I was curious to know what people thought about beating this tournament structure. I was invited along to a $5 home tournament at the last minute and wasn't sure what the structure, blind levels, etc. were involved ahead of time.
15 players on two tables, started with 2000 each in chips, blinds 25/50, 15 minute levels.
Schedule turned out to be
25/50
50/100
100/200
250/500
500/1000
1000/2000
Winner takes all (except $5 which apparently goes to the house)
It seems to me with this structure, the keys are aggression and luck. Our table was loose passive. The other table sounded more aggressive. Is there any viable strategy (other than not to play)?
Anyway, I probably won't go back as it was a spur of the moment thing and I don't think I can learn much from a tournament with that structure. But I was curious to know what others thought.
As this is chiptalk.net I'll let you know that the tables were nice (to the untrained eye like my own, I'm not a table snob yet - they weren't custom but one looked pretty solid and the other was a 10 player fold-away style), the cards were plastic. The chips, however, were these with slightly different denominations:
http://cgi.ebay.com/500-CLAY-14g-POK...QQcmdZViewItem (Not for the faint of heart). They didn't stack that badly for plastic slugged chips, actually. But now I'm shuffling a Protege sample so all is right with the world again
Regards,
David.
