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peterbirks) wrote2006-03-05 08:31 am
peterbirks) wrote2006-03-05 08:31 am
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Rebuy tournies
An excellent thread on Gutshot on rebuy tournaments, summing up as it does many of my reasons for not playing B&M tournaments any more. (http://www.gutshot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37487#37487).
One player complained about being allocated an eight-handed table, claiming that this put him at a disadvantage. Without going into the maths of this (I do so in the Gutshot thread), MattJ replies with an excellent summing up of B&M rebuys, pointing out all those horrible things.
Take last night for example; i started 8 handed on Brunson downstairs. (the really uncomfortable one squished right in the corner). In fact for about 10 mins at the end of the rebuys we seemed to be 7 handed! How many of those seven players made the last two tables? Hmmmm i seem to remember 3 of us at the last two tables. [Myself, busting in ~12th, the nice young asian lad in the grey hoodie whose name i should know but embarassingly don't, busted about 15th and the youngish guy in the blue shirt who made the final].
I can imagine it. Squashed up against the wall, looking at 10-handed tables all around, as you are 7-handed. Despearate for a pee but acessing the loo requires organization of a logistical complexity utterly beyond most B&M poker players. So you hold it in. Oh yes, been there many times. Again? No thank you.
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Here's an indication of the frustrating times that you can go through at Limit (the bottom axis is day-by-day). Luckily I have had good results on other sites to help me out. But Party is meant to be my "bread and butter". More irritatingly, the bad results have always come when I have moved up to $3-$6. I definitely threw away $30 in the past week in poor decisions on the turn and river (and these are ones that I know about) when I should have accepted that my opponent had hit his two-outer and called, rather than re-raised. At $15-$30 the three-bets might have been semi-bluffs, but at $3-$6 they aren't (and, in both cases, they weren't).
It's ridiculously frustrating, because it's not that the standard of play is all that different $3-$6 is just a bit tighter. But I keep walking into a brick wall and having to drop back to $2-$4 because of my weak Party bankroll. Meanwhile I happily play $5-$10 on Ultimate, when the site is working, that is. Eventually I'll get a rush on the $3-$6 and will probably "rush" through it to $5-$10. But it just won't happen for me at the moment.
One player complained about being allocated an eight-handed table, claiming that this put him at a disadvantage. Without going into the maths of this (I do so in the Gutshot thread), MattJ replies with an excellent summing up of B&M rebuys, pointing out all those horrible things.
Take last night for example; i started 8 handed on Brunson downstairs. (the really uncomfortable one squished right in the corner). In fact for about 10 mins at the end of the rebuys we seemed to be 7 handed! How many of those seven players made the last two tables? Hmmmm i seem to remember 3 of us at the last two tables. [Myself, busting in ~12th, the nice young asian lad in the grey hoodie whose name i should know but embarassingly don't, busted about 15th and the youngish guy in the blue shirt who made the final].
I can imagine it. Squashed up against the wall, looking at 10-handed tables all around, as you are 7-handed. Despearate for a pee but acessing the loo requires organization of a logistical complexity utterly beyond most B&M poker players. So you hold it in. Oh yes, been there many times. Again? No thank you.
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Here's an indication of the frustrating times that you can go through at Limit (the bottom axis is day-by-day). Luckily I have had good results on other sites to help me out. But Party is meant to be my "bread and butter". More irritatingly, the bad results have always come when I have moved up to $3-$6. I definitely threw away $30 in the past week in poor decisions on the turn and river (and these are ones that I know about) when I should have accepted that my opponent had hit his two-outer and called, rather than re-raised. At $15-$30 the three-bets might have been semi-bluffs, but at $3-$6 they aren't (and, in both cases, they weren't).
It's ridiculously frustrating, because it's not that the standard of play is all that different $3-$6 is just a bit tighter. But I keep walking into a brick wall and having to drop back to $2-$4 because of my weak Party bankroll. Meanwhile I happily play $5-$10 on Ultimate, when the site is working, that is. Eventually I'll get a rush on the $3-$6 and will probably "rush" through it to $5-$10. But it just won't happen for me at the moment.
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(Anonymous) 2006-03-05 09:37 am (UTC)(link)UB being down recently is probablt +EV for me, less $ to donk away
redsimon
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It was worth 2 minutes of my time to read the demand that players at an 8-handed table were given more chips. Hehe.
Andy.