Saturday, October 4, 2008

Poker After Dark Home Game

I have been watching the latest Poker After Dark and starting thinking - scary, I know - that it would be fun to try this at one of my home games.

I fired up my best friend, Google, and started my quest for the official PAD tournament structure.  I did find one reference to it but it wasn't a terribly reliable source.  Finally I posted on 2+2 and the forum at Poker Road Radio

During last summer's WSOP I had participated in a couple of Poker Road Radio's AIM chat's during a broadcast.  This morning I noticed that PRRadiochat was online.  Being my usual bashful self I accosted the poor guy:


gadzooks64: Hey, I'm looking for the Poker After Dark Tournament structure... can anybody over there hook me up?
prradiochat: trying to find it...
gadzooks64: Thanks!
prradiochat: 100/200. 150/300, 200/400, 300/600, 400/800, 600/1200, 800/1600, 1k/2k for sure
gadzooks64: OK.  Antes?
prradiochat: none, 20k chips  after 1/2k, i think it goes 1,500/3,000, 2/4k, 3/6k, etc
gadzooks64: OK, I had found this:
gadzooks64: 100-200
 150-300
 200-400
 300-600
 400-800
 600-1,200
 800-1,600
 1,000-2,000
 1,500-3,000
 2,000-4,000
 3,000-6,000
gadzooks64: but not at a real reliable source
prradiochat: i went thru this week's show, and all those levels thru 800/1600 were there
prradiochat: the rest are logical
gadzooks64: ok, awesome!  Thanks!
gadzooks64: right
prradiochat: np
gadzooks64: I'm going to have a home game with it
gadzooks64: should be interesting
gadzooks64: going with 30 min levels though cause we don't have all night
prradiochat: i think they use 20 min levels
gadzooks64: srsly?
gadzooks64: I read 45
gadzooks64: but that seemed long
gadzooks64: 20 seems short
prradiochat: they usually have to do 2 or 3 shows a taping
prradiochat: so it's a fast structure
gadzooks64: wow, cause it seems they try to make it seem slower
prradiochat: maybe it's 30 minutes for levels...
gadzooks64: they have to get 5 hours of show
gadzooks64: and they show almost every hand
prradiochat: well there's plenty of commercials/filler
gadzooks64: true
gadzooks64: I think 30 min levels will be good
prradiochat: should work for you
gadzooks64: yep
gadzooks64: Thanks, I really appreciate it!
prradiochat: glad to help

I (heart) Poker Road Radio!

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