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inthebelly:
although i never played the tournament this weekend i followed it on the excellent live update thread,was i the only one who felt it became very crapshooty from a long way out?

would love feed back from those who participated.

wasn"t the whole idea of these tournaments to give amateurs a taste of the structures offered in a pro tournament ?

personally i dont think a 40 min clock offers this as the whole tournament took less than 16 hours to complete.

i may b wrong here as i have no experience of going deep in an apat tourni so your views please

TightEnd:
A lot of thought has gone into the structures, refined and fed back after each event

10,000 starting chips, 40 minute clock..150-300 level included. Thats a "festival" structure

Not a single complaint about the structure from the players...interested to hear if they think otherwise on here

If the feedback overwhelmingly suggests change we will of course listen


In any large number freezeout event there is always a stage where medium stacks feel the pressure...typically 30 to 10 runners out and the start of the second day usually sees a lot of all-in poker..the stacks then consolidate and yesterday the final played out over 3 hours plus, or over four levels  

matt674:
I played my first APAT event this weekend and personally i didnt think there was anything wrong with the structure - I knew about it before hand and knew roughly where i needed to be before each level began. I knew that after dinner the blinds were going to be at a level where short stacks only had one move so the plan was to be at least twice the starting chips. Those who decide to take it easy the first few levels will get caught out later in the day but those who keep their stack on a steady increase will constantly have more than 20 bb"s which i did most of the way - i only fell below this by the time we got to 800/1600 with 28000k but even then i never felt that i was in too much trouble, there were still good opportunities to get chips from others.

Have a plan of strategy in mind before the tourney starts and the structure isn"t a problem - the 6 outers on the river however is a different matter entirely!! :"(

busman:
couldn`t agree more matt,  being my first apat tourney, i felt the structure leaded itself to some interesting plays while still making sure you had to know where you were at each level.

the fact of not getting any hands for 2 hrs and a raising station at the other end of the table didnt help but still felt i did nothing wrong in my short stint in the tourney.

hope you can make the nuts league after your trip to spain (if you are the matt in between myself and mary)!!!

as for the apat and fitz staff they were all great and did a wonderful job during the weekend, and under some stressful times.

a completely enjoyable weekend and i for one cant wait for the next live game.  ;D

inthebelly:

--- Quote from: TightEnd on June 04, 2007, 07:05:02 AM ---
A lot of thought has gone into the structures, refined and fed back after each event

10,000 starting chips, 40 minute clock..150-300 level included. Thats a "festival" structure

Not a single complaint about the structure from the players...interested to hear if they think otherwise on here

If the feedback overwhelmingly suggests change we will of course listen


In any large number freezeout event there is always a stage where medium stacks feel the pressure...typically 30 to 10 runners out and the start of the second day usually sees a lot of all-in poker..the stacks then consolidate and yesterday the final played out over 3 hours plus, or over four levels  

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ive never played a festival event with a 40 min clock

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