SoCal tournies with the best structures?
 

I live in Orange County and play down at Ocean's 11 in Oceanside most often, but have no problems playing in LA. I haven't played tournies at too many B&M's, but the ones I have all have crappy structures. It's like they do everything they can to get them over with and don't pay very many people. They all have had some combination of the following:
- Lightning fast levels (10-15 minutes)
- Blinds that double every round, instead of smaller increments
- Small starting chipstacks
- Antes that begin really early
- Only pay one table, even with fields of 200-300

I do fairly well playing tournies online, but I've never found a live tournament that I liked. Out of the regular tournies (daily or weekly)that have fairly low buyins ($100 or less), which have the best structures? I want to be able to play a tight game and not feel hurried when after the first hour or so the blinds and antes are insanely huge relative to the chipstacks. I'd love a 5-6+ hour tourney instead of the 3-4 hour tourney that many regular ones become.

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they're all the same Davey, why do people expect casinos to put themselves out for a $100 buy in where they're only seeing $20 per entrant...

your best bet is to play the $500 or higher tournies when the WPT is in town at the Commerce and/or Bike.

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I know they are close to the same, and I understand the cost implications to the casinos, but I'm looking for the one that is the best. I'm not expectign a perfect structure that doesn't include all those things I listed.

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Sorry Davey,,,,You will not find a live tourney with $100 buy-in that meets the criteria you are looking for. After the WPT commerce will go back to their daily tourneys with $200-$400 buyins depending on the day but those rarely run more than 3 hours but they are beatable.

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Try the ones at the Bike. Slightly longer levels(20 minutes) and a few intermediate levels...blinds will not double every round.

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low limit live tournies are -EV, with the combination of terrible blind levels, bad payout structures, and slow players, their a waste of time for trying to consistenly win money.

play the $10 rebuy on stars, your money will go lots farther.

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low limit live tournies are -EV, with the combination of terrible blind levels, bad payout structures, and slow players, their a waste of time for trying to consistenly win money.

play the $10 rebuy on stars, your money will go lots farther.

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As for your first point, I agree somewhat, that's why I'm looking for something slightly more +EV to gain live tourney experience from before I start shelling out $500+ a tourney.

As for your second point, that has absolutely zero to do with the question I had. This is a B&M forum, so I'm looking for B&M answers.

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I know my 2nd point was irrelevant but I was just trying to point out if you're a good tourney player, and I assume money is your motivation, live tournies aren't really the best way to go (especially for the low limit ones)

but I take your point as a valid one

btw - I am aware this is a BM forum

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http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tour...nt.php?tid=650

Sycuan casino in East San Diego is having tournaments for the next two weeks under $150 dollars each. All of them feature 30 minute blind levels. Not sure on starting stack or blind structure. There were around 200-300 people for most of the tournaments last year.

Re: SoCal tournies with the best structures?
 

WSOP Circuit at Rincon 2/26/6 for $300 +#40 over your price but should have a good structure.