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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I played in a game once that sounded very similar to your experience. Notice I said ONCE! 
Same deal, $50 buy-in and it was a real goofy blinds schedule. We had super awesome dice chips as well starting with 5 colors. On top of that, of course no dealers, but to make it worse, only one deck of cards per table and since it was "too confusing" there were no burn cards.
Between the fact that anyone could smuggle in extra dice chips and the shuffle your own deal and no burn cards leaving it wide open to anyone who could even halfway work a deck, it was just way too open to shadiness for me. Too bad because there were some really bad players there.
I guess the take home message is, if at all possible, find out the blinds schedule and setup from the TD before trying out a new game. |
Similar games run here pretty much daily that are like that, from what I hear. Dice chips, starting with 16 chips totalling just over 16000 (weird number), paper cards that have been around a while, blinds going up every X minutes (not sure, 10 or 15 minutes I guess) AND when a player gets knocked out, and the blinds going up by crazy amounts each time.
A lot of bad players there, but I don't think I could play in a tournament like that. Just too many bad things about it. And one of the guys at work don't understand my problems with it, especially the dice chips (but they're "nice chips"!) and paper card security issues.
