hey so i'm playing in this tourney through my school on friday, mostly just for fun. it's free to play and the prizes are like tvs and playstations and ipods and stuff, so hey, why not? but the structure's kind of funny so i was wondering how this should change my strategy...i'm figuring just play each stage sort of like a sng? here's what the email i got says...some parts of it are sorta vague but it's all i've got.

"For the first round each player will begin with the same amount of chips. The blinds (mandatory bets) will be increased at regular time intervals. Play will continue until there is one player with all of the chips at each table. The top two players at each table will advance to the middle round, but the winner of each table will begin the next round with a slightly higher chip count. This is the reward for winning your table.

The second round will follow the same blind increases as the first round. The top two players from each table will move to the final round and once again the winner of each table will have a slight chip lead going into the final table.

Each player from the final round will receive a prize, with the value of prize corresponding to placing."

what do you guys think?

thanks marm...

yeah i don't think i get to know that until i get there.

Exactly, The structure of this should lend itself to better players.

If you are playing against a fair amount of novice players I would play fairly tight in the begining against draw situations to avoid unskilled players hitting their hands. I have found it can be hard to get these type of people to fold no matter how much you bet. As the play progresses, however, and these players become eliminated you will want to become more aggresive.

Just my two cents

Good Luck

sounds like good advice...thanks!

yeah i don't have any of that info yet. i guess i'll see when i get there. but yeah i'll let you know how it goes...man it's gonna be embarrassing when i get knocked out in the first round.

uh yeah so i just finished that tourney. the structure was awful. i think there were somewhere between one and two hundred entrants on tables of eight. we each started out with 25 chips and blinds started at 1/2 and rose every ten minutes. so yeah, 12.5 bb. lovely.

there were like two actually good players on my table, a few who were kinda ok, and then this one girl who clearly had no idea what she was doing...called almost every hand and every bet after that. somehow she was chipleader when i left.

so i never saw good cards...i was thinking i should try to be more aggressive and steal, since blinds were so high, but then that calling station girl made me afraid to do that, since i wasn't getting anything, she was getting great cards, and she'd call pretty much no matter what; she'd already made her stack calling all-ins preflop so i couldn't really put a lot of money on bad cards.

best hand i saw was J3o, until i had 9 chips left and blinds were going to 3/6 next hand. i was to the right of the dealer and saw A5o, so, since blinds were gonna kill me in a few turns anyway, when everyone folded to me i pushed. big blind was a good player with a good sized stack; he calls me down with his 36o just cuz it was not many more chips anyhow. flop is 336 and that is the end of me. he was a nice guy though at least.

but yeah, horrible structure.