-1 to making the Omanias 6-max. I think field sizes would start to drop because 1) recreational players lose at a faster rate and 2) 6-max is more difficult to multi-table than 9-max.
I think when you threw out the idea a few weeks ago, there were mixed opinions and one of the alternative suggestions that was a compromise of the two options was making them 8-max.
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Originally Posted by BryanS-PS
A minimum number of players of 9 is not unusual, really... and if a tourney can't even get that many to start, then it likely isn't a very viable tournament. It might be time for that tournament to simply go away... it's cancelled 11 out of the last 26 days and only averaged 25 players on the days that it has run... hmmm. We'll discuss this one...
That's an interesting idea, although $5K might be a bit ambitious given the usual prize pool for that tournament in its current time slot. Changing it to an Omania tournament will give it a boost, but I'm not sure that it will quite *triple* its normal figures. We'll discuss it...
I think both the $55 and $109 PLO8s are viable candidates to being turned into an Omania.
By changing a tournament to an Omania/Big, the field size will spike because of the deeper structure the tournament would receive, which also means 2 hours late registration. This extra hour of late registration makes a huge impact on the field size. Look at the # of players that late reg in the second hour of the existing Omanias, I'd ball park it at around 30% of the total participants.
If you don't think the $109 is worthy of being Omania, I would definitely not slash it from the schedule. Making it 6-max would positively affect the player field as the mid-high stakes players would prefer this format to 9-max.
This can also act as a stepping stone for those that want to eventually play the Weekly $530 (which is also 6-max). Right now, the only other 6-max PLO8 tournament on the schedule is the Saturday $55, which isn't even daily.