Holdem tournament for a mox ruby in west springfield!!! 10-7-06

[AbouTreeFiddy]

If the mods could move this to the tournament announcement forum that would be gravy.


Beanie exchange is trying something new.  A texas holdem tournament for a mox ruby held at the beanie on saturday october 7th.

the address:
the beanie exchange
632 kings highway
west springfield, ma 01089
phone: (413)731-0001

starts at 12.
buyin:$20.00
prizes:  1st place mox ruby, 2-8 based on attendence. 

The tournament structure is going to follow foxwoods' structure with 8 people per table.

Each player starts with $1500 chips

Blinds go up every 20 minutes.
           
          blinds:         ante:
level 1: 25-50
level 2: 50-100
level 3: 100-200
level 4: 100-200      25
level 5: 200-400      50
level 6: 300-600      75

race up $25 chips

level 7: 400-800      100
level 8: 600-1200    200
level 9: 800-1600    300
level 10: 1000-2000  300

race up $100 chips

level 11: 1500-3000   500
level 12: 2000-4000   500

remove $500 chips

level 13: 3000-6000   1000
level 14: 4000-8000   1000

if the tournament goes past level 14 blinds and ante's will continue to rise every 20 minutes.

Looking forward to  a great turnout, magic players love poker, so this will be your chance to play for a real prize

[hulk3rules]

This structure is really bad.  Let's say you have 40 total players.  After 2 hours when the level is 400-800 there will only by 75 big blinds in play in the entire tournament.  I would suggest a different structure

[AbouTreeFiddy]

this is the exact same structure that foxwoods uses in all of their no limit tournaments.  granted, its been a long time since foxwoods only had 40 players at a NL holdem tourney, they used the same back when they did have a low turnout.  The goal of a tournament isnt to play for 10 hours,  there has to be pressure on people to play hands.

Also, after 2 hours, we should already be near a cut to the final table, so assuming 40 players, when 10 remain, the chip average per player will be 6000.  At 400-800 that buys you 5 rounds which is more then reasonable.

[hulk3rules]

First of all, their structure sucks anyways.  2nd of all, the smallest starting stack in their NLHE tournaments is 2K chips.

Oh well, what would I know about poker anways.  Good luck with your tournament

[AbouTreeFiddy]

If you want to play in the world series with 1 hour levels and 10k starting chips, go to vegas dude.

I know you've been pursuing poker for a long time so you should have no problem beating up on a bunch of scrubs in west springfield.  Why not come down and show us the skills instead of trashing our tournament without even going once.

I'll go 1 further, I'll challenge you to a $100 freezeout Brian.  Friendly competition, it gives you another reason to come and enter the tournament, and maybe walk out with a days pay at a 4-8 table.

[hulk3rules]

Sorry I don't check the site very often so I just saw your post now.  First of all do I know you?  Your sn doesn't ring a bell

My intention was never to trash your tournament, I was just trying to give you some advice.  I hope you have a great turnout.  But I'm actually playing in another tournament that day, so I won't be attending.  Not to be one to back down from a challenge though, if you really want to play me in a freezeout PM me and I can set up a private tournament on Pokerstars.

GL

[Kowal]

So did this happen?  Nobody's posted a word about it yet.

[AbouTreeFiddy]

13 people showed up so we ended up just doing store credit to 1st-3rd instead.  It looks like a tournament like this is going to happen every saturday up at beanie.  Fewer and fewer people keep showing up to the type 1 tournaments there so Dave wants to try something different.