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Originally Posted by Daniel Negreanu
That's probably my biggest pet peeve in poker after last year's WSOP Heads Up event. People were complaining about completely random byes like they were getting "screwed" and it boggles my mind how dumb people can be.
As a teenager I used to play three pool tournaments a week and they never shut players out even if there were 23. A bye system is completely random and fair to all players. There are even alternate ways to do it to make it "even more fair" if possible.
Those players that DON'T get a buy only put up half the entry fee, i.e. they get a 50% refund and the winner gets into the finished bracket. For example, if you had a 67 players put up 10k a piece, the prize pool would still be $640,000.
6 players would put up only 5k while the other 61 put up the full 10k. The 3 winners of the extra matches are now in the 64 and you proceed as normal.
I'm against the idea of tournaments like shootouts or heads up events turning away players and don't see any logical reason for it.
Fwiw, here is the
complaint/analysis written by my friend Thomas Fuller after last year's WSOP HU event. Again, I don't quite understand why using byes is so unfair (since everyone has an equal shot at a bye), but Thomas uses math and stuff to support his position here, so maybe some of y'all will comprehend it better.
Last edited by Kevmath; 05-24-2008 at 02:49 PM.
Reason: copied from the other thread, as it should be up for discussion regarding the byes issue.