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My wife is out of town, there is no football, so I am going to play one of the big sunday tournaments this weekend. What I want is everyone's opinion on whick one of them is best.

I would prefer a deepstack, reasonably slow structure. After that, a flatter payout would be good. I have never played in any of the Sunday specials, some I am looking for feedback as too which one is the best. I have accounts with most cardrooms, and am willing to open one up if the tournament is right.

PS has a boat load of people and bodog has a huge overlay

UB has a good strucutre w/ 150k gar, so only 700-900 ppl about 80 spots usually pay. Outside of that RiverStars has the best payout and structure combo IMHO.

Where's Zimm or PmJackson to help out with this.

Personally, I like the FCP Big Deal now. $320 buyin, usually around 250-300 players. Good structure, and some bad players. Stars and Party are both huge, but structures are pretty poor.

UB has best structure, but few bad players, so getting chips is tougher. I would play, but it starts too late for me at 9PM EST.

Thanks for the input so far. Any thoughts on Full Tilt's?

I think the timing might be wrong for me on FCP otherwise I might give that a shot as well. UB looks good, I am a west coaster so that is a possibility.

tilt is a smaller tourney (I think the gar. is less or at 100k. Tilt has always had the best structure for their "normal" tournies, it probably carries over.

Hoosier? any input?

Full Tilt's is good... I wish they ran it every week though.

Well, mostly I wish I didn't work on Sundays so I could play, or try to sattelite in at least. It's starting to draw more people lately, so the prize pool is getting closer to 300k (I think.)

The prizes are bigger at Stars and Party, but better site and structure at full tilt. Depends how many people you wanna wade through.

I like the one on Stars. The 500K guaranteed structure isn't so great, but this weekend is the 700K which has a little bit better structure, 2500 starting chips and 20 min. blind levels. I prefer big fields though so I guess it comes down to personal preference.

It's 200k guaranteed and it's been going over lately. You also start with 2000 chips instead of 1500.

dang Im behind on my info, it used to be only 100k and weekly. oops

700k guarantee? How many players in that field? the structure sounds good, but unless the buy in is 1k that is a whopping large field.

It's a 500+30 buy-in, so at least 1400 players if there's no overlay(which there never is).

Thanks everybody. I think I am going to give the Full Tilt one a whirl.

I'm sure we'll hear from you in the official thread. Let us know how you do.

Tilt and UB are the best for what you're looking for. I actually think UB has the best overall.

The UB one is by far the best imo. Good structure, good payouts and not overly huge.

The pokerstars 500+30 buy in has a decent structure with 20 min blind levels and 2500 starting chips. You're looking at over 2k people this week I would think as the normal 200$ has been drawing over 4k. So a prizepool of 1 mill + its about as big as it gets for online.

I think the best idea is to simply play them all.

If zeejustin can do it, why can't you?

bodogs $100 buyin 100k guaranteed, always has an overlay.

Nobody mentioned Prima's 100k tourney for good reasons. It would cost ya a pretty penny to play them all but that would be a fun adventure.

I like UB

I like bodog too, cuz its cheap and has a good overlay. The players are terrible too, unfortunately the structure sucks, but until the day we can get all three things on 1 site (bad players, overlays, and good structures) I say 2 out of 3 isnt bad.


oh yea, you do get all three things in the PR grand tourneys. except those arent held every sunday, and the buy in is 1k :-).

btw, zimmer what does 1st usually pay in the Big Deal tourney? Do they give you 1500 in chips or more? thx

UB is the best...and everyone knows why :-)

Any thoughts on Full Tilt's?
hope it doesn't crash

because they offer a free hooker for a night when you win the sunday tournament?

They start you with 2500 chips, but blinds also go up decently fast as well, but it's a much better structure than Party.