Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Fresh

You have to hand it to the major sites - they are always doing something to try and keep things fresh. Whether it's double or nothing sit n goes, antes, badugi, you name it, there is always something different to try.

I couldn't get motivated to do much of anything last night so I decided to check out the new cashout tournament format from Full Tilt. The basic concept is that half your buyin goes into a cashout pool and you can cash out (sell) some or all of your chips at any time*.

Fascinating concept and I'd be interested to see how hard it would be to amass a stack, lock in a return of your entry and then try and freeroll your way to a cash. I wouldn't know because I'm very rusty and got lots of **** cards.

Will play again.

I also noted that the ante option has made its way down to some of the nanostakes tables. Deep stacked 6 max PLO with antes sounds like fun.

Thank you FTP for keepin' it fresh.

* any time being from the end of the late registration period until the final table. The final table gets the balance of the cashout pool based on chip counts.

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