Great for getting experience at the table on the cheap.
I’ve done this one 3 times this year, most recently the last week in August. I played the first session every time and never had 6 players at the table. The Round I sessions are every 45 minutes. The semi-final is scheduled for 2:00pm with the final at 3:00pm. If there are 100 or fewer entries, 1st prize is 49% of the prize pool.
The last time I was there, I got into a minor flap with the tournament official over the procedure for the final-table wild cards. As I described in the Event Calendar the wild cards are drawn from the 4 players finishing BR2 in the semi-final; however, the written rules (#22) state the 2 wild card entries are drawn from all other semi-finalists. When I pointed this out, the response was, “That’s not right. We’ve always done it this way.”
I had never gotten past the first round on my previous two tries so I never stuck around for the final wild card drawing and was not aware that only the second place finishers were eligible. Which is actually not a bad deal. With only 4 semi-final tables in play, as BR2 you have a 50-50 chance of being drawn into the final table.
It would be nice to have the written rules agree with actual practice though.
--jr.
