My local casino has begun weekly tournaments with an unusual format. There are 10 sessions during the day, starting on the hour. The buy-in for each session is $55. At the end of the day, the person with the highest total from all 10 sessions is the winner of $750. Second is $325, third is $150, and 4th-7th pays $75. My question is, does anyone see any strategy that might be effective here? It seems to me since you are not really playing against the other people at your table, but against unknowns from other times, the luck factor is intensified. Betting big and getting a lucky run would seem like the only way to win.
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That is very similar to the format of a tournament I played on a cruise ship recently. And you are right, the luck factor is highly intensified.
That format was for six players per session, playing 7 rounds per session. You could buy back in as many times as you wanted; and they'd play for about an hour and a half each afternoon. Buy-ins were $15 for non players' club members, and $10 with the card. It also included a $5 match-play for the regular casino. I think I ended up playing in about ten sessions.
The winner of each table went onto the leader board if, and only if his total was in the top 6 for the whole tournament. Then, on the final day of the cruise, the top six totals went at it in one seven-round session.
It pretty much negated the at-the-table strategy for the session you were in; because after a day or so, the leader board was high enough that everybody just about had to bet big on every hand and hope for the best.
I won my table twice. Once with a total too small to get onto the leader board, and another time only to be knocked off the leader board in the next session. A couple of other times, shooting for the leader board may have cost me a chance to win my table.
There was one table where the dealer got three naturals in a row to start the game; and everybody wiped out, because they were all betting big. And there was another game where the second-place finisher on the table would have made the leader board had they setup the rules that way.
I had fun; and it served the purpose. However, I'd have prefered some sort of tiered progression deal, where winning your table gets you a seat in the next round, and so on.
That format was for six players per session, playing 7 rounds per session. You could buy back in as many times as you wanted; and they'd play for about an hour and a half each afternoon. Buy-ins were $15 for non players' club members, and $10 with the card. It also included a $5 match-play for the regular casino. I think I ended up playing in about ten sessions.
The winner of each table went onto the leader board if, and only if his total was in the top 6 for the whole tournament. Then, on the final day of the cruise, the top six totals went at it in one seven-round session.
It pretty much negated the at-the-table strategy for the session you were in; because after a day or so, the leader board was high enough that everybody just about had to bet big on every hand and hope for the best.
I won my table twice. Once with a total too small to get onto the leader board, and another time only to be knocked off the leader board in the next session. A couple of other times, shooting for the leader board may have cost me a chance to win my table.
There was one table where the dealer got three naturals in a row to start the game; and everybody wiped out, because they were all betting big. And there was another game where the second-place finisher on the table would have made the leader board had they setup the rules that way.
I had fun; and it served the purpose. However, I'd have prefered some sort of tiered progression deal, where winning your table gets you a seat in the next round, and so on.