Best donkaments in middle of strip?

[Gambler]

What are the best daily/weekly/whatever tournaments in terms of rake paid (i.e. the Palms has a $40+$15 yikes!!!), startng chips, starting blinds and blind raise times? If I do play any tournies I'd prefer ones where you arent short stacked from the get go with insane blind increase times and all in fests from the start. Or is this just a pipe dream and thats they way they all are.

[B1ight]

i'm not a tournament player so I couldn't tell ya, but I do know the venetion was running a really nice deep stack tournament during the world series. I'm not sure if it is something they always do, but it seemed to be nice, and those that I've talked to says it has really nice structure. I contemplated playing it a few times, and if you have never played at the venetion, come down and say hi =).. my favorite poker room in town.

[Wahoo73]

Las Vegas Poker Tournament Ratings

[danifestmestiny]

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Las Vegas Poker Tournament Ratings

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I like tables and charts as much as the next guy, but can anyone help me decipher the more abstract ratings on that table?

[chucky]

This is very straight forward. The slower the blind structure rises compared to original chips, the better the patience factor. Best patience factor tend to be 200+ dollar buyins. That said some on the list have lower buyins with good structure. BTW this is not updated for changes to Caesar's general tourneys.

[danifestmestiny]

ack never mind I just found out the definitions myself of "patience factors" and the like.

[ijustliketoplay]

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BTW this is not updated for changes to Caesar's general tourneys.

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what changes are they?

[Gambler]

Based on that chart these are the ones I thought looked good (i.e. slower rounds, good starting chips and without high buyins)

Caesars noon $80.00 $50.00 n n $130.00 $4,500 40
11pm $60.00 n $10 n $70.00 $2,500 30

Harrah’s 11am $40.00 $40.00 n $10.00 $90.00 $3,000 20

Treasure Island 2am $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20
7am $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20
11am $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20
2pm $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20
7pm $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20
10pm $60.00 n n $5 $65.00 $3,000 20

Venetian 8pm $125.00 $50.00 n $5 $180.00 $4,500 30



And the winner of donkiest donkament goes to

Luxor 8:30pm $62.00 n n $3.00 $65.00 $300, 15

[PantsOnFire]

I like the Caesar's tourneys weekdays at noon and 7pm and Venetian at 8pm. Caesar's has a brutal blind jump from 75/150 to 100/200/25. But it happens after the second level (and first break) which is 80 minutes in.

The Venetian at noon during the week is expensive at $340 but has about the best structure around. The Caesar's $330 at 3:30 Saturdays is deep as well. Lots of time to play poker in both of those.

[B1ight]

Ti has a nice 60+5 also like 6 times a day? depending on your bank roll... I know Venetion was running a $550...