Poker rooms in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area? - Page 2

Chief911 · #11 05-22-2007, 11:05 PM

I talked to someone who made the 10 person FT in the last one. They did a 10 WAY CHOP. It was their way of protesting the fact that by the FT the structure was so bad that they felt it was practically unplayable.

Nick

Your Mom · #12 05-23-2007, 04:12 PM

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I talked to someone who made the 10 person FT in the last one. They did a 10 WAY CHOP. It was their way of protesting the fact that by the FT the structure was so bad that they felt it was practically unplayable.

Nick

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I heard about the 10 way chop and was wondering why that happened. That's as good a reason as any.

Chief911 · #13 05-23-2007, 09:32 PM

Its really sad when there is no thought that goes into structure.

I actually had a fairly long conversation with Brian regarding the structure. He strongly asserted that the 30 minute blind levels were GREAT (5000 chips maybe?).

I pointed out that for a $100 tournament with $15 juice, that 3k starting chips and 20 minute levels is somewhat standard (Although it could be alot better). He still felt that 50 or 60 minute levels for a $500 buyin tournament were too long, because it would suck up too much dealer time.

But when I pointed out that for a 6 hour tourney with 100 players, they are making $900 ($150/hr) in juice based on the $100+15 structure. For a 12 hour tourney with 100 players with a $500+50 structure, they would make $5000 ($416/hr).

Amazingly, he seemed really genuinely suprised. Like they had never considered that possibility. They basically admitted it was going to be hard to draw that many people to a $500 tourney with such bad structure.

Oh well.

Nick

Your Mom · #14 05-24-2007, 11:42 AM

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Its really sad when there is no thought that goes into structure.

I actually had a fairly long conversation with Brian regarding the structure. He strongly asserted that the 30 minute blind levels were GREAT (5000 chips maybe?).

I pointed out that for a $100 tournament with $15 juice, that 3k starting chips and 20 minute levels is somewhat standard (Although it could be alot better). He still felt that 50 or 60 minute levels for a $500 buyin tournament were too long, because it would suck up too much dealer time.

But when I pointed out that for a 6 hour tourney with 100 players, they are making $900 ($150/hr) in juice based on the $100+15 structure. For a 12 hour tourney with 100 players with a $500+50 structure, they would make $5000 ($416/hr).

Amazingly, he seemed really genuinely suprised. Like they had never considered that possibility. They basically admitted it was going to be hard to draw that many people to a $500 tourney with such bad structure.

Oh well.

Nick

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I don't think much of Brian or any of the other floors or management. Some of them are nice guys but they don't know [censored] about poker. They'd be better off letting someone like Todd (the dealer) run the room.