A Great Structure?

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The hand itself wasn't anything noteworthy. Michael "Timex" McDonald called a raise to 475 in position, checked through a flop that came {8-Diamonds}

and then folded on the turn {10-Spades}

to a bet of 1,700. What was more interesting was the discussion that Timex was having with Jason Mercier during the hand about tournament structures.

McDonald pointed out that the recent SCOOP tournament series run on PokerStars had such great structures that players were coming to the final table extremely deep in chips. "Compared to online, this structure sucks," joked McDonald.

Obviously, the EPT structure is excellent for live tournaments (one-hour levels, 200 big blind starting stacks). McDonald's point was that, because online poker plays so much more quickly than live poker, the 30-minute levels that were used for the high-stakes SCOOP events were a comparatively better structure.

Tags: Jason Mercier Michael McDonald