homogeneous blind structure

[Leo-Unibet]

 

Hi all,

We have been running all MTT's with two different blind structures since launch  last week.
But after some investigation as well as feedback from players we decide to use the same blind structure for all our MTT's.  This structure we chosen is quite flatter compare to the other one, this will give you much more playability in the tournaments.

This means that the length and playability of a tournament from now only can variance based on number of chips and the level-up time.
This will help all players to "get to know" the blind structure always used, our goal is that you in a few weeks will know it by heart :happy:

The changes will take place over the next few days, Sunday majors that are up in the client right now will not have the changes until following Sunday.

Below you find THE structure:

 

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	15	30	4
2	20	40	5
3	25	50	6
4	30	60	7
5	40	80	10
6	50	100	12
7	60	120	15
8	75	150	20
9	100	200	25
10	125	250	30
11	150	300	40
12	200	400	50
13	250	500	60
14	300	600	70
15	350	700	85
16	400	800	100
17	500	1000	125
18	600	1200	150
19	700	1400	175
20	800	1600	200
21	900	1800	225
22	1000	2000	250
23	1200	2400	300
24	1400	2800	350
25	1600	3200	400
26	1800	3600	450
27	2000	4000	500
28	2400	4800	600
29	2800	5600	700
30	3200	6400	800
31	3600	7200	900
32	4000	8000	1000
33	4500	9000	1125
34	5000	10000	1250
35	6000	12000	1500
36	7000	14000	1750
37	8000	16000	2000
38	9000	18000	2250
39	10000	20000	2500
40	12500	25000	3125
41	15000	30000	3750
42	17500	35000	4375
43	20000	40000	5000
44	22500	45000	5625
45	25000	50000	6250
46	30000	60000	7500
47	35000	70000	8750
48	40000	80000	10000
49	50000	100000	12500
50	60000	120000	15000
51	70000	140000	17500
52	80000	160000	20000
53	100000	200000	25000
54	125000	250000	31250
55	150000	300000	37500
56	200000	400000	50000
57	250000	500000	62500
58	300000	600000	75000
59	400000	800000	100000
60	500000	1000000	125000
61	600000	1200000	150000
62	700000	1400000	175000
63	800000	1600000	200000
64	1000000	2000000	250000

[MoreTBC]

Can we have a homogeneous minimum starting stack too? There are 20 dailies and a Sunday major (based on the excel sheet I downloaded on the 2nd) that start with sub 70bb as a starking stack and of them 14 have 4 minute blinds, which IMO should be classed as hypers, not turbos.

I checked the 'big 3' and their turbos come in at 5/6/6mins with hypers being 3 minutes (not sure if Party has hypers). No matter what the speed, they all start with at least 100bb.

I can't see any reason in not have 100bb be the minimum starting stack for any MTT and possibly the 4 minute MTTs be reclassified as hypers with some being replaced with 6 minute turbos.

 

[MoreTBC]

In addition, the speed column in the client does not match the blind levels for various MTTs. Just now it has Turbo/Normal/Deep which doesn't make much sense as 'deep' doesn't really represent a speed, more of a starting stack. The client looks like the following for me just now (Times in BST):-

20:30 - €1 Meteor Shower - Speed: Normal - Blind level: 8 mins - Starting Stack: 1500 (50bb)

21:00 - €2 Singularity - Speed: Deep - Blind level: 6 mins - Starting Stack: 5000 (166bb)

21:15 - €1 PLO Fireball - Speed: Turbo - Blind level: 4 mins - Starting Stack: 3000 (150bb) * has 10/20 structure

21:30 - €2 Wormhole - Speed: Deep - Blind level: 4 mins - Starting Stack: 8000 (160bb) * has 25/50 structure

22:00 - €2 Wormhole - Spped: Turbo - Blind level: 4 mins - Starting Stack: 3000 (100bb)

 

It's very confusing.

 

 

 

 

 

[MoreTBC]

One more thing, is this structure inc. antes being used for PLO MTTs?

[FeelsBadMan]

I agree with @MoreTBC that classifying the 4 minute blind tournament as deep as it's speed is confusing. Was watching Onscreen and he was trying to find a turbo tournament to play but all he could find was deep ones, so he couldn't find anything to play, because he just didn't expect to have to click on every deep tournament to see if it's a turbo . He is probably pretty representative of how a recreational would interact with the software. They should probably be classified more by blind minutes rather than starting stack, or maybe by average duration of the tournament adjusted by field size.

As for the blind structure I'm glad that this is becoming the standard on unibet. The transition between levels is great. 

[ArtyMcFly]

A homogenous blind structure is very welcome. Thanks.

As an aside, I always used to hate the level that had blinds of 120/240, as I'm terrible at the 24 times table, so thanks for getting rid of that one.

[MoreTBC]

@Leo-Unibet..

Was there a specific reason to go with 12.5/13.33% antes instead of 10% for the early levels?

[FeelsBadMan]

All the levels seem to be almost in that range not just the early levels. The old structure was a bit weird having mostly 12.5% and then you would have a 10% level at certain blind levels like the 500 level for example. Consistency is nicer IMO :atisfied:

[Leo-Unibet]

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@MoreTBC wrote:

@Leo-Unibet..

Was there a specific reason to go with 12.5/13.33% antes instead of 10% for the early levels?

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@MoreTBC I thought since the blind structure is rather flat I prefer a little more aggressiv ante configuration.    

 

[Leo-Unibet]

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@MoreTBC wrote:

One more thing, is this structure inc. antes being used for PLO MTTs?

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@MoreTBC No, PLO wil lrun without ante