The Players Choice Freezeout..... New Tournament Idea

S.Emporium

Tuesday 8th September

The Player’s Choice Freezeout

New tournament idea

A freezeout with a difference….. You can choose your own buy-in.
The amount you buy in for determines your starting stack.
There are 4 choices;
€25 = 2,500 chips €50 = 5,000 chips
€75 = 7,500 chips €100 = 10,000 chips

So.….Do you wanna get in cheap and nurse a short stack?
Or do you wanna splash out and lead from the front?
The choice is yours!

Doors open at 7.45 pm for 8.30pm start.
There will be no Early Bird chips for this tournament.
The registration fee will be €5 per player.

Four of a kind

nice alternative idea this sounds!

tylerdurden94

Interesting and a little strange

hatedajacks

Nice to see something different but i really dont like it. Obviously and understandably there is no guarentee. The problem i would have is why would i pay 100 in when i could be up against a field of lets say 11 the other 10 have all paid 25 in. Then i am paying 100 in with a chance of winning a 1st prize of probably 250 with 2nd getting 100. Bad odds imo. Hope it works and i could be wrong but that was my 1st impression when i heard about it last week.

bigbadpat

Like the idea but would rather see more of an incentive to buy chips

Rather than the four choices:

€25 = 2,500 chips, €50 = 5,000 chips
€75 = 7,500 chips, €100 = 10,000 chips

How about

€25 = 2,500 chips, €50 = 5,500 chips
€75 = 9,000 chips, €100 = 13,000 chips

Flushdraw

I reckon this would work better if it wasn't so expensive to get the max chips. I'd probably only take the 5k option and be happy enough because the risk v reward would never warrant the full buyin.

I like the fact Alex is trying something different and hope it works out. I think it work better if it was something like..

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 5000
€55 - 7500
€70 - 10000

or

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 5000
€55 -8000
€70 - 11000

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Really good idea lads

Something different and hopefully it catches on

NuckChorris1

Good idea. Not around to play on Tue 8th but think Tony's idea of lower amounts and increasing chip percentages is pretty good.

tylerdurden94

What tony said

Lao Lao

hatedajacks wrote: »

Nice to see something different but i really dont like it. Obviously and understandably there is no guarentee. The problem i would have is why would i pay 100 in when i could be up against a field of lets say 11 the other 10 have all paid 25 in. Then i am paying 100 in with a chance of winning a 1st prize of probably 250 with 2nd getting 100. Bad odds imo. Hope it works and i could be wrong but that was my 1st impression when i heard about it last week.

This! I think that unless you knew everyone else was buying in for €100, it would be terrible to buy in for €100 yourself

Flushdraw wrote: »

I reckon this would work better if it wasn't so expensive to get the max chips. I'd probably only take the 5k option and be happy enough because the risk v reward would never warrant the full buyin.

I like the fact Alex is trying something different and hope it works out. I think it work better if it was something like..

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 5000
€55 - 7500
€70 - 10000

or

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 5000
€55 -8000
€70 - 11000

And this! Defo looks better and I think it would appeal to more people.

WP to Alex and co for trying something different though, good to see!

bigbadpat

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

What tony said

His suggestion is far better than mine

tylerdurden94

bigbadpat wrote: »

His suggestion is far better than mine

Yes

Flushdraw

bigbadpat wrote: »

His suggestion is far better than mine

It was of a similar idea Pat!

Paying €100 for 13k chips is far too much (money and chips). If the majority of the field has bought 3-5.5k chips and spent €25-€50, then your extra 7k chips is worth way less than the €50 you paid for them.

If its a slightly smaller buyin, it would cater for all different styles. There's a lot that would pay the €55, and then sure you might aswel pay the €70 and get the full qouta and have a decent deep structured tournie on a Tuesday night.

I'm not sure on scrapping the idea of the early bird for this tournie though. It would be a huge advantage to turn up 10 mins late for this game, have a look around what most bought in for, and then buyin for a similar amount.

Maybe rather than giving an early bird chip, each player that buys in after the tournament has kicked off, receives a "late bird" deduction of 250 chips per buyin (excluding the initial 2500). e.g i turn up at 9.15, my options are now.

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 4750
€55 - 7000
€70 - 9250

or

buyin €25 - 2500
€40 - 4750
€55 -7500
€70 - 10250

S.Emporium

Thanks for the positive feedback lads, some good ideas there.
If it proves popular enough to run again, we can definitely look at tweaking the structure a bit, as Pat and Tony have suggested.
I really think this tournament has great potential, so hopefully we can get a good turnout on tuesday for anyone who likes the idea.

S.Emporium

The Structure

25 – 50 – 20 min clock
50 – 100
75 – 150
100 – 200

15 minute break

150 – 300
200 – 400
300 – 600
400 – 800
500 – 1000
600 – 1200
800 – 1600

10 minute break

1000 – 2000 – 25 min clock
1500 – 3000
2000 – 4000
3000 – 6000


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copperfacegaz

think ill head into this tonite for something different ,,anyone else ??

Goldcupfav

Would go in to this if i was sure it would get numbers ! Otherwise its gona have to be the fitz dc tonight.