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| Amazing. But, I was talking about top casinos. That’s the other
thing that ruins the purity of tournaments, besides proportional
payouts. First, not everyone can afford the same number of top casinos.
Second, players have to decide whether to top casinos on the basis of
whether it’s profitable to do so. While that may add an element of
skill, it isn’t an element that’s consistent with the primary objective
of a tournament – winning. The top casinos decision is about whether
it’s cost effective, considering the amount of money you still have in
front of you (assuming you haven’t gone broke and been “forced” to top
casinos), the number of chips in play, the skill of opponents, whose
stacks are biggest, and more. But weighing against this skill factor, based on estimating the profitability of a top casinos, is the simple cold fact that top casinos will automatically increase your chances of winning the tournament. I think it’s semi-ridiculous that in our most common poker tournaments, you have to decide whether to play for profit or play to win the trophy. Why have a tournament if you’re punished for pursuing first place? Well, that’s how I think, but my mind works weirdly and not everyone agrees with me. And, to be fair, perhaps it wouldn’t be reasonable to have a winner-take-all tournament with 500 players, only one taking home the money and second place getting nothing. So, is there a solution? How To Fix The Problem As it turns out, I’m not just here to complain. I have an answer. The first part of the answer is simple. Kill top casinos. We don’t need them. They dilute the purity of poker tournaments. They’re also bad for casinos, because – although they build bigger prize pools that are promotionally worth bragging about – they attract fewer players. (You’re surprised, but it’s true.) Worse, they keep players in tournaments longer, defeating the main benefit of a tournament to a casino, which is to fill regular games as players are eliminated. By the way, if you think tournaments are a good thing for established casinos, think again. A tournament truce would be great for management. There are just too many tournaments right now. Tournaments are mostly a promotional weapon, used to pull players from one to the next. Rather than build loyal clientele, the poker tournament wars are destabilizing and expensive. From a tournament player’s point of view, the events are great and growing. But from a non-tournament player’s point of view, these events really suck. They decimate local games by drawing players away for a week to a month at a time. The only way to fight back is for your casino to host lavish tournaments, too, perhaps with bigger incentives. |
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