Just back from a tournament that was pretty tilting due to a few things (busting just before the final table being one of them!)
It was an accumulator tournament with 5 day 1s (€60). You could play all 5 Day 1s and combine your chips for Day 2. You could also buy in on Day 2 for €200 and get a 100k stack. (average stack was 130k starting Day 2)
1. Each Day 1 was a multi-entry. Not a huge deal and it usually means some dead money, but should it be a single entry on each day 1 seeing as you can enter 6 times as it is?
2. What should the min cash be? They had it at €300 which i thought was far too high. I would have had it at €200 to cover the Day 2 entry, but it's up to each player how much they want to put into the tournament. I don't think they should be accommodated by the min cash. (You could actually buy in 17 places off the money wit 16bb)
3. The payout structure was horrendous. 17-32 place all got €300, then there were pay jumps to €330 and €350, up to 8th place getting €400. It tilted me so bad.
4. They chipped up twice. Both times during the break when they asked players to leave, and my stack was decimated because i was the chip leader at the table both times. I watched the whole first one for 10 mins, and despite the dealer and another chipping up, not once did either of them confirm the stack/amounts before taking from my stack. I know my stack was off the first time after it, and also seemed to be off the second time. I really should have counted it before/after the break.
5. Hand for hand last 18 minutes and we played 3 hands. The clock wasn't stopped. Yes or no these days?
6. When there were 30 players left, we were playing 7,5,5,6,7 handed and they wouldn't balance the tables (Similar situations from just after the bubble). According to them, if there's a '2 person gap' between players you can play on, so they waited until we got to 28 players before breaking 5 tables into 4... What's the rule here? We were 9 handed all day if that matters.
7. It was a big blind ante, so some weird levels. Dealers had a nightmare deciding whether it was a full ante or half ante depending on how many players at the table. Some of them also had no concept of what the min 3bet is.
All in all, it made for a pretty tilting tournament, and this is the best of the casinos in Malta with the highest quality dealers.
It was an accumulator tournament with 5 day 1s (€60). You could play all 5 Day 1s and combine your chips for Day 2. You could also buy in on Day 2 for €200 and get a 100k stack. (average stack was 130k starting Day 2)
1. Each Day 1 was a multi-entry. Not a huge deal and it usually means some dead money, but should it be a single entry on each day 1 seeing as you can enter 6 times as it is?
2. What should the min cash be? They had it at €300 which i thought was far too high. I would have had it at €200 to cover the Day 2 entry, but it's up to each player how much they want to put into the tournament. I don't think they should be accommodated by the min cash. (You could actually buy in 17 places off the money wit 16bb)
3. The payout structure was horrendous. 17-32 place all got €300, then there were pay jumps to €330 and €350, up to 8th place getting €400. It tilted me so bad.
4. They chipped up twice. Both times during the break when they asked players to leave, and my stack was decimated because i was the chip leader at the table both times. I watched the whole first one for 10 mins, and despite the dealer and another chipping up, not once did either of them confirm the stack/amounts before taking from my stack. I know my stack was off the first time after it, and also seemed to be off the second time. I really should have counted it before/after the break.
5. Hand for hand last 18 minutes and we played 3 hands. The clock wasn't stopped. Yes or no these days?
6. When there were 30 players left, we were playing 7,5,5,6,7 handed and they wouldn't balance the tables (Similar situations from just after the bubble). According to them, if there's a '2 person gap' between players you can play on, so they waited until we got to 28 players before breaking 5 tables into 4... What's the rule here? We were 9 handed all day if that matters.
7. It was a big blind ante, so some weird levels. Dealers had a nightmare deciding whether it was a full ante or half ante depending on how many players at the table. Some of them also had no concept of what the min 3bet is.
All in all, it made for a pretty tilting tournament, and this is the best of the casinos in Malta with the highest quality dealers.
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