Party Poker's STEPS Sit and Go challenge -inneresting.

[whiskeytown]

This is interesting -

http://www.partypoker.com/news/event...llenge-04.html

sorta like a multi-stage Sit and Go tournament...with a few chances to recover and bounce back. Probably will require being played more like a satellite then a normal SNG till the final level.

and I just realized the levels are timed instead of every 10 hands....that's important too...a bit more time to play right.

I'm gonna give it a shot....looks like they're having problems filling those 5th seats, but what the hell...I'm bored.

RB

[adanthar]

Goddammit. Now I'm going to have to switch some $ to Party from PN just for this.

Somebody report how the Step 1's and 2's are. I'm guessing horribly bad and +EV, enough to make me give up on super qualifiers?

[skirtus]

Do you have to continue to the next step immediately? Or once you qualify for next step you can do it at your leisure.

[whiskeytown]

well, it's been 10 min. in this one and no one's busted out yet, though it's close for 1 or 2 - that's not normal...LOL

I think they start a bit tighter....

but the thing is, I don't think you can cash out - I think if you have a thousand dollar entry to Step 5 that you can't just cash it out, but have to play it freeroll style.

which is a drag, and of course, a flatter payout structure (top 4 generally get entry to the next game, next two get to repeat a step.) -

RB

[whiskeytown]

leisure...you get freeroll dollars, I think, which you can use at your leisure.

I'll let you know....

RB

[texasrattlers]

I hope Stars picks up on this idea. I refuse to play on Party.

[adanthar]

I just installed Party and the lineup on the Step 5 that's running right now looks like this:

CK_CRUEL
Gigabet (hiya)
EZmuck
The_Huncher
sklanskysux
PaiGowPro
Resolute78

and a dozen others most of whom seem kinda familiar. Yeesh.

The level 3's and level 4's seem more friendly, though. The 3's in particular are probably easier since all the cool kids buy into the 4's.

[Greg Zabawa]

It would be a lot more interesting if more people knew about it. It takes forever to fill up Steps 3-5.

[FishBurger]

So Party has invented a way to serve up a few po' $11 players directly to the likes of Gigabet? I bet those big-dollar players are drooling at just the thought of it.

[Apathy]

The Best SNG players on party surely love the idea of playing a 1000 dollar SNG with some regular players of the 20's and 30'2 who would never dream of taking them on otherwise. I find it pretty hard to believe that even your average 50+5 player could actually catch lucky enough to cash in this thing even ONCE in over 100 tries (starting at step 2) I dont think you would even see many of them making it to the final step. Then again this is Party and the few that do make it will surely make playing these things HIGHLY profitable.