Season 6 Discussion

[MintTrav]

[Curlarge]

How shallow would you make starting stacks in those earlier rounds, if best of 3?

With 10 minute blind levels, you could start with 30x - so 1500. After 20 minutes, using a steep structure, blinds would be 25/50, 50/100, 100/200 = 7.5x Avg stack. Each round is unlikely to go much beyond 20 minutes, meaning if a match lasts all three rounds, it should be done in an hour.

Deep and steep with best of three has got to be better than having something slightly deeper with one game only (imo). Unless you start 100x or more with a slower clock, it doesn"t really matter whether you are 10x or 50x - it"s all going in preflop so often.  At least if it"s best of three, it"s not a case that the match is simply decided on the first flip.

You mean shallow and steep?

This just makes it best of 3 coinflips IMO. I already decided if the structure of this tourney doesn"t change I won"t be playing it again and this doesn"t entice either. Against a random opponent there"s just no wriggle room, best of 3 or not. Some play has to be encouraged.

Tweaking the above to 15 min and 2K start, best of 3 would improve it though I"d rather see 3K.

Remember this is supposed to be a championship event. If the staff aren"t available to put on a championship event then I"d rather see it NOT on the schedule.

You could I suppose do a round or two of pre-qual online, and then progress to live rounds of say last 16 and beyond. This might help drive a better live structure whilst allowing a decent structure in the earlier round(s) albeit not F2F.

Apart from being exactly what I said, this bears no resemblance to my thoughts whatsoever.  

On this basis I really like thought 2.

[AJDUK]

Just a thought on the HU Championship.

Would either of the following work.

1. Have the preliminary rounds (2 possibly), online, a month or so prior to the Worlds. This way the live event can have longer blinds and more chips or be best of 3 or even both. For people taking a day off just for this event it should represent as much value as we can give it.

2. The initial round be a round robin format of 4 players in a group with each player playing the other 3 in a league, with the winner progressing to the last 16 say. This way the "cooler" hand is mitigated to a fair degree and everyone gets 3 games and meets new people.

Just a thought. Happy New Year.

I suggested (1) earlier in this thread. Like the sound of (2) too. Change is needed.

Sorry. I agree with Andy  

Rich, try and be more original

Oops. Didn"t mean to say anything other than I agree with Rich. Plus, he"s bigger than me  

Rob, you are such a swinebag  

Looking forward to the announcments about Season 6; would love to be able to be much more involved this year. It"s all about those dates......

[AAroddersAA]

It is likely that the opening weekend of season 6 will be either Feb 25th & 26th or Mar 31st & Apr 1st.  Discussions are  ongoing so don"t shoot us if things change please.  But I"m using the Feb dates for my planning purposes atm.

Sorry Des but are you also able to tell us if we should look at booking long weekends off work? Are we likely to be heading off to Scotland or Ireland or will it be a pretty central UK event?

Understand you may not have this info yet but thought there is no harm in asking.

[TightEnd]

It is likely that the opening weekend of season 6 will be either Feb 25th & 26th or Mar 31st & Apr 1st.  Discussions are  ongoing so don"t shoot us if things change please.  But I"m using the Feb dates for my planning purposes atm.

Sorry Des but are you also able to tell us if we should look at booking long weekends off work? Are we likely to be heading off to Scotland or Ireland or will it be a pretty central UK event?

Understand you may not have this info yet but thought there is no harm in asking.

UK Event. Please understand that this is all subject to change, but thats the best indication at this stage

[Curlarge]

I know that there is a perfectly good reason and that I am a complete twat for asking......BUT


Why don"t we just make Brighton the first leg of Season 6 as it"s 2012 and all that?

That way each season will be for a whole year. Simplez.

[Des]

I know that there is a perfectly good reason and that I am a complete twat for asking......BUT


Why don"t we just make Brighton the first leg of Season 6 as it"s 2012 and all that?

That way each season will be for a whole year. Simplez.

It"s probably got something to do with rankings and sponsors

[Paulie_D]

It is likely that the opening weekend of season 6 will be either Feb 25th & 26th or Mar 31st & Apr 1st.  Discussions are  ongoing so don"t shoot us if things change please.  But I"m using the Feb dates for my planning purposes atm.

Sorry Des but are you also able to tell us if we should look at booking long weekends off work? Are we likely to be heading off to Scotland or Ireland or will it be a pretty central UK event?

Understand you may not have this info yet but thought there is no harm in asking.

UK Event. Please understand that this is all subject to change, but thats the best indication at this stage

So not ruling out Scotland then?  

[TightEnd]

England

[SirPercival]

England

North or South?  

[TightEnd]

England

North or South?  

Depends on a number of factors, for each individual, such that it is a very difficult question to answer

[Paulie_D]

[Moocher]

So the first event is ""likely"" to be 25/26 Feb?

[AceOnTheRiver]

So the first event is ""likely"" to be 25/26 Feb?

It is likely that the opening weekend of season 6 will be either Feb 25th & 26th or Mar 31st & Apr 1st. 

[Santino67]

So the first event is ""likely"" to be 25/26 Feb?

It is likely that the opening weekend of season 6 will be either Feb 25th & 26th or Mar 31st & Apr 1st. 

England

Miss Scarlet, In the conservatory with the lead piping?