sunpoker blinds structure - every 10 hands

[karnouk]

Has anyone played on Cryptologic?
Any thoughts about the blind structure?

Blinds increase every 10 hands
7/15
15/30
25/50
50/100
100/200
200/400
300/600
500/1000

Starting chips are 1000 only

Is it a too steep structure?
What do you think of hands-based blind level increases?

I always played with a time based structure, and I was wondering if there is any particular downside with a hand based structure.

[taipan168]

Haven't played on Crypto so I can't really comment from personal experience.

That said, the old Party structure used to be hand-based rather than time-based. One of the advantages of hand-based blind increases is that players who take a long time to make their decisions can't cause the blinds to go up too early.

One of the disadvantages of a hand-based structure, and particularly the one described above, is that the blinds can increase extremely rapidly once you get to the push/fold stage. The structure you set out basically doubles the blinds every 10 hands from level 3, that's pretty steep.

[TLR]

The blind strucutre is a bit steep, especially with only 1000 starting chips, the fact that it goes up every 10 hands and not every set amount of minutes has the affects Tai mentioned, and it becomes much more critical once the table gets short handed, and each hand takes much less time because there are less people making decisions.

[CoccoBill]

The SunPoker thunder SnG's are very fast (faster than 6max turbos at Party), but the thunderstorms are just wack crapshoots. In them I think the blinds go up every 5 hands, so even in a 6max table after 5 orbits the blinds are the size of your starting stack. When I started playing there I found them amusing, went on a big winning streak because the players have mostly no idea how to play push/fold, hit some severe variance and got bored.

In general the RB at sunpoker is nice, games are tougher than party but softer than FT. The main downside is it's quiet, especially at the full ring SnGs.

[karnouk]

The SunPoker thunder SnG's are very fast (faster than 6max turbos at Party), but the thunderstorms are just wack crapshoots.

what do you think about the non thunderstorms? Compared to Turbos in FT or Pokerstars for example.

[CoccoBill]

Haven't played at pokerstars and it's been a long time since I played at FT, but in my opinion the games are softer than FT. They're not the fishiest you can find, but very beatable at micro/low stakes. Poker Tracker doesn't autoimport the hand histories btw, if that is relevant to you.

[TLR]

The whacikest and wildest format I played was the turbos at VC, blinds go up every 1 minute with a pretty steep blind strucutre,