Step challenge at Party Poker

[Penguinfan]

Marketing genius's they are, no doubt about that. Sure they are taking more than the standard rake here, but nobody notices, or nobody cares.


TP, it's $11+1 so 1819 start any given set of steps and 4 people actually cash out, when you look at it like that it seems horrible, huh?
But I can't help myself.

[PShabi]

Gonna have to give this a try tonight. Should be fun. I'll let you know how I made out?

Penguin,

Are the players playing differently in these types of tourneys?

Oh, and by the way. Yeah, it would suck to finish fifth in the final step but how can you complain at a chance to win that much money with a $12 buyin and only 20 people to beat?

When I make it to Step 5, I'll probably have some mad butterflies! Can't wait.

[Penguinfan]

No, the play of the game seems the same, though you have to adjust for the extra players and the fact that you will be playing 5 or 6 handed for a while, something that I find a bit tougher, especially since you go from 5 handed back to 10 handed when the tables combine. Also when you get to the final table (so to speak) you will be playing a regular 10 player SNG but with blinds at the level they have increased to and varying amount of chips, seems you better have at least doubled up at your first table to really have any use of decent strategy. You don't want to be in a situation where you have to double up and still have 8 opponents. If your a good SNG player and can adjust to these minor/major changes you may hit the jackpot.

I was a bit upset with myself in the second game I played yesterday because I was the chip leader with 6 players left and busted out 6th. Kept getting the short stacks pushing in when I was in the blind and it didn't cost me that much to call and I always had decent hand AQs, JJ, AKo, etc... and they kept catching with A/rag. In a game like this when there is only 20K in chips total it hurts to lose 700 or 800 even if your the leader and thats just what happened to me. If I would have won one of those hands where I was a racing favorite I think I would have been OK, but as it is I will be at level 1 in a few minutes.

[PShabi]

Shouldn't have any problem with the shorthanded to tenhanded aspect because I usually play 20 man SNGs so I'm used to it.

two more questions (don't bitch, Tp's paying you ):

If I'm down to three men, there's really no reason to win at one of the lower stages. I could just lose and still advance right? Seems like it.

Also, let's say I play and win up through STep 3. Am I required to play step 4 right then or is there another step 4 that I can enter later, or maybe the next day?

Can't necessarily devote that much time at once to poker. Baby might take a shit or something.

[Penguinfan]

Top 4 advance reguardless of finishing position.

You can play the following steps anytime you like. They just put a voucher in your account for the next game and when you open a step 2 table you have the option to use the voucher or buy-in with cash.