Tourney Thoughts on Modified ACR Cage Event (PLO) (1 Viewer)

[Alex Lundstrum]

Watching Jeff Boski's most recent vlogs has inspired me to look at putting together a PLO cash/tourney combination.
- $60 Buy-in w/ option for "double buy" (see below)
- No late reg or re-entry
- 4 x 80 minute levels w/ 10 minute breaks between each level.
- L1 $0.25/$0.25 w/ $2 BU ante
- L2 $0.25/$0.50 w/ $3 BU ante
- L3 $0.50/$0.75 w/ $5 BU ante
- L4 $0.50/$1.00 w/ $6 BU ante
- All all-ins will be run twice from whichever street the all-in occurred.
- Double buy: Option to pay additional $60 up front. Additional chips come in whenever you want, but are required to play if you are felted. Chips may be cashed out at end of game if not used.
- At end of game, chips are cashed out for current value.

I'd love to hear thoughts on the idea and/or structure.

 

[detroitdad]

Sounds like your making a cash game more difficult than it needs to be.

 

[Alex Lundstrum]

Sounds like your making a cash game more difficult than it needs to be.

This was my worry. I think the thought behind the ACR Cage is to feel more like a tourney than a cash game. The issue with the above is that it's half the length of the ACR Cage. Most home game cash players stay the full length anyways. Would it feel more like a tournament if it had same length levels as ACR and went two days?

 

[BGinGA]

Sounds like your making a cash game more difficult than it needs to be.

I dunno..... sounds more like to me that it's a six-hour long limited-exposure event ($60 or $120 max loss) that mostly plays like a cash game but with minimally-increasing blinds over the duration. I like the run-it-twice feature, but I'd still expect to see a lot of players busted out by the time it gets to L4, since that's the nature of PLO without really deep stacks.

It's a hybrid cash/tourney event, which, with actual-stack-size payouts, are great for exposing new players to either cash play or new games like PLO, depending on your crowd. We run a similar NLHE event occasionally.