I know how you did it Mikey. It wasn't right. If your table went for 6 blind levels, that would make my table play about 3 extra games. That's good for my chip count if I'm winning but not if I'm losing.
Would it be fair if 1 table has 5 people at it and they all are winning 1 out of every 5 games so they are staying pretty even. Meanwhile on the other table someone is hot and eliminates the whole table. Is that fair to u? Sure isnt fair to me.
That is the nature of the beast though, or luck of the draw.
The more I think about it, the Total chip count on the table is not as important. The important thing is that for every game you win, you are getting paid the same as the other tables. So, if there are three tables with 6, 6, and 6 players, each win is worth 5 chips. Let's say someone gets hot, or two players are cold, and two players are eliminated from one table. Now there are 6, 6 and 4 players. So now, if someone wins a game on table 3, it is only worth 3 chips and if someone wins on the other two tables it is worth 5 chips. Not fair at all. The total chips at the table has nothing to do with how many chips you win per game, only the antes influence that.
Maybe I am missing something here, and that is quite possible since I have never played in a ring game tournament...
I've only played in a few poker tournaments, but isn't this the same scenario as a multi table tournament? As players are eliminated the tables are balanced, and isn't that done randomly?
Mikey, will you let "C" players in? Just in case I'm back in there soon.In a poker tourney you only get moved after your table is closed. Tables are closed by tournament officials. You then automatically go to the first available open seat at a non closed table. Only random seat in a poker tourney is your first seat. Thats the way they do it in person.
Obviously some tables are going to be a bit tougher than other tables in a ring game. Maintaining a balance is important to the overall enjoyment of the tourney. For some odd reason people don't wanna keep the A players separate from the rest of the group. I'm all about that.
OK I gotta say if you didn't play you shouldnt tell me what I gotta do. Thats all. I'm up for suggestions and improvements but not in the mood to be dictated to.
OK I gotta say if you didn't play you shouldnt tell me what I gotta do. Thats all. I'm up for suggestions and improvements but not in the mood to be dictated to.
I know I didn't play last week Frost, but here is my 2 cents anyway. I'm sure there are flaws with this idea too, but why not eliminate the movement of players altogether? Break up the initial (random) table assignments into small enough groups they are manageable and have each table play down to 1 person who will qualify for the final table. This way everyone at the "final table" should start with roughly the same number of chips. The one flaw I see with this is there would be more luck-of-the-draw with the initial random table assignment. But, you bust that table and make it to the final table and you should be fairly evenly stacked with everyone else there. :wink:
Why don't you just have the security boys come over and shark the leading player on each table? That would even things out, wouldn't it?
Jeff Livingston
I wasn't refering to the stoppage of play when you were waiting for a player from my table. My post was about the hourly breaks where the middle table always stopped first. It made for about 20 minutes of extra play for my table in total. This was good for my only because I was winning. There should be a timer that goes off so it is random which table plays a little longer each break.