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Final Table Bubbles - 7 Handed or Not?
A lot of live venues (and I think some other online sites) will always go to a 7handed FT when running 6max comps
Of course it's just variance and you'll be on the 3handed table as often as you are on the 4handed table in the long run (although the long run is gonna be pretty long to get a huge sample of making the final 7 of an MTT).
You can also say it's just another part of a tournament that you need to adapt to and figure out the best way to take advantage of it but there must be a reason why other operators think a 7handed FT is better. It does make for a better end game imo but that's just me.
I may or may not have finished 7th tonight in the £2k BH lol... but this thread aint for selfish reasons, just that event got me thinking...
What would you prefer and why?
Of course it's just variance and you'll be on the 3handed table as often as you are on the 4handed table in the long run (although the long run is gonna be pretty long to get a huge sample of making the final 7 of an MTT).
You can also say it's just another part of a tournament that you need to adapt to and figure out the best way to take advantage of it but there must be a reason why other operators think a 7handed FT is better. It does make for a better end game imo but that's just me.
I may or may not have finished 7th tonight in the £2k BH lol... but this thread aint for selfish reasons, just that event got me thinking...
What would you prefer and why?
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7 handed would be the ideal situation but I just cant see it happening.
ummmmmmmmm NO
I would have no confidence in the software going to 7 max when it should.
I bet the seats are programmed at the start of a tourney and that's it its runs like that throughout.
Would much prefer balancing the amount of play at the start and end of a tournament being looked into.
There must be ways of working it so the tournament takes more or less the same time to complete (taking 30 seconds/1 minute off the blind clock, skipping the 10/20, 15/30 levels?) few different things could be tried out really.
Just feel it would enhance the playing experience more than anything else.
Evens out over time, all part of the variance.
Yes the FT bubble boy will now be the person in 8th, but it'll come after all 8 players having played on 2 x 4handed tables.
Being on a 3handed table where the average stack is say 10xBB (which is fairly normal for alot of MTTs on here) with people who are a lot weaker than you can be great if they're weak in the sense they don't know how wide to shove and call shoves too tight etc, if they're the opposite then at that stack depth 3handed you can pretty much say goodbye to your edge imo.
Again this is all just 'variance' in terms of whether you're on the 3handed or 4handed table, what stack sizes happen to be on that table (sometimes the 3handed table will be the 3 shorties, sometimes the 3 biggies, sometimes the CL and 2 players with <5xBB), and what the players are like (good or bad, and what type of good/bad).
Sometimes it'll work out great for you, sometimes it'll work out pretty bad for you (it should even out in the long term though) but with 7handed it'll always be the same for everyone, everytime with no need for the longterm to be realised.