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kinboshi:
Thought this was going to be about the 150/300 missing level in the APAT tournaments?

;D

Swinebag:

--- Quote from: swordfish on July 15, 2007, 11:24:15 AM ---
If you want ridiculous try the rebuy tournaments at Gala Maybury in Edinburgh.  Starting stacks are 500, blinds 25/50!!

--- End quote ---


I obviously like ridiculous too. Last night PLHE (rebuy for 2 hours), starting stack 1000, blinds 50/100 for 1 hour then 100/200 for 1 hour, then 20 min levels.

General Strategy - limp with any 2 then bet pot if you hit ( by hitting I mean nearly missing as well). In 2 hours I got dealt AK twice (suited once) pocket 10s Pocket Jacks and Pocket Aces. 5 top ten hands in 2 hours. So I was obviously chip leader at the break?

wrong! All were called by at least 2 players. All were rivered.

The only hands I won were with 23suited in the BB which flopped 2 pair and Q10s on the button that made a flush.

The AA was laughable. UTG Pot raise called by 7 players (It was the last hand of the rebuy period). After the flop I was the third person allin (there were another 4 after me) The dealer spent ages working out Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, etc....I eventually lost to 24o which made trips on the river.

Thought for a few seconds about rebuying and adding on for a total of 2000 chips, but given the blinds were 200/400 next level (most good tourneys have 150/300 ;)) and that I had probably had my card rush decided to get an early night and a compus mentus day at work the next day.

I"ve played rebuys before but never one this frantic.

Roll on the next live APAT

PoWdA:
In Colorado the only tournament in the state that has blinds longer than 20 minutes is a $300 buy-in on sunday with 30 minute blinds. Every other tourney is 20 minutes and it is horrible. I feel your pain.

PocketLady:
I agree that tournaments at the Vic have very fast levels.  I recently played a the £30 f/o there, and with a starting stack of 1500 and 20 mins blinds it is a crapshoot.  But to their credit the blind increases are small and include nearly every level (75/150 etc) and it does start with 25/25 which does help out a little.

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