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05-13-2005, 03:00 PM
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| | | The dreaded 11 handed game
Looking for some thoughts from the forum for what you guys do when you end up with 11 players to start a tournament. My stance has always been that it's not fair to start out with tables of 6 & 5, so we start with all 11 together. It's cozy, but not terrible at my table. Anyway, I always have a couple of checkleheads that complain and don't want to start out with 11 at one table.
My feeling is that it's unfair to be at the 5 man table because you get hit by the blinds much faster. Plus, and maybe I'm making this up in my head, it just feels like there's a gear change that happens when a table goes from 6 to 5. I don't really want to have to start a tournament already in that 5 handed gear.
Thoughts? |
05-13-2005, 03:02 PM
|  | Big Stack | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the wonder of it all Age: 34
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| | If you have 11, you play at one table. I agree that splitting 11 up isn't a good idea.
Screw the chuckleheads, you're the host. Go with the 11 on one table.  |
05-13-2005, 03:12 PM
|  | Big Stack | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Greeley, CO Age: 49
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| | I'd say go with 11 at the table - makes things tough but keeps play at the same level and fair for all. 1st person to go out deals the 2nd table with 5 players!!  |
05-13-2005, 03:25 PM
|  | Final Table | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Salina, KS
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| | | We have started with 11 per table several times. It is the best solution when you have either 11 or 22 players. Yes, we have a couple of grumblers, but they grumble about everything else. |
05-13-2005, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Double Eagle We have started with 11 per table several times. It is the best solution when you have either 11 or 22 players. Yes, we have a couple of grumblers, but they grumble about everything else. | It's funny you say that. My grumblers tend to be the same way. I'd kick them out, but their money spends so well. 
One thing that I apparently say quite a bit, because it's become at catch phrase at my game, "This isn't a democracy."
--"It's good to be the Tournament Director!" |
05-13-2005, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff One thing that I apparently say quite a bit, because it's become at catch phrase at my game, "This isn't a democracy." | I like to say my game is a "benevolent dictatorship." |
05-13-2005, 04:06 PM
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| | | 6 and 5 ,11 handed is very dumb. combine once someone gets knocked out |
05-13-2005, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by TomHimself 6 and 5 ,11 handed is very dumb. combine once someone gets knocked out | No, 5 and 6 is dumb to start a tournament. It makes no sense whatsoever to start on with two shorthanded tables and then to a full table after the first one or two people are knocked out.
Eleven handed makes sense, and has been done in casino tournaments as well. |
05-13-2005, 05:12 PM
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| | | 11 handed is awful I would much rather shorthanded even in the beginning of tourney |
05-13-2005, 09:59 PM
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| | No offense, OP, but your stance of "not fair" is baseless. Either way is completely and absolutely fair as long as seating is random. It's your tournemant, do what you want. I would just do one table of 11, but not out of fairness, just to keep my workload down as people get eliminated. I believe I would use the sentence, "We're doing 11 because otherwise it'll be a pain in MY ass."
The blinds coming around faster in the 5 handed game gets offset because the 5 handed game gets more hands per blind level.
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