Hey guys. I've found myself in quite an interesting position. I managed to win a seat to a tournament with a game called BaccPo (a hybrid Blackjack Baccarat game), with around 50-200 players competing, The winner of this gets a free $10,500 seat to the Aussie Millions poker tournament at Melbourne's Crown Casino!
Firstly, there is zero material out there on the game itself. It is played like Blackjack, in that each player gets 2 starting cards with the dealer getting 1 also. Players can then hit for one more card. The hands, however, are ranked like Baccarat. The best possibility is a 9. 3 card hands are greater than 2 card hands. Three 3s is the best possible hand, paying 3:1. Therefore the ranking is three 3s, any 3 card 9, a 2 card 9, 3 card 8, 2 card 8 etc. The dealer must draw to 6, the only exception being if they have two 3s, they will draw an additional card. If a player achieves a winning hand with any 7, then they are payed 1-2. I suspect this is where the edge comes from. Would anyone be able to perhaps run a simulation of some sort that identifies a kind of basic strategy akin to the one we see in BJ? Because as it stands, I'd be entering this tournament with little more than luck and a 'feel' of whether to hit or not.
Secondly, I've never played a tournament before and I suspect that it will be similar to tournament BJ in the way it's played. Do people have any tips for approaching tournament play? Good resources? I am very unfamiliar when it comes to betting/playing strategies based on your relative position to other players and stack sizing.
I'd like to come into this tournament with more knowledge of this BaccPo game than the rest and also better tournament strategy, also. A 1 in 50-200 shot of getting a free 10k poker ticket is too good an opportunity to waste, IMO.
Much appreciated.
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