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TomCollins
04-20-2005, 04:50 PM
I'm not going to find a structure on the web (save the $1000 2-day event at PR) that will be close to the WSOP. The best ones I've seen are the monthly $500-600 tourneys on Party/Stars, in terms of what it will be like.

I'd like to have the following criteria, maybe some site has a decent tournament that I don't know about:

1) Deep stacks
2) Slow Blind Increases
3) Semi-large (not terribly important, but 100+ players)
4) Cheaper the better (not a huge concern)
5) Semi-decent players

Any suggestions?
mts
04-20-2005, 04:58 PM
play some of the smaller buyin wsop events beforehand. 2 weeks of tournies.
Jurollo
04-20-2005, 05:14 PM
bump... curious about the same thing.
~Justin
MLG
04-20-2005, 05:16 PM
$100 or more on UB, thats the way to go. start with 2500 chips and 5-10 blinds.
SoBeDude
04-20-2005, 05:24 PM
itsn't there like more than a full month of tournies before the main event?

-Scott
stinkypete
04-20-2005, 07:52 PM
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itsn't there like more than a full month of tournies before the main event?

-Scott

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yup.
2005
04-20-2005, 08:18 PM
the bigger Full Tilt tournies have good structure too, though they don't get as many players.

Gavin
CardSharpCook
04-20-2005, 09:51 PM
Try to find some good B&M tourneys. Online tournies just don't give you the experience you need for this kind of event. I imagine it is like flying a plane vs. a flight simulator.

CSC
suited_ace
04-20-2005, 10:26 PM
Post the same question @ the B&M forum. You have to have live experience, that's for sure.
shaniac
04-20-2005, 10:30 PM
Im surprised no one has mentioned the Stars $11 rebuy as a worthy training ground....at the start of the second hour, the average stack is about 10K and the blinds are 75/150...there are a ton of players--many of them somehwat clueless--and if you play enough of them, you can sure learn a lot about marathon tournament situations.

Shane
TomCollins
04-20-2005, 10:33 PM
I live 5 hours from a casino. The tournaments that they do have at the nearest casino are truly awful in structure.

I have live expirience, so I'm not terribly concerned there. If I lived in Vegas, the story would be different.
TomCollins
04-20-2005, 10:33 PM
Taking 4 weeks off work will be quite a bit harder than taking off 2.
TomCollins
04-20-2005, 10:34 PM
I did enjoy these tournaments, and did fairly well. We had some manaics at the first table (I think they were regulars of the $100R tourneys), who must have rebought 30 times each. The top three people in the whole tournament were at my table. In fact, I think you might have been one of them Shaniac.