Degree Tourney - Luckfest?
Last year I did well in the Degree Tourney so that might skew my comments a bit, but I thought i'd let you guys know that the changed blind structure has really hurt the better poker player.
I won a walk-up this morning and played the 6pm tourney. The blinds were as follows:
2000 starting chips, 20 minute levels, dealer was good (almost 2 rotations per level)
1. 25/50
2. 50/100
3. 100/200 25 ante
4. 200/400 50 ante
5. 400/800 75 ante
and so on...
I busted in level 4.
Last year as I recall was a slower structure which allowed a player to take flops and not have a pre-flop all-in-fest. But... that's unfortunately changed.
Just to let you guys playing the next few days know, build your stack EARLY and gamble where you can. There isn't time to play 'real' poker and with the blinds/antes doubling every 20 mins, you'll never have enough to be comfortable. Just jam it in there with cards you think are better than the other guy and pray he doesnt suck out.
Good luck!
I won a walk-up this morning and played the 6pm tourney. The blinds were as follows:
2000 starting chips, 20 minute levels, dealer was good (almost 2 rotations per level)
1. 25/50
2. 50/100
3. 100/200 25 ante
4. 200/400 50 ante
5. 400/800 75 ante
and so on...
I busted in level 4.
Last year as I recall was a slower structure which allowed a player to take flops and not have a pre-flop all-in-fest. But... that's unfortunately changed.
Just to let you guys playing the next few days know, build your stack EARLY and gamble where you can. There isn't time to play 'real' poker and with the blinds/antes doubling every 20 mins, you'll never have enough to be comfortable. Just jam it in there with cards you think are better than the other guy and pray he doesnt suck out.
Good luck!
Comments
Last year was considerably slower blinds and much better structure. Difference is that cutting 250 to 20 took 6 hours last year and 4 hours this year so they're just cramming in the bodies so people can claim they played poker in the tourney.
He said they got the camera and showed the hands on all the monitors.
The guy spiked a King, the whole crowd cheered (say it made him feel stupid) and he was done. He said he was so pissed that he couldn't get out of the hall fast enough.