Party versus Stars (structure)

[mrbaseball]

I have been playing mostly at Stars because I prefer the starting 1500 vs the starting 1000 at Party. But it's an illusion. Party is much better.

I got pretty deep into the $10 rebuy yesterday (12th) when it really dawned on me! These blinds (and antes!) were going up way too fast. Even with 300K plus and all the extra rebuy chips in the game you could really only play one hand and it was do or die basically.

So I crunched some numbers looking at Party structure versus Stars. Even with only 1000 starting chips Party starts lower, goes up slower, doesn't have antes, and has 10 players tables making the blinds come slower.

Assuming 15 hands per round and not playing a hand and folding all of your blinds you would be out in mid level 6 on Stars but you would last to mid level 7 on Party. Plus if you add up all the blinds (and antes!) you would pay though level 15 the difference is astounding!

Once again assuming 15 hands per round through 15 rounds you would pay 22875 in blinds on Party compared to Stars where you will pay 86460 in blinds and antes. About 3.8 times more on Stars than Party. Starting with 1.5 times more chips just doesn't make up for that!

Maybe I have too much time on my hands [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I'm sure many of you already figured this out. Just found it toi be an eye opener.