Whats the worst structure tournament you have played?

[Royal Flush]

I played the £10 rebuy at salford last night, for the first and last time.

1000 points, 2 1hr levels of rebuys.

Level 1 50-100 (10bb's!!)
Levels 2 100-200 (5bb's!!)

The after the rebuys it was 20 min levels, going str8 to 200-400.

It started as 12 players on a table, just stupid.

So is there a worse tournament?

[The_nun]

I was also there..not a very enjoyable game I must say..

[owner]

That's the same structure as Blackpool. 

[Royal Flush]

I was also there..not a very enjoyable game I must say..

Looking at your pic, i now remember seeing you!!

You were sat on 1 of the tables up against the wall facing into the cardroom, i was the fish on the table u looked at str8 infront of you, with the white shirt on. Ginger was there also there wearing a blue square fleece.

How did you do in the end?

[mikkyT]

Stanard Glasgow structure:-

Riverboat £5/£10 unlimited rebuys, 1000 chips
£20 unlimited rebuys, 1500 chips.
50/30/20 is the prize structure. £5 games have a max of 66 players as they are held on the night where the casino shuts earlier (the real reason is because they don't want to add extra members of staff to handle the extra number of bingo buy-ins).

1hr 45mins 50-100, end of buyin period. Topup for same amount of chips.
Race off the 50 chips.
15 min break.

100-200
Then every 15 mins (sometimes 20 depending on the closing times).
200-400
300-600
500-1000
700-1400
race off the 100 chips.
1000-2000
1500-3000
race off the 500 chips (they usually just do a direct change up at this point).
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
5000-10000

Wabash differs slightly... you get 2000 chips instead of 1000, but the blinds start at 100-200 still only giving you 10 BBs.

[RED-DOG]

Annabelles Coventry, £10 rebuy, 1000 chips, 15 min clock, cant re buy until every last chip has gone

[mikkyT]

cant re buy until every last chip has gone

Ouch.. that's the way I like to play when I'm low on cash... I like "chip and a chair" comebacks...

At least here you can re-buy when you are down to half the number of chips.

Red, how did you find the Stanley compared to other events? What was their structure like? I didn't bother going over in the end, but I wish I had at least tried a satellite. Looking forward to the next festival in a few months though.

[londonpokergirl]

Id have to say Gutshot tournaments  £5 is 500 chips  30min clock then after 1hr is 20min clock
£10  1000 chips but 20min blinds,   £20  1000chips  20min blinds  etc etc   

Even the £250 freezeout is only 5000chips

and also normally regardless of how many runners only normally pay top table

[The Truth]

I have to say that the structure at Saturday's NECS is pretty damned near the worst I have ever seen. CHIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RED-DOG]

cant re buy until every last chip has gone

Ouch.. that's the way I like to play when I'm low on cash... I like "chip and a chair" comebacks...

At least here you can re-buy when you are down to half the number of chips.

Red, how did you find the Stanley compared to other events? What was their structure like? I didn't bother going over in the end, but I wish I had at least tried a satellite. Looking forward to the next festival in a few months though.

It was a bit of a curate's egg, I liked the 45 min clock and 6k chips, I didnt like the one re buy, rather have a freeze out or a double chance, and I didnt like the very top heavy prize structure (1st, 40%, 2nd, 20%

[snoopy1239]

I played the £10 rebuy at salford last night, for the first and last time.

1000 points, 2 1hr levels of rebuys.

Level 1 50-100 (10bb's!!)
Levels 2 100-200 (5bb's!!)

The after the rebuys it was 20 min levels, going str8 to 200-400.

It started as 12 players on a table, just stupid.

So is there a worse tournament?

Yes. That is terrible. Bingo time mi thinks. 

[ifm]

how about a sat i played yesterday:-

$11 buyin
100 chips (yes 100 chips!!!)
blinds 10+20 (yes 10+20!!!)
5 minute levels
60 seconds thinking time!!

I had to have a go, i thought it would be really fun (went allin first hand UTG and all fold!! lol).
Was interesting but if you last a round you should be happy!!
Ian

[TheJagster]

I was there too.............horrible tourney.....suppose i'd have said different though if I had walked away with some cash!!!!!

Ive played similar structures elsewhere in small stakes poker.....maybe its a case of getting what you pay for.

Sorry Nun...I'd have come over and said 'ello if i'd realised it was you.

What made matters worse is the terrible dealer we had towards the end of the rebuys.......he made silly comments all the time.....shouted 'fish' at people when he gave them their cards and couldn't even be bothered to iron his shirt.

Tut.....Kids these days!!!!!!

 

[The_nun]

I arrived in Manchester last night to try and calm down from an earlier game of Lottery in Blackpool. It would take me far too long to explain everything that had taked place, but I totaly lost the plot at B/pool, due to getting down to the last 16 people with a v. good stack in front of me, only to be cheated out of a pot by "house rules". Basically guy to my left was on what i thought was a bb steal, I asked to see what chips he had left but he would not show me(this went on for a while). So I said re- raise the pot. Matey is now getting a fair bit of stick from others on the table due to this, he eventually calls my bet showing A 4 off, my hand A 2 ( don't ask ). Board comes,  all overcards . I  hit the table twice , meaning chop chop, turn to talk to guy on my left, looked back and  all the chips had found themselves in front of Matey. At this point I am trying to figure WTF had happened. I heard another guy say that was a split pot. I said yes, that is what i thought. Out of 5 witnesses on that table in my favour the card room managment decided to stick to house rules and gave matey the bennifit of the doubt. I said surley if that is the case he should of shown me his stack, this guy also swore at me, but all he got was " dont d o it again you are aware of the rules". Needless to say the ramiainder of my stack which was still large went in 2 hands. I could not get out of there fast enough.

[The_nun]

Btw, the management had not witnessed the hand, and we had a player/dealer who said that he pushed the chips towards fastfingered matey.     I think i came the closest to showing myself up ever yesterday.