Well, looks like the world continues to grow madder by the day. Had been facebook friends (and friendly in person) with the tournament director at the Tampa Hard Rock, we talked tech, etc.
But he just unfriended and blocked me on Facebook over my comments (which weren't even attacks in the post, I pointed out a lot of great things I commended him for, and my disappointment at some changes in the latest event I played).
One of the dealers there (Michael Laake) started chiming in and many of us were responding to him. He used to be a sponsored pro for Hollywood Hard Rock (has almost $1 million in cashes) but is now a dealer in Tampa and has two small tourney cashes in the past 2-3 years)
They took their standard tourney format which used to give you 30K chips and start at 100/100 and bumped it down to 20K chips and yanked out the first two levels, starting you off at 100/200 with a 200 BB ante instead
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