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November 1, 2008 by remoh.
You are a tournament Director in a 10 table poker room who is holding a 200 person major poker tournament with two Day 1 flights. However due to less than maximum registrations you end up with 150 entrants of which 100 wish to play Day 1A (eg Fri) and only 50 wishing to play Day 1B (eg Sat).
Do you do anything to cater for the imbalance such as possibly reducing the length of both Day1’s by 1 blind level (60 minute levels) to ensure enough players from Day1B make it to Day 2?
Do you do nothing? and let the tournament run its course…….for Day 1B at the end of the day from 50 players you may only have 10 left….
Im up for any suggestions or what may have been done in the past…..This is the first time we have run multi Day1 flights in a tournament due to popularity of the game.
TA Remoh
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