Hi Everybody,
Starting tonight onwards we shall be amending the starting stacks and late registration periods of our
£10,000 Bounty Hunter 8pm Main Events that run on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday in addition to the daily
9.00pm £2,500/£3,000 Bounty Hunters and
10.30pm Speed Bounty Hunters.
£10,000 8pm Bounty Hunter Main Events - Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Starting stack has been boosted from 2,000 to 5,000 chips with late registration now continuing for 2 more level now until the end of level 8.
£2,500/£3,000 Daily Bounty Hunters at 9.00pm
Starting stack has been raised to 5,000 chips with late registration now until the end of level 8.
£1,500 Daily Speed Bounty Hunter at 10.30pm
Starting stack has been increased from 4,000 chips to 5,000 chips.
These changes can be found in the lobby now.
Sky Peter.
Comments
I could ask this question for all the tournaments with the changes but for now. What time did the main finish for Monday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday last week and how to you envisage this changing with the changes to the starting stacks? Whilst more chips proves more popular with recreational players, being up till the early hours will put lots of recreational players off.
Matt
i think that even a 40% or so increase in starting stack will not extend the game by very much really. those games will last less than 10% longer.
however, if they added levels i would be quite concerned. i would favour keeping the number the same or even have fewer levels.
As I say, I think they're ok as they are and this change with make little to no difference but if one change is made to blind levels it was to be more/smaller incremetal blind increases rather than less.
no offence, but my point was not to reduce the number of levels. i favour keeping the number of levels the same as opposed to increasing the number which was favoured by dohhhhhhh.
my point was that the increase starting stacks makes little difference to tournament length.
matt's issue was forewarning about increasing the length of a game and playing into the early hours.
i am happy with everything paul.
Will post more thoughts on this after I have a good luck at the structure changes but initially:
This calls for Zandig
First up, the 9pm. In my opinion easily the best structured MTT on the site previously.
You've dropped two early levels (the 10/20 and the 25/50) which I can get behind. Starting stack has been increased to 5k, not really sure that change was needed at all, in fact probably would have been better off left alone but no real major issue there.
There's only been one level added in later. At level 29. Which would happen roughly six hours into the MTT. Which is 3am. For a MTT which usually finishes between 1am and 2am. I'm not sure that was needed, even with the additional chips this MTT won't see 3am very often at all. I would much rather more levels be slid in from around level 10 onwards, have more play at the sharp end.
Late reg is now available until around 10:40pm (ending just before 150/300 rather than 40/80 before which was open until roughly 10.05). Feels overly long to me. The real problem I see is without ante pressure, the average stack is going to be bunched around 7k or so when late reg closes in, that's around 23bb. And the structure doesn't slow down to incorporate 'play' at this time. Honestly, it feels like it's been set up by a Hyper reg who intends to buy in at the last minute. I may well be off with my numbers, in fact I hope I am and the MTT plays out totally differently, we'll see tonight and I am completely open minded to trying the structure. I just don't think it needed tinkering with and I have no idea why late reg is so long.
As someone who's found the main event bounty hunters less and less enjoyable, I read the boost of a starting stack as a positive and something that appealed to me enough to want to give the new format a go.
With the larger starting stack I'd be surprised if the finishing times went on much longer than they do now, maybe half an hour extra?
Anyway with late registration being extended, could there be a justification, for moving the tournament start times forwards?
I don't think there was any complaints about late registration finishing too early, so how about moving the start time forwards and with the late reg at extra levels, the late reg option, time wise, will be pretty much where it has been for the last 12+ months, then everyone might be happy?