Match Structure

[ian.ski309]

I"m not complaining either - I realise it"s a done deal. Just expressing an opinion  

[AAroddersAA]

Great decision imo.

The reality is the vast majority of us have to be up for an early start on Monday morning (it"s usually an 8am start for me so I have to be up at around 7). The thought of playing poker until 3am is not that appealing to be honest. Playing until midnight is another matter entirely. I will probably be playing all of these now.

[bear21]

3 mins to go and 325 plus players entered soo far

still and hour late reg but maybe not the highs of the 1st week,,

[Des]

3 mins to go and 325 plus players entered soo far

still and hour late reg but maybe not the highs of the 1st week,,

385 with 45 mins left, not week 1, but another fantastic turnout.

[KarmaDope]

First impressions of new structure are that I don"t like it.

36 mins in and I"ve gone through the blinds 3-4 times, and lost one hand where I raised 3x, c-bet 60% of the pot and had to fold.

I now have 30bb"s at the start of level 4 which is 50/100. Just feels too fast. Either have 15 min blinds or 5k stack would be my choice.

ETA: Start of level 5 anyone who has 3k now has 20bbs which is a believable stack. Now people are already in shove/fold mode before the first break. Not worth it imo.

ETA 2: I"m not just gonna moan, another suggestion I would make would be to go to 4k chips and 10 minute BUT for us to use the structure used in tonight"s Bigger 11, which has more levels all the way through.

[WYoung83]

personally not liking new structure. For same reasons above. Think its too much of a shoot to early. Shame, people gotta be up in 10 hours though, hope they are not too tired.

[Curlarge]

way way way too fast.

200 players out in 90 mins is crazy. Seems the levels are not only shorter but there are less of them??

[lucasj37]

Have to agree new structure is way too fast.

[mylesfdo]

way way way too fast.

200 players out in 90 mins is crazy. Seems the levels are not only shorter but there are less of them??

^^^^......absolute shove fest.....half field gone in less than 2 hours is just ridiculous.......back to 5k starting and 12mins with same lvls as last week seems way fwd oterwise going to lose quite few players it looks like.

[BrummieGreg]

Absolute disaster APAT.

[Jon MW]

People will play the league because of the added value, and people will play the league out of loyalty.

But first and foremost people will play the league because it"s enjoyable poker.

Given the choice between that or having their team mates rail them on the final table - I don"t think many people would be too fussed about the rail; however much of a team game it is.

[dwh103]

Don"t worry guys - APAT will listen like last time! I"m sure it will be tweaked again.

Week 1 was a beautiful structure, but the last 70 or so players took hours to get rid of.

The structure does not need to be uniform - tonight"s structure would be great if there were more levels early on before everyone got down to 20 BBs (which took an hour tonight). I would insert more levels early, give everyone who doesn"t double up an extra 30-60 minutes play. Allow stacks to diverge which should assist with the eliminating of players.

[Swinebag]

I assume all those complaining are out.

I"ll blame myself or the dealer for my exit.

The structure was spot on for a $11 team game

[dwh103]

I assume all those complaining are out.

I"ll blame myself or the dealer for my exit.

The structure was spot on for a $11 team game

Well I wasn"t when I posted (am now).

But disagree, I think the structure does need a tweak - how can APAT attract casual players if after an hour it"s shove, shove, shove?

I and most other regulars will play regardless, but plenty of people don"t enjoy shove/fold poker and will be turned off if the perception is that the tournament is a crapshoot too soon.

[Jon MW]

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The structure was spot on for a $11 team game

As I alluded to last week - if you think the buy in should affect the structure - you"d never get a 2 day deepstack live tournament for £75.

People will play because of the reasons I"ve said - and also in light of your comment, possibly also because they think it"s only a tenner so it doesn"t matter - but I don"t think it really reflects well on APAT if it stays like this.