Table Balancing

Poker_Wolf

I just wanted to ask if there was any criteria for balancing tables or whether it was completely random? I have no evidence to support this but it seems to me that there is a large percentage of the time where 4 or 5 of the top 6 stacks will be sat at the same table, and short stacks grouped too. Not even when there is only 2 tables to go but sometimes further out than that.

This probably sounds like I'm bitter about something but I am genuinely interested as to whether it is random. It's not something I have thought about much when playing on other sites but it has happened often enough since I've played here for me to notice it. Perhaps it is because we always play 6 max or maybe it's just me being silly. 

Tikay10

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I just wanted to ask if there was any criteria for balancing tables or whether it was completely random? I have no evidence to support this but it seems to me that there is a large percentage of the time where 4 or 5 of the top 6 stacks will be sat at the same table, and short stacks grouped too. Not even when there is only 2 tables to go but sometimes further out than that. This probably sounds like I'm bitter about something but I am genuinely interested as to whether it is random. It's not something I have thought about much when playing on other sites but it has happened often enough since I've played here for me to notice it. Perhaps it is because we always play 6 max or maybe it's just me being silly. 
Posted by Poker_Wolf

 Hi Wolf,

I don't think for a moment you are being "silly", & I've no idea how they balance tables. I'd be reasonably confident it is random though. Put that another way, turn it upside down - why would it NOT be random?

Over the long term, there is no advantage or disadvantage to players or the site to mess around with these things.

Do you single table, or multi-table? 

Nuggy962

Hi wolf

Sometimes, because it is random then this makes random events seem like they are not random. 

For there never to be all the big stacks on one table or very rarely the software would have to split them making it not random, but thus seemingly to us is random. Hope that makes sense.

Goody_Ace

In Bounty Hunters it does not seem random at all.

I am always moved to a table where other players stacks are about equal or greater.

Sometimes I have like 1k left and I am thrown in with the lions with 10k stacks and more.

Of course they all up the anti to make me fold or jump in and hope.

But I look down the list of players still in and there are plenty with smaller stacks than me.

Random it is not, otherwise you would land on a table with massivly varying stacks

alex1229

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In Bounty Hunters it does not seem random at all. I am always moved to a table where other players stacks are about equal or greater. Sometimes I have like 1k left and I am thrown in with the lions with 10k stacks and more. Of course they all up the anti to make me fold or jump in and hope. But I look down the list of players still in and there are plenty with smaller stacks than me. Random it is not, otherwise you would land on a table with massivly varying stacks
Posted by Goody_Ace

lol ok. 

GSmith13

I would definately have to say that it is random. I play thousands of tournaments a year on sky, most of which are bounty hunters, and the big/small stack ratios are always vaired at all point in the tournament, including during the final few tables.

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: Table Balancing:

In Bounty Hunters it does not seem random at all. I am always moved to a table where other players stacks are about equal or greater. Sometimes I have like 1k left and I am thrown in with the lions with 10k stacks and more. Of course they all up the anti to make me fold or jump in and hope. But I look down the list of players still in and there are plenty with smaller stacks than me. Random it is not, otherwise you would land on a table with massivly varying stacks
Posted by Goody_Ace

I think you need to look up the definition of 'random' in the dictionary.

FeelGroggy

The table balancing is definitely completely random, there is no reason why it wouldn't be.
In theory we're more likely to get moved to stacked tables than shallow ones as usually we get moved to tables where players have recently busted so the players remaining at the table have more chips.