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SPT Structure and Payouts
In response to some questions on this board:
For Manchester, assuming a full 150 players:
For Manchester, assuming a full 150 players:
15 paid. (Approximate percentages shown)
1 27.5% £4,000
2 17% £2,650
3 12% £1,800
4 9% £1,350
5 7% £1,050
6 6% £900
7 5% £750
8 4% £600
9 3% £450
10-15 1.75% each £250
Structure
30 min levels, 5000 starting
150 players, 750,000 in play
2.00pm 25-50
2.30pm 50-100
3.00pm 100-200
3.30pm 200-400
3.30pm 200-400
4.00pm 15 minute break
4.15pm 300-600
4.45pm 400-800
5.15pm 600-1200
5.45pm 800-1600
6.15pm 45 minute buffet break
7.00pm 1000-2000
7.30pm 1500-3000
8.00pm 2000-4000
8.30pm 3000-6000
9.00pm 15 minute break
9.15pm 4000-8000
9.45pm 5000-10000
10.15pm 6000-12000
10.45pm 8000-16000
11pm 15 minute break (or coincide break for start of final)
11.15pm 10000-20000
11.45pm 15000-30000
12.15am 20000-40000
12.45am 30000-60000
Comments
Bit worried about the steep jumps in blinds though :S... no 75/150 level or 150/300 etc etc but that looks to be counterd slightly by the removal of ante's?
Is that correct?
Did last year's SUKPT (as was) have ante's in?
Hey Ho im not going to argue with you about running trnys, you have probably run more than I have had hot dinners. Just dont remember the jumps as big last yr but did have ante's was wondering if it was a conscious change or not.
Thanks for the feedback, I need to try and find last year's strucutre from somewhere, you've piqued my interest.
I think it's the same or similar, to last year.
I confess I may be the culprit if it's wrong. I designed the Structure for the SPUKT last year, it worked well, so we decided to use it again this year.
So SPT Rich asked me to find it - but I was unable to. Last year, I Blogged it, e-Mailed it, sent it to all the Cardrooms, but now I can't trace it anywhere.
SPT Rich kept chasing me for it - quite correctly - but I eventullly fessed up & told him I could not find it. So he designed it, sent it to me, I said it looked about right, & he went with it.
So, blame me if it's wrong. We would review it after Leg One if it was too fast, or slow, of course, but the Sky Poker Players seem quite comfy most structures.
P.S less than 2 weeks to go!!!
I searched for an age for that Blog, as I knew I'd detailed the Structure, but I could not find it. Bravo you. Permission to give Alan a hug & a kiss is granted.
It's SPT Rich's call this year, so he'll take a look at it &, well, it's up to him.
Thank you for that.
Well a new year a new tour, we can either copy last yrs structure or try a new one. This is only leg 1, if it doesnt work we can always change it. Or play it safe and stick to what we know...
It's going to be great fun either way though.
I'll adjust last year's slightly as we have a bigger field playing and we'll revert to that sort of structure
Revised Structure 30 min levels, 5000 starting 150 players, 750,000 in play 2.00pm 25-50 2.30pm 50-100 3.00pm 100-200 3.30pm 150-300 4.00pm 15 minute break 4.15pm 200-400 25 4.45pm 300-600 50 5.15pm 400-800 100 5.45pm 600-1200 100 6.15pm 45 min buffet break 6.45pm 800-1600 200 7.15pm 1000-2000 200 7.45pm 1500-3000 300 8.15pm 2000-4000 400 8.30pm 15 minute break 8.45pm 3000-6000 600 9.15pm 4000-8000 800 9.45pm 5000-10000 1000 10.15pm 6000-12000 1000 10.45pm 15 minute break 11pm 8000-16000 1500 11.30pm 10000-20000 2000 12am 15000-30000 3000 12.30am 20000-40000 4000
Really looking forward to it, can't wait :-)
1. You have only allocated 30 minutes for the 45 minute buffet break (could cause indegestion)
2. The 2000/4000 level only has 15 mins
Well done SPT Rich for amending that, & to GlumBra for looking out last year's Structure.
I was to blame for not forwarding it to SPT Rich in the first place, & accept responsibility. I, in turn, will blame Orford.
Anyway, it's amended now, so all is good.
Being as it is a `tour` I wouldve expected a much slower structure so people can get a feel of playing a bigger tourney
I can design, as can SPT Rich, any structure which fits the criteria. I've also played "better" structured (= slower, faster, whatever tickles your fancy) Live Poker Tournaments, almost nightly for 10 years until the last year or so.
The design criteria here from Up Above was concise.
1) It needs to finish at a "sensible" time, as our Player-Base are regular working people, who are not used to playing poker until 5am.
2) It needs to recognize that the Team who run it - SPT Rich, the Staff, the TV Crew, myself, cannot reasonably be expected to work non-stop from 11am until 6am.
3) To create the best possible structure within that remit means starting in the afternoon.
So, it's been designed to start at 2pm, & finish not long after Midnight.
It's not possible - 100% GUARANTEED - to design a better structure within those critera. That's a fact, not an opinion.
If the Criteria are wrong, fine, the Structure could be different, but for now, those were the design criteria.
FWIW, the SPT is not ALL about the Main Event. It was witnessed by almost everyone who attended last year's SPUKT, (& I attended every Leg) that there was more mirth, fun, laughter, & "feel-good" about the One Table PTP SNG's, which the Presnters played back-to back, for as long as 12 hours at a time. So room need to be created for those, too.
This year, after play in the Main Event finishes, (by which time the Staff would have done 16 hours straight, without a break), we will be playing PTP SNG's, & Tighty SNG's, until about dawn, I imagine.
It's about giving the most number of people the best possible day. And we plan to do that.
However, I did not realise there was going to be so much side action going on so may be worth turning up without playing in the main tourney.
Quick question, will the final at dtd have a bigger starting stack being as its a 2 dayer, or will it be the same?
Apologies if I misconstrued that.
The Grand Final is a 2 day affair, with 10,000 chips & an achingly beautiful slow structure. Last year we began early afternoon on Day One, started again at 2pm on Day Two, & finished - exactly as planned - at about 11pm on Day Two.