How to change play with Huge Ante Live Tournament

[thehangdude]

Our local casino has two no limit Texas holdem tournaments each week. Entry is $85 ($65 going to prize) and $100 ($75 going to prize). 20 minute blinds, and rebuys/late entry first two hours.
I want to play, but I have concerns about how to change my play to deal with antes.

By round two (20 minutes in) ante is 200, SB is 100, BB is 200. We start with 15,000 in chips.
I haven't been, but assuming 9 handed, before the deal there is 2100 in the pot. Is this right?
I understand they make money with rebuys, but this seems a bit crazy.

By end of late buys, the ante is 1600, SB is 800, BB is 1600.
15,000 chips are nothing when each hand starts with 16,800 in the pot.
Link to blind levels - https://www.terrehautecasino.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2-1.png

Could this be a misprint? Everywhere they listed antes, they just added an extra zero?
If not, how much is a first to act raise?
Is this going to be a shove/fold/rebuy tournament?
Has anyone played in anything like this?

Any advice before I go would be helpful.

 

[Tero]

Just ask them beforehand.

20 minute levels, and yet your chips are eaten like in Spin & Go's ??? No, that doesn't make sense, at least not in my world.

 

[dannystanks]

It’s probably a Big Blind Ante. That’s how all the tournaments are these days. So the only one paying the Ante is the Big blind each time so you don’t have to adjust your game a whole lot.

 

[Debi]

It’s probably a Big Blind Ante. That’s how all the tournaments are these days. So the only one paying the Ante is the Big blind each time so you don’t have to adjust your game a whole lot.

This is how most live tournaments are played now and agree - no need to adjust really.

 

[thehangdude]

It’s probably a Big Blind Ante. That’s how all the tournaments are these days. So the only one paying the Ante is the Big blind each time so you don’t have to adjust your game a whole lot.

That makes sense. So if the blinds are 200/400 ante 400, a 3X raise would be 1200 into a 1000 pot. BB would need to drop another 800 to call. Right?

That is a structure I think I can play.

 

[SpanRmonka]

That makes sense. So if the blinds are 200/400 ante 400, a 3X raise would be 1200 into a 1000 pot. BB would need to drop another 800 to call. Right?

That is a structure I think I can play.

BB would need to call 800 yes. The 'mistake' the BB can make is feeing more committed as they happened to put the ante in too, so technically this hand they put 800 in already......but you still need t play the hand as if you put 400 in already......

When short, I'm sure there should be some adjustment due to putting in effectively 2 BBs in a few hands......like maybe you shove wider, as you can get blinded down more suddenly especially if the level also increases at a similar time as your BB

 

[SpanRmonka]

In my local place, when getting down to 2/3 tables and only 5/6 players there is a half BB charge at 5 or 6 players, I forget which.....the dealers can be poor at noticing this, so its good to know what the rule is for your BB in this situation!!

 

[dannystanks]

That makes sense. So if the blinds are 200/400 ante 400, a 3X raise would be 1200 into a 1000 pot. BB would need to drop another 800 to call. Right?

That is a structure I think I can play.

Correct. You should get used to this structure if you ever play a major live tournament. The way I think about the BB ante is once you put it out it no longer belongs to you, it’s part of the pot so play accordingly.

 

[Poker_Mike]

Correct. You should get used to this structure if you ever play a major live tournament. The way I think about the BB ante is once you put it out it no longer belongs to you, it’s part of the pot so play accordingly.

I wish I could play Big Blind Ante type tournaments online.

Does anybody know of any?

 

[skaterick]

the only thing i find strange about that rule is the size of the BB ante stays the same as players bust out at a table (9 handed its 1bb total, and in the same level but 7, 6 or 5 handed,its still 1 bb ).

 

[Emily Trott]

In my local place, when getting down to 2/3 tables and only 5/6 players there is a half BB charge at 5 or 6 players, I forget which.....the dealers can be poor at noticing this, so its good to know what the rule is for your BB in this situation!!

Foxwoods used to do that, at least in the tourneys I played, when it got down to the final table. Personally I don't like the ante idea at all and used to enjoy playing at the casino in Concord NH because they didn't have it.

 

[Poker Orifice]

the only thing i find strange about that rule is the size of the BB ante stays the same as players bust out at a table (9 handed its 1bb total, and in the same level but 7, 6 or 5 handed,its still 1 bb ).

Yah I find this a bit strange as well.

 

[Jillychemung]

In the Corning Poker Club, the structure reduces the Ante to the size of the SB when all tables reach 6 or less players, since we use 9 handed tables that means it is reduced at 12,11,10,6,5,4,3,2 players remaining. It adds a bit more play to the end of the tournament.

 

[skaterick]

In the Corning Poker Club, the structure reduces the Ante to the size of the SB when all tables reach 6 or less players, since we use 9 handed tables that means it is reduced at 12,11,10,6,5,4,3,2 players remaining. It adds a bit more play to the end of the tournament.

that seems reasonable .

 

[dori111]

you need to play carefully, not show any emotion, live poker is a completely different game