[RevStu]

I was confused, because it wasn't the same as the one we'd been trialling at Filo's for most of the previous month. There we went 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 400/800, 600/1200, 800/1600, and then 1000/2000 and on in increments of 1000. That seemed to work really well, but the structure we played on Thursday at the Assembly (with what must have been close to 40 players) was hardly any different from the old one, in that it still got to 500/1000 very quickly (helped by the 15-minute intervals) and then leapt up from there exactly the way it did before, until we were all playing bingo poker as usual. The trial structure allowed for a lot more skill IMO. If anything, Thursday's was worse than the old one.

Personally I think the really big blinds should be kept until late in the game - people will naturally bet bigger as the field shrinks anyway (since everyone has bigger stacks and there's no point taking 200 chips off someone who's got 11,000), and if you're an hour from closing time with 20 players still left it's easy enough for the pit boss to say "Okay, five-minute blinds from now on" or whatever it takes to get the game finished. The trial structure also kept the number of chip-ups to a minimum, which is less work for the organisers, less interruption to the game, and less of a signal to play crapshoot.