1st off, CONGRATS again on the win at the docks! Well done!
2nd...I agree with you regarding the blind schedule. It is not a game of skill, just mostly luck, with such an aggressive schedule. To me, it is like the shootout in hockey. Deciding a team, skilled sport that lasts an hour with a 10 minute one-on-one lucky shot. But, as in hockey, this is what the fans want (or at least the vocal ones). At the casino, on the first day, last Monday, of the SNGs, there was 14 tourneys held. No one complained about the blind schedule. No one complained about the payout schedule1. No one even complained about how they were paid at the end2. So, as I stated before, the casino is only running these tourneys to please the players; the casino is making less money off of a SNG than a ring game (and even then, the poker room at NFCR equates to zero profit for the bottom line).
1 - In my opinion, the payout should be something other than 50%-30%-20% because the person that wins should win a significant amount more than the person in 2nd. And paying 3rd place?!? Well, I guess because it is historically accurate to pay "win-place-show" but how about they just get their buy-in back? Maybe the payout should be more like 60%-25%-15%. Above all, I like winner-take all; it forces play right to the very end.
2 - Although already changed, the original method of being paid out after you win in the SNG meant having your PAC card and ID ready, the information being sent via a form to the Player's Club booth. Their verification being sent to the cage. The poker room being notified that payment was ready. And finally the player going to the cage, with PAC and ID, to collect!?!?! Now the players are simply paid out at the table.
If your players are happy that's good. Maybe it will lead to touraments etc that I will play in. I think 50/30/20 is reasonable. I attempt to play poker to make money not just to get action (well for me getting action is playing craps). If this is what your players want then I"m glad your giving it to them. Keep up the good work as I thought casino's never listened
Does the casino actually have a tournament director? Someone who organizes big events, or for now are they just running the small events? I think that between the two places, they could run a big tourney and make alot on higher stakes games during it. I will send a resume if they ever decide to hire someone to run big venues.
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1st off, CONGRATS again on the win at the docks! Well done!
2nd...I agree with you regarding the blind schedule. It is not a game of skill, just mostly luck, with such an aggressive schedule. To me, it is like the shootout in hockey. Deciding a team, skilled sport that lasts an hour with a 10 minute one-on-one lucky shot. But, as in hockey, this is what the fans want (or at least the vocal ones). At the casino, on the first day, last Monday, of the SNGs, there was 14 tourneys held. No one complained about the blind schedule. No one complained about the payout schedule1. No one even complained about how they were paid at the end2. So, as I stated before, the casino is only running these tourneys to please the players; the casino is making less money off of a SNG than a ring game (and even then, the poker room at NFCR equates to zero profit for the bottom line).
1 - In my opinion, the payout should be something other than 50%-30%-20% because the person that wins should win a significant amount more than the person in 2nd. And paying 3rd place?!? Well, I guess because it is historically accurate to pay "win-place-show" but how about they just get their buy-in back? Maybe the payout should be more like 60%-25%-15%. Above all, I like winner-take all; it forces play right to the very end.
2 - Although already changed, the original method of being paid out after you win in the SNG meant having your PAC card and ID ready, the information being sent via a form to the Player's Club booth. Their verification being sent to the cage. The poker room being notified that payment was ready. And finally the player going to the cage, with PAC and ID, to collect!?!?! Now the players are simply paid out at the table.
If your players are happy that's good. Maybe it will lead to touraments etc that I will play in. I think 50/30/20 is reasonable. I attempt to play poker to make money not just to get action (well for me getting action is playing craps). If this is what your players want then I"m glad your giving it to them. Keep up the good work as I thought casino's never listened