blinds at Gala have become a bad joke

[chrisbruce]

The sunday night pot limit at the gala used to be one of the best live competitions around. Unfortunately due to a incredibly steep blind structure the latter stages are now just a crap shoot.

I know what you are saying, this is the rant of somebody who just bubbled and is basically sour grapes. Well true I did just bubble but I have been pissed for a while now and believe this forum is the best way to see how others in the comp feel.

Ok the facts.

The £50 sunday at the Gala makes £10 - £12k  which puts on average 440,000 chips in play.

at approx 2am there are 2 tables left(20 players), average chips are 22,000 and the blinds are 1500 / 3000 so a full pot raise is 10,500. half the average stack. hard to get away from

with a 20 minute clock by 3am (11 players ) average chips are 40,000 the blinds are 4000 / 8000 and a full pot raise is 28,000. (now immagine you have done a TK and misread your hand?)

whats more you are 5 / 6 handed so it costs you 12,000 every 6 hands. In real money terms you are paying £300 a round !

At this point I ask myself why I play poker instead of  visiting the casino and playing roulette. I believe poker to be a game of skill as well as chance and would like to feel that near the end of the comp as at the start.

When I have queried the cardroom managers about the situation the only explanation for the new blind structure is to avoid a chip count at the end of the night. I think this is a very weak argument and would prefer the option of a chip count than shoving my stack in with A 6 and hoping nobody calls.

I wont rant on though but merely suggest the soloution to be a capped blind structure or slower clock when you get to 2 tables or less. This will in fact allow for more creative play. i.e. TK can raise with his 9 4 off but not be pot committed when Yo YO Thew re raises him all in with 5 6

There is a lot of money at stake in this comp and its your money not the casinos.

I enjoy my Sunday night poker at the Gala and won't give it up  even if the structure remains the same
I also appreciate the hard work that Rob and Co do for everyone there to make the tournaments go smoothly not an easy task by any means.

But the blind structure !!!!!

[RED-DOG]

IMHO

Comp should start at 7:30

Blinds should start at 25/50

Levels should be 30 min

Starting chips should be 1500

Re buy period should be one hour

[Royal Flush]

Play online!

[Junior Senior]

chris.
i think the crux of the problem is within one line of your post:

"I enjoy my Sunday night poker at the Gala and won't give it up  even if the structure remains the same"


You are unhappy with the situation (like most people are) but..... you will still go! - so what's the incentive for them to change? - if people still turn up then things wont change for the better as the management will just think that it cant be that bad if people still come and play.

I think the place is becoming a bit bad tempered at times (the minority but enough to make it unpleasent) and it is far too smokey - polls have been done, constructive suggestions made but still... no changes for the better. 

I also enjoy my regular sunday live game (but thats as far as it goes for me now i think) - if they improved the blind structure, starting times and the smoke then i would go 4 times a week but for the moment all i can really stand is once a week.

[Karabiner]

Agreed with Junior, and I have been voting with my feet for some time now.

Personally I prefer the tournament to finish than the chip count.

But I also know that Nightfly has tried his utmost for earlier starts to no avail.

[DTD-Nick.W]

As it happens, we got down to the final and got some posotive support from the Managment,

The gave us another 20mins on to the 6000/12000 level and we got an extra 30mins play till 4.30.

This did help as in the end Myself and Kim Costa did the chip count.

Me for the £4700 Kim £4100 so they do listen a little, 
Lets hope they take more notice an early start time would be great as we find ouselves waiting around on a Sunday evening anyway.   

[Karabiner]

Nice result Nick 

[tikay]

He musta got lucky.........

[AdamM]

ahem, cue a couple or storys from mine and Tikays table

hand 1 he mis-read his hand as usual. raising war between him and Dave Smith Tikay announces he has AA, comedy double take and shows J,7. for some reason Dave is at it with 6,4 though and Tikay wins it with J high.

Hand 2 4 players all in before him and he's already bet at it once. he has    and board is  . he figures he has four outs (the fives) and calls all in. one of the guys has  so Tikay has to settle for plan B, runner runner diamond.

then I move in short with AJ and theres a call from 6,6  9,4 and Tikays A,K and he has the nerve to moan when I make a Jack high straight. Your so hard done by Tikay. how ever do you survive with your bad luck

first round of freezeout period and he makes Quad Kings. claims he was setting that up by playing crap earlier

[TightEnd]

first round of freezeout period and he makes Quad Kings. claims he was setting that up by playing crap earlier

most people don't take four years to set up getting paid off with a monster.

[mikkyT]

The sunday night pot limit at the gala

Sorry, can you go into a little bit more detail here?

THE gala where? There is more than one gala. I will presume you are talking about gala casinos and not gala bingo But where do you refer? Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Manchester, Notts, Walsall, Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Sunderland, etc etc etc?

[TightEnd]

Nottingham.

You know, home patch of Robin"tikay" hood and his merry men

[tikay]

first round of freezeout period and he makes Quad Kings. claims he was setting that up by playing crap earlier

most people don't take four years to set up getting paid off with a monster.

WHAT?

 

[Dani Versace]

Goin back the original subjuct

ill offer my humble opinon

For a £50 rebuy comp the chips should be 1500 pts with an 1hr 30 min rebuy period. then the blinds should increase every 25 mins, then the blinds should be capped at 4000/8000 unless there are over 500,000 Chips in play then the blinds should go up one more level 5000/10000

all comps should be played out to a conclusion, if it goes to a chip count so be it.

[Royal Flush]

Does Tikay actually ever win money?