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Originally Posted by clivestraddle
Curiosity question
There is now a push for larger and larger prize pools as clubs compete for the tournament crowd - of course this means deeper stacks - bigger buy-ins - etc
Lets say we have 250 (this is the most tables any club has) poker players who represent the entire poker playing public
if you were to create a "perfect model" for capturing the most $$$$s for a tournament - what would you make the buy in - rebuys - add-ons - time limits and starting stacks.
Last stipulation - you can not have multiple starting days - This will most likely be a 2 day tournament on Sat and Sunday or a Sat/next Saturday - Sunday / Next Sunday tourney
HUGE fan of one entry. Period. You can late-reg, but you are only entering ONCE.
Was NOT a fan of the Marathon allowing entries two levels in on Day 2. Granted, it was still only the end of Level 8, but if you cannot be bothered to reg SOMEWHERE on Day 1, then you weren't really looking to play. And I say this as someone who was busted by a person there from the beginning, not a Day 2 Late Reg PushMonkey, lest someone believe I busted at the hands of a walk-up.
Anything less than 20K starting stack generally does not get my attention, even in Vegas. There are some that I will consider that begin with less, but usually either a mixed game or a Seniors event (the conversation that occurs actually makes up for SOME of the smaller starting stack).
Entry fee is driven by expected turnout. For example, on this next trip to Vegas (I go back Friday AM despite just having gotten back to IAH this morning), I am sort of considering one of the Senior High Rollers but only if it looks like it will be more than 100 entries. It is not worth playing an event if you are not going to have enough runners to pay the entire Final Table.
Locally, I don't know that I would be willing to pay more than $1K at some of these places...the shenanigans are too much to place trust in. In a regulated industry, that would be a small buy-in though.