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RioRodent:
Whilst I have always been a supporter of incuding antes in the blind structure for the live national champs, I have to say I"m a bit dissappointed with new structure.  :"(  (I"m embarrassed to say I"ve only just looked at the structure!!  :-[)

Going from 150/300 to 25/200/400 means halving the effective stack sizes at a stroke... remember the campaign to introduce 150/300, for exactly this reason?

Some guesstimate calculations to illustrate the point...

ave. chips appx 10.5k (assuming 5 alternates, followed by 10 eliminations)

@ 150/300 - total/round = 450 - M = 23.33
@ 25/200/400 - total/round = 850 - M = 12.35

coprey:
Have to agree. Dont the blinds normally remain as they were when the antes come in. Then at the next level they continue to go up as normal?

WarBwastardo:
This is the structure they use at DTD, but their games generally have to finish in one day.  Since we have the luxury of two days can we not have 150/300 level and then 25/150/300?  Such a big jump is effectively the same as we were without antes but missing out the 150/300 altogether and going from 100/200 to 200/400.  I think.

RioRodent:

--- Quote from: WarBwastard on February 03, 2009, 20:48:57 PM ---
This is the structure they use at DTD, but their games generally have to finish in one day.  Since we have the luxury of two days can we not have 150/300 level and then 25/150/300?  Such a big jump is effectively the same as we were without antes but missing out the 150/300 altogether and going from 100/200 to 200/400.  I think.

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Is this a thinly veiled, "I"ve made lev 6 of a DTD tourney" post?

AMRN:
I agree - you gotta repeat the previous level when introducing the antes, or the jump is horrible and will take so many people from reasonably stacked to short stacked without touching a card.

Also, I note that the antes are almost always running at 1/8th of the SB....  looking at some other big tournies (was looking specifically at Aussie Millions) the SB wanders anywhere from 1/6th to 1/4th of the SB - this means the pot is so much juicier before the action starts, and obviously makes for much looser play and more steal attempts.  Running antes at 1/8th of SB will decrease that steal value - an 8 seat table will only have equivalent of 1 SB added to the pot by antes..... which means not much difference between having antes and not having antes.  IMO

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