Re: Please Help - Urgent blind situation
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So they play with say 35 chips to start, and raise as follows every 15 minutes: 1/2-2/4-3/6-4/8-5/10-6/12-7/14-8/16-9/18-10/20-11/22-12/24-13/26-you get the picture.
(and you wonder why the 1st big stack will usually win if the game ever even ends.
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I think that's more due to the fact that you only start out with 17.5 big blinds, which means if you dont catch some cards right out of the gate, youre going to be short-stacked relatively quickly (say your ten-handed table plays 60 hands per hour [lightning fast for a live game]; if you dont see a hand by the first blind increase, you'll have gone through the blinds once and now have a stack of 32 chips, or only eight big blinds at the new level! You're already short-stacked, and it's only been fifteen minutes!)
The key isn't how much your starting stack is (dude this tourney sucks - you only start out with T1,000! At the other site I played on, they always start you out with T1,500), but how big it is relative to the blinds. Here, it doesn't matter that they go up to a strange amount - what matters is you are pretty much starting out as a medium-short stack.
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