ThinkQuick
02-11-2005, 04:08 AM
Hi,
We ran a fun tournament before the superbowl, but not without a few hitches. Just wanted to know if you think these problems were one-time hitches, not real problems, or systematic in nature.
14 people, many new players - $20 buy in. No rebuys, top 3 paid. T1000 and We used the blind schedule off Homepokertourney.com (Blinds Samples (http://www.homepokertourney.com/blinds_samples.htm) ), at 20 min intervals.
1) We had two tables of 7 players, but when ours got down to 4, (and one of those was running pretty low), we requested that the player in the CO from the larger table be moved to our table at the CO. During the hand that this anouncement was made (has to happen dosen't it), this particularl player won an enormous amount from the other two chip heavyweights at his table and his joining us crippled them. Should we have just waited 1 player till it was final table time?
It was actually a while though before one more person was eliminated, enough for the blinds to escalate , and here comes problem 2.
2) The schedule gets from 10-20 to 25-50 over 4 levels, then jumps to 50-100 in the 5th level. Maybe we should've softened this a bit but didn't anticipate a problem at all.
This level came in right at the time of the final table, and was actually rather punishing on many guys with little chips. We did want to go a bit fast so that the newbies didn't get so many extra chances, but maybe since we didn't have any rebuys there just wasn't enough chips to support this.
3) The blinds schedule in general may have been a bit unsuitable. I mean, 4 players were eliminated in the first hour - and a few more in the next, but 3 out of the top 5 were scaredy scared to get this far and not get paid, which allowed me to expand my stack for sure but getting down to two took an inordinate amount of time.
So, uh, what do we do next time?
Thanks,
Jonthan
We ran a fun tournament before the superbowl, but not without a few hitches. Just wanted to know if you think these problems were one-time hitches, not real problems, or systematic in nature.
14 people, many new players - $20 buy in. No rebuys, top 3 paid. T1000 and We used the blind schedule off Homepokertourney.com (Blinds Samples (http://www.homepokertourney.com/blinds_samples.htm) ), at 20 min intervals.
1) We had two tables of 7 players, but when ours got down to 4, (and one of those was running pretty low), we requested that the player in the CO from the larger table be moved to our table at the CO. During the hand that this anouncement was made (has to happen dosen't it), this particularl player won an enormous amount from the other two chip heavyweights at his table and his joining us crippled them. Should we have just waited 1 player till it was final table time?
It was actually a while though before one more person was eliminated, enough for the blinds to escalate , and here comes problem 2.
2) The schedule gets from 10-20 to 25-50 over 4 levels, then jumps to 50-100 in the 5th level. Maybe we should've softened this a bit but didn't anticipate a problem at all.
This level came in right at the time of the final table, and was actually rather punishing on many guys with little chips. We did want to go a bit fast so that the newbies didn't get so many extra chances, but maybe since we didn't have any rebuys there just wasn't enough chips to support this.
3) The blinds schedule in general may have been a bit unsuitable. I mean, 4 players were eliminated in the first hour - and a few more in the next, but 3 out of the top 5 were scaredy scared to get this far and not get paid, which allowed me to expand my stack for sure but getting down to two took an inordinate amount of time.
So, uh, what do we do next time?
Thanks,
Jonthan