Comments | wrapper: Holy crap, I did it again!

wrapper

Holy crap, I did it again!

Mar 12, 2004 02:09

After the boy's concert tonight, I got home in time to play in another cheap tournament:

$5 multi-table tourney. Total entrants: 369. First prize: $461.50.I was in second place, trailing about 450k to 90k, when there were just us two left ( Read more... )

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earlylight March 11 2004, 23:14:13 UTC

Holy crap is right!

wrapper March 11 2004, 23:18:29 UTC

I swear, I was just trying to hang on at the final table, hoping to maybe make it into the top five or six -- and the frontrunner took everyone else out one by one, then when it was my turn... I guess his luck just ran out!

So, yeah. Holy crap. Indeed.

earlylight March 12 2004, 08:17:40 UTC

You are doing so well, it's scary.

wrapper March 12 2004, 09:04:11 UTC

Well, let's not go overboard here either -- these aren't the best players in these cheap tournaments. I'm not ready to plunk my cash down for one of those $110 jobbies on the weekend.

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wrapper March 11 2004, 23:21:07 UTC

Thanks... think I need to take a break for a few days though, before this all goes to my head.

Congrats! rawbee March 12 2004, 00:30:52 UTC

So how do these tourneys work? Are there rounds, or do they move people around from table to table as others are eliminated?

Re: Congrats! wrapper March 12 2004, 05:00:32 UTC

They consolidate tables as people drop out. For example, once you go from 369 people (37 tables) down to 360, they'll "break up" a table (usually the one with the fewest people, right after the 361st person gets knocked out) and fill in all the gaps at the other tables.

The trick is, as you go along the "blinds" get higher and higher -- which slowly changes the game as you go along. That's the biggest difference between playing tournaments and playing side games -- and there are different strategies you can use to take advantage of people's style of play as the stakes go higher.