Day 2 Qualifiers -- Like or Dislike?

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Hi everyone,

I have been playing a lot of the Sundays Squeezes (cashed all of the ones I have played but haven't gotten super deep yet. -- fingers crossed that today is the day) and I was thinking that while this not a "new" format...there have been lots of satellite type things where you win your way up into bigger tourneys...but this is kind of different. You play day one to a certain level and there are a bunch of other flights. So, then on Day 2, instead of starting a new tournament, you continue with the stack that you accumulated on Day 1 and the blinds continue to progress. I find myself really liking this format. I have entered Day 2 with varying stack sizes from 22 BBs to almost 100. In my qualifying heat for today I finished first in the qualifier but am ranked 39th going into the tournament. I don't know exactly why, but I just feel like I have a lot vested when I go into this type of tournament and not that I am coming into something new. Anyone else out there agree, or do you hate having to qualify and then wait days to play?
 
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Personally, I've avoided these types of van satellites more or less until now, but I've thought of giving it a try a couple of times. In general, however, I don't play as often or hardly any satellites for other tournaments. Usually when I played a satellite, the goal tournament had already started or would start soon. I wish you good luck at the tables
 
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I think, its a fine concept, because it makes it more manageable to play a big MTT. In the one, you mention, day 1 last 3 hours + breaks, and day 2 is then correspondingly shorter than a normal MTT with the same structure and field size. I actually played the Sunday Squeeze yesterday, because I kind of accidentally satellited into day 1 without knowing, what it was. I am not going to do it again, because day 2 begin 5 minutes past midnight in my time zone, which is way to late. But it went well, since I turned 1,65$, or whatever the SnG satellite cost me, into 60$. For people living in America, or maybe in Asia without having to go to work monday morning, its a great tournament.
 
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2 day tourneys it's a hard long way to some good or even way better amount) nice chance, why not?)
 
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Hi everyone,

I have been playing a lot of the Sundays Squeezes (cashed all of the ones I have played but haven't gotten super deep yet. -- fingers crossed that today is the day) and I was thinking that while this not a "new" format...there have been lots of satellite type things where you win your way up into bigger tourneys...but this is kind of different. You play day one to a certain level and there are a bunch of other flights. So, then on Day 2, instead of starting a new tournament, you continue with the stack that you accumulated on Day 1 and the blinds continue to progress. I find myself really liking this format. I have entered Day 2 with varying stack sizes from 22 BBs to almost 100. In my qualifying heat for today I finished first in the qualifier but am ranked 39th going into the tournament. I don't know exactly why, but I just feel like I have a lot vested when I go into this type of tournament and not that I am coming into something new. Anyone else out there agree, or do you hate having to qualify and then wait days to play?
I like them because they give the chance of a big payout for a small initial outlay although I am disappointed that the Sunday Squeeze has gone from $100,000 GTD to 50k.
 
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The most frustrating thing about two-day tournaments is when you get to the second day and your stack is less than one blind🙂
 
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