Party MTT: could it be that simple?
Sick of the 800 chips Party gives you in a SnG (and the blinds bouncing up every 10 hands), I decided to give one of their $10 MTTs a try. It was fun.
You know how on PokerStars, when people get close to the money, they tighten up, and it seems like nothing’s going to happen to the standings until you’re blinded out? Some sites play hand-for-hand to make sure nobody stalls at each level, but since Party doesn’t have that kind of thing in place, I figured there’d be some goofy tight play.
No way! It seemed like people weren’t changing their play at all as we got close to money time. Players just continued to file out in a steady stream, both at the money cutoff and as levels went up. I think it was at 82 people left that someone at my table was facing a deciding all-in. 80th place paid about four dollars more than 81st, so you might even use your time bank to see if 81 would die off… it’s sneaky, but legal. This player stalled, and 81 left. And then 80. And then that player disconnected: s/he wasn’t even playing tactically! Hilarious.
I finished somewhere in the top 50 of 2000. That paid something like $65: great, until you consider that I was up at midnight on Sunday, playing for almost four hours.
That’s only one experience, but if you hate Party or are wondering where the crazy money’s at, it would seem that you could do worse than the evening MTTs. Just not the SnGs: those are basically coinflips.