Swinging Like A 70's Disco
The Luton festival has been and gone and to be honest the three tournaments I have played have been somewhat perculiar.
Fair play and much kudos to Luton casino, they give their regular customers the extended play they request for playing tournaments that have a larger buy-in than the regular weekly schedule. However the upshot is a lot of chips and small blinds, with fields that generally don't really want to play any hands until it becomes a crap shoot later anyway. Conversly I, along with a few others I could mention, saw it as an opportunity to play lots of hands early on. And that I certainly did. In the 750 double chance I played every hand for the first hour and a half (seriously if you don't beleive me ask Ayman Asif) and a few witnessed my brutal assault on everyone including myself.
Playing every hand is something of a dangerous policy. You're as much a danger to yourself as you are to others, and whilst I accummulated plenty of chips I also set fire to a few as well. After a five hours or so and my chips stack swinging like a 70's disco I had double the average with 30 players left. I then decided to move all in drawing dead on the turn. Note to self: It's very hard to raise pre flop, bet the flop and check-raise on the turn to represent trips when your opponent has trips!
To be honest I think Luton gives too many chips for the smaller comps such as the 200 freezout and the 500 pot limit. In my opinion tournaments are meant to be something of a gamble, and a chance to win a chunk of money in a fairly fast time. Consequently few players are eliminated early on and the tournament is dormant for 2 hours. However the slow structures fill the card room so I guess from their point of view they must be doing it right.
Fair play and much kudos to Luton casino, they give their regular customers the extended play they request for playing tournaments that have a larger buy-in than the regular weekly schedule. However the upshot is a lot of chips and small blinds, with fields that generally don't really want to play any hands until it becomes a crap shoot later anyway. Conversly I, along with a few others I could mention, saw it as an opportunity to play lots of hands early on. And that I certainly did. In the 750 double chance I played every hand for the first hour and a half (seriously if you don't beleive me ask Ayman Asif) and a few witnessed my brutal assault on everyone including myself.
Playing every hand is something of a dangerous policy. You're as much a danger to yourself as you are to others, and whilst I accummulated plenty of chips I also set fire to a few as well. After a five hours or so and my chips stack swinging like a 70's disco I had double the average with 30 players left. I then decided to move all in drawing dead on the turn. Note to self: It's very hard to raise pre flop, bet the flop and check-raise on the turn to represent trips when your opponent has trips!
To be honest I think Luton gives too many chips for the smaller comps such as the 200 freezout and the 500 pot limit. In my opinion tournaments are meant to be something of a gamble, and a chance to win a chunk of money in a fairly fast time. Consequently few players are eliminated early on and the tournament is dormant for 2 hours. However the slow structures fill the card room so I guess from their point of view they must be doing it right.
posted by Matt at 7:35 AM
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