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Originally Posted by the_bridler
Ante up, win the button, 100% ko, bubble rush all garbage
Ante up is probably the most strategically interesting NLHE variant spread on PS. Bryan took pride in the fact that grinders would ask him not to spread it because it was too hard. The skill gap is pretty large too. Not only do you have people folding for 5 chips in a pot of 7000, you have to develop a limp/backraising range and all sorts of other cool stuff no one has never even had to think of before.
As for win the button, this variant has been immensely popular on the EPT, so it's about time it made its way to the online client. It spices up an otherwise boring slow deepstacked NLHE event into something fresh and new and eye catching without really changing the game. Not to mention I'd think you grinder sickos would love anything that not only gets people excited but increases the skill gap. You should do well at increasing your aggression to win the button and adapting to other people doing the same, probably more than they should.
I've never played 100% KO, so I can't comment if it's good or bad or fun or lame, but innovation is rarely a bad thing. If you hate it so much, don't play! Not every tournament is meant to be for every person. In general, I don't like the idea of KO tournaments in championship series since you create conflicting goals: winning the title and winning max $ which involves winning KOs even if it decreases your chance of winning the title (especially so with PKO, in reg KO it stops mattering at the end) -- however between the lack of SCOOP watches and the high total number of events, it keeps like winning the title is less meaningful these days, so whatever.
Assuming Luke follows in Bryan's footsteps, saying a tournament is a turbo or hyper means it's turbo or hyper according to SCOOP standards, much deeper and slower than your regular turbo or hyper. Luke, if you could confirm this, it would probably assuage a lot of concerns. Again to all your nit grinders, if you had to chose between a turbo event and a bubble rush, which would you chose? Yeah, I thought so.