17 way chop - was it a good decision

[cabiness42]

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"don't waste your time on that nonsense tournament anymore."


For some reason I am in disagreement with the majority opinion about this issue.
Depending on the juice, etc etc I think these turbo-type tourneys can be extremely profitable against a bunch of players who have no idea how to adjust.

Live, low buy-in type tourneys are going to have fast-ish structures no matter what. Everyone wants super deep-stack, long-structure tourneys even if it's only a $50 buy-in but that just isn't very realistic.
The players in these can be so spectacularly bad and fail to adjust for the structure that I have to imagine they can be extremely profitable if the juice isn't awful.

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I'm headed out to Vegas in a couple weeks and am going to be playing some of these cheap tournaments with bad structures. What are the proper adjustments to make?