5 out of 10 double their buy-in tourney: How would you adapt?

[theordinaryboy]

I'm thinking of playing this style of tourney where 10 players buy-in for roughly $300 and 5 of them double up 5 of them lose their buy-in.

How would i adapt my play (standard tight-aggressive early-on/ blind stealing later on) and/or what do people think would be the best way to play these.

The blind structure is also very interesting as each round goes up every 10 mins, with the blinds being 10/20, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400. starting chips = 1500.

Any comments appreciated!!

Cheers

[Nicholasp27]

if half double up and half lose, then there is no rake?

or is it like 10/1 and the 5 winners get 20, not 22?

[theordinaryboy]

there is no rake.

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I'm thinking of playing this style of tourney where 10 players buy-in for roughly $300 and 5 of them double up 5 of them lose their buy-in.

How would i adapt my play (standard tight-aggressive early-on/ blind stealing later on) and/or what do people think would be the best way to play these.

The blind structure is also very interesting as each round goes up every 10 mins, with the blinds being 10/20, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400. starting chips = 1500.

Any comments appreciated!!

Cheers

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I dont know if a tournament to this nature would be that great of an idea, because it gives no incentives to place higher if the top 5 get the same payout. Although it could be good if you can multi-table many of these at once and play a robotic type of game. But at same time i still dont think it will be worth the money unless ur playing for a bigger stake. just my thoughts, good luck

[theordinaryboy]

Yes its flawed by the fact that it doesnt reward the better players, that is true.

Any thoughts on how to play them?

A very tight game seems wise to me as if others double up then it could be possible to get to the bubble without really playing a hand!!

For example

player 1 = 3000
player 2 = 3000
player 3 = 3000
player 4 = 3000
player 5 = 1500
Hero = 1500

[Ixnert]

My first instinct is to say even tighter very early, then aggressively stealing on the bubble (down to 6), which will come earlier than you're used to. I suspect that you'll see even tighter than usual bubble play from most people (thinking, "ok, all I have to do is survive one more spot"), more like you see in the closing moments of a satellite, so stealing ought to be easier.

So your usual game, just more so.

[theordinaryboy]

i was thinking about this, but i thought the purpose of blind stealing is to take advantage of tight players so as to gain a large stack to try and use to come first with later on. However, as first = fifth would i really want to risk pushing the bb from sb with Q high when our stacks are the same with a smaller stack in the game???

[Degen]

I'd fold everything besides AA, KK, QQ and AKs until the blinds grew and a couple donks donked.

7 players and my best guess is you'd be at around level 5. If you picked up a big hand by then and doubled or have a nice stack, continue the above strategy. If you now have less than starting stack...i'd start pushing 1.25-1.75 times per orbit. If blinds grew to lvl 5 or 6 and 6 players, I'd start pushing twice an orbit until I had 3k in chips, then I'd just wait.

Or something.

Sounds fun, where is this?

[theordinaryboy]

what would be your pushing range degen???

[Big Limpin']

Buy a round of triple rye&cokes for everyone at your table. Sit back and fold every hand. Collect prize.

[Nicholasp27]

in normal sngs (3/2/1 payout), u will see big stacks willing to coinflip with smaller ones...u'll see stacks gambling to go for first instead of itm...

but in this one, there is no reason to do gambling and coinflips, so people will prolly really tighten up and your FE will go through the roof on the bubble...people don't care if they have 1 chip or 5000 when itm...they just want to be top 5...so steal steal steal from the mid stacks and leave the smallest stacks, who will gamble cause getting anxious, alone

[jon462]

yes it does, i want in too lol!

[Nicholasp27]

yeah, where is this game hosted at?

[valenzuela]

lol.
I would try to gain a stack by early on agressionn, once u have like 1,5x the original stack u should be able to fold ITM.

[theordinaryboy]

you can play them on prima they are like step 4's. They seem a good idea but we will see.

I like the idea of stelaing from the mid-stacks. Would people still advise pushing with >10bb's or perhaps min=-raising/3xbb raises considering everyone should be so tight around the bubble???