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Match Structure
AMRN:
It"s a fact - a better player will usually beat a weaker player in a deeper slower tournament where the clock and structure have less of an impact. In a fast or shallow tourney, there is less room for play, and luck plays a bigger part.
Interesting angle to say that a turbo tourney benefits the better player...... it"s just a series of coin flips, and the luckiest player will win.
Chipaccrual:
Not wishing to get the last word in, but here"s a couple of quotes from web1 on the night of matchday 1.
--- Quote from: web1 on March 11, 2012, 21:01:32 PM ---
Struggling 5k chips. Suffered couple bad beats and getting dealt nothing over 8d. Had to recover and dealer not helping matters.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: web1 on March 11, 2012, 21:20:10 PM ---
Out. 44 on button raises me and I call with AJ all in 3k. Once again Jokerstars bs flops a 4.
--- End quote ---
I get the feeling that you rely a bit too much on the dealer being kind to you. This would backup your theory that weaker players rely on good starting hands, therefore a quicker structure would mean that players see less hands before there is a need to call off your stack with potentially dominated hands like AJ, where at best you are flipping.
The quicker structure will benefit those players who are able to provide controlled aggression and the ability to squeeze and bluff certain positions, but variance will bite you even harder with these strutures.
In a deep stack event, I would take a skilled, experienced, good player over a luckbox fish any day of the week.
And if you were wondering, I am the latter in that choice.
It"s an interesting discussion whichever way you look at it, and life would be boring if everyone thought the same. And sometimes, there is not a right or wrong answer, just good to discuss. ;D
WYoung83:
"In a deep stack event, I would take a skilled, experienced, good player over a luckbox fish any day of the week".
Me too, unless its a guy called Rastafish.
Des:
There has been a great deal of discussion on the structure; particularly on the Captains board, following last weekend"s opening match in the National Online League.
As a result APAT and the Captains have agreed to test a slightly reduced structure for match 2. This will consist of 4,000 starting chips and 12 minute blinds - a structure which is still deeper than PokerStars own deep stack structure. These changes should see the final table completing around 12.30am.
We look forward to seeing you all ahead of match 2 and as always, we will listen to your feedback following that match also - but hope the changes we"ve made will allow an even greater number of players to enjoy the PokerStars.com National Online League.
Captains please inform your players of these changes.
AMRN:
Nice one guys! I think 4k/12 will prove to be a much more appropriate structure for this league.
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