Why was I not warned?

[Chief911]

I was surprised to see no discussion of Harrah's WSOP double shootouts that are going on at all of the Harrahs.

I played in one of these today, and WOW, what an awful format.

15 minute blinds. Everyone started with 3000 chips. Starting blinds were 25/50. Sounds reasonable huh? Next we went to 50/100. Again, reasonable. Oh, here comes the pain. 3rd blind level was....200/400. WHAT? 200/400? What happened to 75/150, or 100/200, or 150/300? And the 4th blind structure was 400/800. So, 45 minutes into the single table tournament, the blinds were approximately 1/4 of the starting stack.

After the break, the blinds inexplicable took a break from going up madly, and went up to 500/1000. Weird. Then next was 1000/2000. Wonderful.

Anyone else surprised at the complete lack of decent structure for this? They could have simply added another 4 blind levels and the tourney last an extra hour (Instead of 1.5 hours). Would that have been such a crime?

/whine off

Nick

[Myrtle]

...gotta love it, eh?

Seems as if more & more rooms are doing this.....

How's it feel to be made to feel as if you're a piece of red meat?

Caveat Emptor is the operative phrase, I believe.

It's ALWAYS all about the money.....

[niin]

They're doing these at Harrah's or at the Horseshoe? I'm gonna be in Vegas next month sometime and might hit up some of the WSOP satellites if any are running.

[SoCalPat]

What's the buy-in? Given what I understand about double-shootout formats, it's $100 plus an entry fee, right?

[Chief911]

$220. First is the 10k + 2k travel and expense I think. Second and third also pay out some significant cash, because the total prize pool is $20k (100 people times 200$)

Nick