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[leofric]

Saw this advertised on Sky Poker (not a site I play on but I do occasionally watch the shows)

Basically the tournament runs from Monday to Saturday.
If you buy-in on Monday you do so for £1 and the top 50% go through to Tuesday
On Tuesday you can buy-in direct for £2 (assuming you didnt already play Monday) - top 50% on to Weds etc.

So the idea is there is a £64 buy-in on Saturday which generally seems to be a 20-30 runner tourney with top 3 places paying £1000, £600, £400 (I'm guessing a guaranteed prize pool here)

If you wanted to buy-in on Monday you'd need to know you're free every evening after that or else its a waste of time. I'm also assuming that if you get knocked out one night you cant just rebuy the following night (could be wrong on that one but it makes sense)

So buy-in early or late?

[blah730235]

Well from everything I've heard top heavy tourneys are better for winning players. A majority of these are giant double or nothings...

Also a buyin ranging from $1 to $64 sounds terrible for any one trying to adhere to bankroll management. If you are rolled for $60 tournies why waste your time playing a $1 tourney...and on the flip side if you are only rolled for a $1 tourney why play a tourney that will keep forcing you to put your winnings into a increased buying amount. Surely it would be better to just play $60 or $1 tournies exclusivel

[Zenjo]

Buy in for £1 on Monday. Win a DON satellite. Be forced to play at the same time the following night.

Repeat this 6 times.

Lose on the final day.

Get nothing.

What an awesome idea. Why didn't someone think of this years ago?

[leofric]

My original thought was that since there seems to be an overlay it would make more sense to buy in on the final day.

But then I started thinking that a good player should be able to easily DON so maybe Friday for £32 sounds even better - but then you can follow that logic all the way down obviously!

Personally I think I'd just buy-in at the end - after all there should be a good deal of scared money from the players who've got this far on £1-2

Doesnt this end up working like a big tournament players can satellite into? Which should favour the players with the bigger bankroll/ greater skill?

[scottishben]

I think any sort of steps type tournament will favour

a) the player best able to adapt to tournaments with a very different feel - the 1$ will be very different from the 32$ etc. Also in all the 50% tourneys this favours caution and risk adverse play, then the final day if you are up against cautious low stakes players will need a different approach
b) people who play poker all the time - I play one or two sessions (shortish) a week
c) bunny bashers - players who are good at exploiting weak players.