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TKO
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Silver Level
Held my first "big" (32 people) tournament Saturday. Other than losing 25 chips by the end of the night, it went off without a hitch. I want to thank the people that gave great advice on how to hold the tourny, etc. I wasn't going to play and just run the tournament but I made 32 so I could have four full tables.
Once I was knocked out, (short stacked with a pair of 3's, only to watch someone call w/ AQ off and flop the straight) it was interesting to hear the comments from people about play and picked up a couple of tells from players that I can use next time.
The only complaint that bothered me was this: Part of the buy in went for the free (keg) beer and the "house". My response to this was the fact that any tournament you will have fees (rake) that goto the house. The "house" is a bar and I tried to explain to him that the bar would not make as much money with free beer as they would if people would actually buy from the bar so, I wanted to take car of the "house" for letting me have the tourny there. Anyway, it just got to the point that I said that if he didn't like it, not to play anymore in the future.
Anyway, the response was so good that I am planning on doing this once a month with the same format. I am going to set the field at either 40 or 48 with reservations only. I am going to try to also to take a percentage out of the fees so that I can have a Champion's Tournament at the end of next year with the 12 winners and 4 wild cards. Has anyone done something like this? Could anyone give me advice on running the Champion's tourny as winner take all or pay out the top 3. Thanks.
TKO
Once I was knocked out, (short stacked with a pair of 3's, only to watch someone call w/ AQ off and flop the straight) it was interesting to hear the comments from people about play and picked up a couple of tells from players that I can use next time.
The only complaint that bothered me was this: Part of the buy in went for the free (keg) beer and the "house". My response to this was the fact that any tournament you will have fees (rake) that goto the house. The "house" is a bar and I tried to explain to him that the bar would not make as much money with free beer as they would if people would actually buy from the bar so, I wanted to take car of the "house" for letting me have the tourny there. Anyway, it just got to the point that I said that if he didn't like it, not to play anymore in the future.
Anyway, the response was so good that I am planning on doing this once a month with the same format. I am going to set the field at either 40 or 48 with reservations only. I am going to try to also to take a percentage out of the fees so that I can have a Champion's Tournament at the end of next year with the 12 winners and 4 wild cards. Has anyone done something like this? Could anyone give me advice on running the Champion's tourny as winner take all or pay out the top 3. Thanks.
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