SteveTheTaxMan
09-14-2004, 01:08 PM
I'm a new poster, so please be patient as this is a multi-part question.
Here's the set-up, but keep in mind that the first round is done, and the final table is going to meet this Friday:
We are holding a 6-table tournament. Since we don't have the room for all of the people at once, we are holding the first round over the course of 2 evenings with the final table to be held the following week. Each of the first 2 nights, we are playing down to 5 people and they take their exact chip count to the final table. Sounds simple enough, but here's the problem:
The first night we got down from 22 to 5 people in about 3 hours and the blinds stopped at 200/400. The second night took much longer. We played with 6 trying to get one person to bust for 2 hours. The blinds got to 300/600. Everyone at the table thought that it was unfair that the blinds were so high when they had stopped at 200/400 the previous night. They stayed at 300/600 for about two hours.
My question is this:
1. Should the blinds have been stopped at the previous night's highest level, or should they have continued to increase every 30 minutes, as set forth in the rules?
2. If we do keep increasing them every 30 minutes, does it give people on one night or the other an advantage over the players from the other night?
The reason that, looking back, I lean towards continuing to increase them is that if the 2nd night had happened first, we wouldn't have know any different, and we would have kept increasing them. I think the fact that we knew what the other night got to, impaired our judgement.
Any thoughts?
Thanks guys.
-Tax Man
Here's the set-up, but keep in mind that the first round is done, and the final table is going to meet this Friday:
We are holding a 6-table tournament. Since we don't have the room for all of the people at once, we are holding the first round over the course of 2 evenings with the final table to be held the following week. Each of the first 2 nights, we are playing down to 5 people and they take their exact chip count to the final table. Sounds simple enough, but here's the problem:
The first night we got down from 22 to 5 people in about 3 hours and the blinds stopped at 200/400. The second night took much longer. We played with 6 trying to get one person to bust for 2 hours. The blinds got to 300/600. Everyone at the table thought that it was unfair that the blinds were so high when they had stopped at 200/400 the previous night. They stayed at 300/600 for about two hours.
My question is this:
1. Should the blinds have been stopped at the previous night's highest level, or should they have continued to increase every 30 minutes, as set forth in the rules?
2. If we do keep increasing them every 30 minutes, does it give people on one night or the other an advantage over the players from the other night?
The reason that, looking back, I lean towards continuing to increase them is that if the 2nd night had happened first, we wouldn't have know any different, and we would have kept increasing them. I think the fact that we knew what the other night got to, impaired our judgement.
Any thoughts?
Thanks guys.
-Tax Man