Value of Chips and Increased Rake at the Fort

Subject:      Re: WRGPT :  slow play + PS : Fort McDowell news
From:         Jim Geary 
Date:         1997/02/07
Newsgroups:   rec.gambling.poker


V.S. Senthilkumar wrote:
 
> Is there any advantage for a player to intentionally delay the game
> in WRGPT?
> 
> Their thinking might go some thing like,
> "Let me play slow so that more people will get busted in other tables.
> And my chips would be worth more because of the reduced number of
> players alive"
> 
> I understand the we follow the same format as WSOP.
> But timeout is unique to WRGPT. And wonder whether we introduced a
> possibility of angle here.

The chips going up in value due to field thinning only applies when
playing in multiple-places-paid tourneys (that is the winner takes
a bad beat after having accumulated all the chips).  For a glory
tournament, 7th is about as good as 77th, therefore chips are 
proportionate throughout.  

Jim Geary

PS  found out last night playing at Fort McDowell that they have
raised there rake almost 50%.  Whereas it was a $2 drop on the flop,
it is now 2 on the flop and 1 on a hundred which is the majority of
pots at 10-20/15-30.  What are we getting for this extra dollar, I don't
know.  A fistfight broke out in the 30-60 next to me and I swear it took
10 minutes to get even one security guard to the table.  Rumor is 
check-raising is frowned upon at those limits..

I'll continue to play there cuz it's the only game in town.  One day,
though, the Salt River tribe will open up something 15 miles from me
(the fort is 35) and I'd bet that the majority of the big play will
move there.  The future casino will be situated in North Scottsdale
which should bring in a lot of nice new money at the bigger limits.
Perhaps Fort McDowell is feeling empowered by the governor's hardball
tactics negotiating future compacts with tribes, but Symington is on
shaky ground politically and the tribes will be around a long time.

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