Re: Does this structure promote absurdly tight play?
It's not particularly good, but if you sit in it for 2 hours prior to their daily tournament, you get a 50% bonus in tournament chips on your buy-in. The casino does this to draw folks into live games before their tournaments. I think it's funny that they changed to such a tight structure, since they're killing their rake and the dealer tokes by making the pots so small.
I played in a limit HE tournament there yesterday. If I hadn't had the extra bonus chips from playing the stud game, I'd have been knocked out just out of the money. As it was, I got lucky and snuck into 2nd place. That makes up for "playing" 2 hours of stud and not playing a single hand...although I'm not sure how many hands I'd have played in a more traditional structure, since my cards were truly horrible.
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