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Despite negative reports about a too-fast blind structure and terrible dealers — from players who may or may not have been juiced with some residual Day 1-bustout tilt and therefore focusing on isolated incidents inherent to putting on any event that’s bigger than any other you’ve put on before — I couldn’t stand it … I just had to get in on the action. Sounds like too much fun going on at The River, and who better to buy a small piece of than Karridy? I like his chances. After all the last tourney he played with notably bad blind structures and dealers — he won!
He also apparently got the last spot available for Thursday, and if I learned anything from running Lodge tourneys, it’s that late-late entrants seem to have a disproportionately high percentage of Top 3 finishes. Seriously. Not sure why that is, but it’s true. I’ve seen it. You know, math …
ItsOverJonny says:
August 20th, 2008 at 10:32am
Good luck Karridy!
The blind structure isn’t charity-tourney bad – it’s just not as good as it should be for a deep-stacked, multi-day, big buy-in (relatively speaking) tournament.
And actually, the structure starting around Level 13 is pretty good. I predict that Day 2 (on Saturday) will be a MARATHON. But I don’t know where the average stack sits. Does anyone know about what level they are hitting the final 10% each day? I think it was Level 15 on Sunday, which is 5k-10k-1k, which gives the average stack an M of 4.
Karridy says:
August 20th, 2008 at 11:17am
I usually do pretty well when I play a tourney without spousal blessings. Dan thinks it’s part of the secret sauce.
Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday. If I can get this worked out and end up playing, one thing is certain. If I don’t win, there won’t be ANY secret sauce flowing at the Karridy household for quite some time.
DanM says:
August 20th, 2008 at 11:25am
Murmur.
My whole plan revolves around you being there maybe not for the very first hand, but at least by the second!
Lonny Hardcastle says:
August 20th, 2008 at 2:06pm
Steve Justice just busted out of the River Tournament. He said he flopped nut straight only to be beat on the River by a flush.
DanM says:
August 20th, 2008 at 2:19pm
Bummer. I wonder if he played it right? I personally hate flopping straights, even though I love them.
Grunkzzz says:
August 20th, 2008 at 5:14pm
I busted out about 74th
AKs vs KJo K948J all in on the flop.
Donkies.
Anyways I got some pictures if you want them.