Sydney Champs Opening Event Update

[Hevydevy]

Olympian Goes for Gold - Big Game Poker

[bazooka87]

Originally Posted by article

The opening event of the Sydney Championships attracted 119 players on Day 1a with just 27 progressing through to Friday’s Day 2.

Originally Posted by From terms and conditions

Play will extend to 14 levels on Day 1 or when the number of player’s remaining reaches 40, whichever happens first.

lolwat. Also I played in this, fuck live poker etc. I'm just gonna stick to WCOOP, but will probably play the 6 max.

[BurgerTrev]

I also thought this was playing to level 14 or 40 players whichever came first as per the T's & C's. I asked Jason (TD) what the situation was when there were questions raised during level 7 and he rightly pointed out he can alter this as per another clause in the T's & C's.

We would have stopped during level 9 instead of 11 if we stuck to the 40 number. I'm unsure of the benefit of the change given 3 x flight 1's will now result in maybe 90 players on day 2 vs. the original 120.

[grunter]

They probably reached 40 players too early.

Given that Flight 3 should attract 150+ players, they couldn't really justify stopping at level 9 or whatever it was yesterday as there would be too many players going onto Day 2 from the larger Thursday flight, meaning the very real possibility of playing a 14 or 16 hour day to get to the final 9.

[BurgerTrev]

Yeah Grant, it's a judgement call on numbers. That's why they pay Jason the big bucks. It's a VG tournament structure to kick off the Syd champs. I''l be there day 2 so maybe we can joust.

[LebaneseOwnU]

What time did play finish up last night?

[BurgerTrev]

Originally Posted by LebaneseOwnU

What time did play finish up last night?

about 9pm

[grunter]

Originally Posted by LebaneseOwnU

What time did play finish up last night?

bout tree fiddy

[grunter]

Originally Posted by BurgerTrev

Yeah Grant, it's a judgement call on numbers. That's why they pay Jason the big bucks. It's a VG tournament structure to kick off the Syd champs. I''l be there day 2 so maybe we can joust.

sif I'll make Day 2

[Hevydevy]

Originally Posted by grunter

They probably reached 40 players too early.

Given that Flight 3 should attract 150+ players, they couldn't really justify stopping at level 9 or whatever it was yesterday as there would be too many players going onto Day 2 from the larger Thursday flight, meaning the very real possibility of playing a 14 or 16 hour day to get to the final 9.

Pretty much exactly what Jason said, yes.