2011 Aussie Millions Championship Structures

[Crown Admin]

Hi Guys,

The official 2011 Aussie Millions structures are now up on the websites.

http://crownpoker.com.au/Assets/Cont...Structures.pdf

The satellites in the crown poker room have been going gangbusters at the moment with nearly 50 seats won in the last few weeks. The full schedule of satellites can be found here:

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Hope to see you all here over the coming month.

Cheers

Christian Vaughan
Tournament Director
Crown Limited
E-Mail christianv@crownmelbourne.com.au

[Monkey]

Woohoo we finally get to see some structures for tournaments

Now we get to pick it apart

1k Events:
I like the no 25/50 level on the 1k events when you've doubled the starting stacks. I'd much prefere twice as many chips in play than an extra 40minutes of 25/50 so thumbs up there

The antes stay quite small in the early stages of the tournament, not quite sure why this is but some levels the antes are 1/6th of the SB. Better than no antes though...

HOWEVER, you have increased the antes in the 6max, often the antes are 1/3 of the small blind which is interesting. I like that in 6max

40min levels is good as long as the dealers can pump out some hands at a decent pace


MAIN EVENT:
It seems you got a bit lazy with the antes in this event. For example, level 15 is 2500/5000/500 so 1/5 of the SB ante which is ok, shouldnt go lower than that imo

level 16 is 3000/6000/1000, so the ante doubles and becomes 1/3 of the small blind. This is a huge jump and is obv designedto phase out the $100 chips but surely for the integrity of the tournament that costs 10.6k, you can hold onto them for say a 700 ante. If you are that desperate to see the end of the 100 chip I think it would be better to have an exception and keep the ante at 500, then jump it to 1k at 4000/8000...just my opinion

There are quite a few times when the ante jumps up where I would think it would stay the same for that level, but its nothing extreme

So my breaks on day 1, why? not sure if this is std though but is 3 hours too long without a break?

Not sure about the $550 events but i guess its something for busted players to tilt their money away at. Not sure whether I'd load up on $550 on these though when similiar buyins get much better structures in other events. Still +1 for antes

Turbo looks fun, good structure for something branded as turbo


Something that interest me is the table breakdowns in the ME. I love it plays 8 handed as soon as possible. Not quit sure why they break to 6 handed when down to 36 players, then goes to a 9 handed final table I assume? Or does the FT stay 6 handed

Just seems confusing to me...

Please tell me in these tournaments you dont inforce the '2 player gap is fine' rule when we are short handed. When you have 3 tables left, 2 of 9 and 1 of 7, just move someone to the table of 7 please


Thanks for dropping those in though, I had given up on searching crown.com.au for structures

[bazooka87]

Aah much better, but still think ending flight 1 of the first event at 4am is ridiculous. Rest is a definite improvement though

[TurnRiva]

8 game going in to 1hr levels at some point would be nice

[pokerhontas]

any special rates for accomodation during the series?

[steve_farha]

Good luck trying to snap some up now. With AM, and the Aus Open on, most would be snapped up

[SwoopAE]

link is broken now, any chance of a reup?