Not sure what is going on with that, as he was a pretty good TD their.
In the $550 Deep Stack, in which at least three forumers made the final two tables, some players kept complaining that there was too much play! :rolleyes: As a result, all future Deep Stacks will be 1/3 shorter at only 30-minute blinds.
It appears that John has passed the torch to Jeff, who is now in charge of poker. I signed up for the email list being circulated in the last tournament (sold-out as usual), so it's good that there will be regular poker communication.
Unlike the terrible Fallsview TD, players could easily chat with Jeff without fear of being thrown out of the casino!