Millionaire Maker?
The Millionaire Maker is right after the Monster Stack this year. It seems very similar on paper, except with half the chips. I've never played it but I have played the Monster Stack a couple times. Am I going to feel like a lot of value is missing if I play it right after the Monster Stack?
Are there any other aspects I'm missing?
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They are effectively the same since it's level length that matters.
Yoy just miss out on the first 2 levels of "deep stack" poker. They'll both reach the money in the same relative level with milly maybe a level or two earlier just because it's less chips (but same average BB)
So if you value the first two levels of monster where pots aren't that big then that's what you'll miss out on.
They are effectively the same since it's level length that matters.
Yoy just miss out on the first 2 levels of "deep stack" poker. They'll both reach the money in the same relative level with milly maybe a level or two earlier just because it's less chips (but same average BB)
So if you value the first two levels of monster where pots aren't that big then that's what you'll miss out on.
Really? The stack is half as big as the Monster, but the difference is that small?
I actually missed the first level and a half of the Monster last year because of heavy traffic, and having trouble getting around because my back was acting up.
When did the MM money bubble burst? I didn't make the money in the Monster, but was probably about 2 levels away. My guess is it was late afternoon on Day 2.
They play very similarly. I have the small flex of being able to say I cashed the Monster in 2023 and the Milly in 2024.
Both will bag up about 20-25% on day 1. You come back on day two and hit the bubble by mid-day.
Milly plays slightly faster, but it's a negligible difference.
Stack size isn't the be-all, end-all for structure. The events have the same level length and (I may be wrong on this) Monster might start on a higher blind level.
Last year the prize pool of the Millionaire maker was 125%+ of the Monster:
https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournam...
https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournam...
Structurewise, the Monster was better last year, not leaps and bounds better, but better:
The Milly Maker starts at 100/100/100 with 25k stack and the Monster starts at 100/200/200 with 50k stack so you start the same number of big blinds deep and the level lengths are the same.
They play very similarly. I have the small flex of being able to say I cashed the Monster in 2023 and the Milly in 2024.
Both will bag up about 20-25% on day 1. You come back on day two and hit the bubble by mid-day.
Milly plays slightly faster, but it's a negligible difference.
Stack size isn't the be-all, end-all for structure. The events have the same level length and (I may be wrong on this) Monster might start on a higher blind level.
You are right! Milly starts at 100/100/100.
I think in my first bracelet event the first level was 25/25. But then I only got T1500, because I only gave them $1500. I was hurting by level 4, and out around level 6. Two-thirds of the field went out before me though, which is actually one of my better results.
