Keeping tables even?

sations · #1 09-28-2005, 04:33 AM

This is something I have had a problem with at my tourneys? We usaually play two tables like 8 and 8 then we get to 10 and go one table. Now when one gets to six and one is at 8. What is the best way to pick who moves? We have been trying to do it by positions. Then we get into what if he was in the blinds or what not?

#2 09-28-2005, 07:01 AM

In all of the larger home tourny's I've been to, they usually do high card. They have the high card go to the other table, starting just to the right of the button. I can't vouch for how effective this is, though.

Zetack · #3 09-28-2005, 09:09 AM

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This is something I have had a problem with at my tourneys? We usaually play two tables like 8 and 8 then we get to 10 and go one table. Now when one gets to six and one is at 8. What is the best way to pick who moves? We have been trying to do it by positions. Then we get into what if he was in the blinds or what not?

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This isn't standard, but at the tourney I was at last night they just moved a guy from the same position as the hole they were looking to fill. So if the guy who got knocked out would have been UTG on the next hand, they moved a guy from UTG on the other table. It's a pretty fair system because nobody gets screwed on position, nothing sucks worse as a short stack to have just gone through the blinds and then get moved to just in front of the blinds on another table.

--Zetack

JimHammer · #4 09-28-2005, 09:55 AM

Here are a couple of options: Home Poker Tourney

Lottery Larry · #5 09-28-2005, 11:34 AM

I use the "closest open seat to the right of the button" method.

Count the number of seats at the short table from the button, then move the player from the fuller table that matches the same position. That gets rid of the "in the blinds" argument. It also gives the moving player the least disadvantage of moving to a new table.

TheBlueMonster · #6 09-28-2005, 11:38 AM

high card

Lottery Larry · #7 09-28-2005, 11:46 AM

Nah, it doesn't solve the "moving into the blinds" problem.

Moving by matching seat position is just as random and doesn't gain/lose anything in positional advantage.

dandy_don · #8 10-01-2005, 05:30 AM

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Nah, it doesn't solve the "moving into the blinds" problem.

Moving by matching seat position is just as random and doesn't gain/lose anything in positional advantage.

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Agreed. This is the way it should be done to insure that one isn't punished or aided by the move by either paying the blinds again or skipping the blinds altogether due to the move.