Live MTT Structure Woes (LC)

[MeanGreenTT]

I LOVE to play live and living in Florida, my options are severely limited. We have a dog track and a horse track card room as well as an Indian Hard Rock Casino...none of 'em had great structures but at least some were playable. After tournies were suspended here then re-started, it seems the card rooms have done everything in their power to screw over the players [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

Derby Lane (dog track) used to have a $33+12 for T700, blinds start at 10/15 and go up every 20 minutes. I know the vig SUX but at least the game was playable. I've cashed several times and took 1st once.

After the suspension was lifted and play resumed, the structure had oddly changed. T1500 with blinds at 25/50 for the same buy-in...30xbbs to start. And with 10 hands per round, it's now a TOTAL crap shoot!

Would you even bother playing?

So then I started to play at the horse track, better structure and players but only open during race season and only when the horses actually run. Old structure was T1000, blinds at 10/15 but with 2 extra levels Derby didn't have, 75/150 and 400/800, really made for some nice play. Vig was just as bad but at least you had much more manuvering room.

The season just started on December 10th, so they're back open and my 1st chance to play was last night, and once again, after getting all geared up for my favorite game, I'm shocked as once again, we're being bent over the coals.

New structure, T2500 with blinds at 25/50 for 15 minutes, then 50/100 for 15 min, then 100/200 for 15 minutes. Get a break then 100/200/25 for 20 minutes, all remaining rounds are 20 minutes. 200/400/50, 300/600/75, 500/1000/100, 1000/2000/200. The dealers we SOOOOO inept that during the ante levels we were getting 6 hands per level on average....OMFG!!!! [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

With 30 people left out of 118 runners, average stack was T9000, only issue was blinds were at 1000/2000/200 and we got a total of 5 hands at that level.

Once again...Would you even bother playing?

I really enjoy the live game and now have few to no choices, this really SUX!!!!

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