[UbinTook]

True enough regarding the 60’s, but saying “no SNG is going 2 hours is untrue”. I know for fact of one that went close to 2.5 on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, several others have been close to 2 hours and I am told by supervisory personnel that the average for others is 75-90 minutes.

$95 is arguably about 30-40% less than the average hourly drop in a LLH game; the top section games drop $126 an hour, so even at your level that is a net loss even when considering the SNG lasts only an hour.

Part of my concern is more the long term effect on the community bankroll of the players and its long term effect on the live action games.

SNG’s redistribute and concentrate the available cash to be put in to live play to just a few players. Winners of the SNG’s tend to pocket the prize money, though they might put some back into live play, they will either take some of it and rebuy into another SNG or just retire from playing for the day. You are taking 9 buy ins’ and giving it to 3 players, most of that cash won’t get back into play. (It would ALL be in play in live action). Spreading multiple SNG’s (SIX at a time for periods Tuesday night and Wednesday) at a time exacerbates the issue.

The losers tend to take remaining funds and rather than “waste their time” trying to win it back in live action they “take another shot” in another SNG.

SNG’s make players apathetic to live play, live play becomes boring, and they would rather take the chance to win a larger payout than play for hours for a nominal win. This applies especially to the lower limit players who might see this as an opportunity for bigger payouts with the same risk.
Live action games are breaking because players are leaving to play SNG’s.
BAD, bad, bad.

As profitable as these may seem to players now, the reality is they will hurt the room long term. The number of players (that don’t already come in to the room) these will draw is nominal compared to the potential overall harm they could cause.

Just my opinion