Sunday noon tournament

[mattkrol]

I wanted to ask a question to those who may have played the new noon tournament at the Gilpin, because I am looking to go up this Sunday with a bunch of friends and all enter a tourney ... so ...

1) Does anyone know the blind structure for this $60 tourney, with a $60 re-buy?

2) Can you add on right away?

3) Is the tournament worth it?

Thanks for any more info you can give me on the tournament!
Matt

[mattkrol]

So ... my last post was premature. I heard from the Gilpin today that its a $70 freeze out tournament with 7,000 in chips and 15 min blinds.

Has anyone played in this Sunday noon tournament, and did you like it? Were the blinds too fast?

[Mondogarage]

Are you sure this is what they told you? I ask because, during June, that was their Sunday noon tourney ($70 FO/7,000 chips), but when I went up on Sunday, July 1st, it had changed that very day to the 60/60 rebuy (which actually ticked me off to no end, becuase I went specifically to play the $70 FO).

My understanding is they only change their tourney rotation on the 1st of the month, so I would think the 60/60 would go on through the end of the month.

That said, I thought the 60/60 was an okay tournament, for what it is, as long as there's no more than five tables. Once they hit 6 tables, the Gilpin has reduced the level structure from 20 minutes to 15, which makes for more "all in or fold" poker after the 1st break. If you play, definitely take the rebuy up front, as it gets you bonus chips. The first $60 gets you 2k chips, but if you do $120 upfront, you get 6k chips.

[mattkrol]

Thanks for writing back on the tourney, but I received an email from Brian Weaver, who runs the poker room, and this is an excerpt from his reply email (his response to my question is after my question):

1) The noon Sunday tournament is a re-buy ... can you add on right
away? Or
do you rebuy later in the tournament? Do most be people just add-on
right
away when they sign up and pay?
This tournament has changed to a $70 Freeze Out

So that's what he responded with ... he also went on to tell me after that that you start with 7,000 in chips for this tourney at 15 min blinds.

[Mondogarage]

I'm gonna guess the 60/60 didn't go over too well, then. Well, now I'm more chafed that it wasn't 70/7,000 the one Sunday I was there, but that's another story.

As for what the tourney is *now*, it's still a decent structure, though it's hardly deep stack at 15 minute blinds. It's still far more play than you'd get in most Blackhawk tourneys, where you start with 2k or 3k chips, but 15 minute blinds still force the action pretty quick.

I'd still play it, but I'd much rather play a 50/5k with 20 minute blinds than a 70/7k with 15 minute blinds, because the shorter levels will more than eat up any benefit from the deeper starting stacks much quicker than you think.

[Wetdog]

7K starting stack is cool, but what's the blind structure? If it starts at 200-400, that would blow.

[idh78]

I think there levels are somewhat 'normal'

25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000
1000-2000
2000-4000
4000-8000
6000-12,000

that's about as far as I've ever made it...

[Fisher32]

Do you guys think that tourny is a craps shoot? I have never played in it so I'm not sure, it's just what I heard.