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Originally Posted by wait
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I don´t understand...
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Originally Posted by Wilbury Twist
Somewhere, the production crews of every major televised poker tournament just experienced a collective stroke.
I'm sort of torn on your idea. On the one hand, I like the idea for the sports-analogy reasons you stated. Part of the idea of having a series rather than a single game in MLB, NBA, NHL, etc., is to more often reward the truly better team. (Of course, the real reason is the revenue.)
On the other hand, would such a system also make it less likely that an underdog rec wins the event, making them less enticing? If the NCAA basketball tournaments went to best-of-three series rather than single games, you would never see first-round upsets and the Cinderella runs that makes that event more compelling. I'd be afraid of the same happening to poker tourneys.
In fact, as I stated in the message, luck effect reduces but not so much. And I also opened the possibility of the best-of-3 , with shorter sets, that in practice, luck will not be practicely reduced.
I prefer with normal sets, but this could also make in very big tournaments. But anyways, a Heads Up , with same chips for both players, it is usually not more than 55-45% due to ability , not much more even if one of them is a very weak player. Best-of-3 could make it close to 60-40 but not much more.
This not reduce the cinderella much, but it could make it more spectacular
What would have it happen if Farha and Moneymaker would have continued playing with 0-1 lead...? (I don´t know who would have won it, but statistically Moneymaker would have been favourite, even being worse player, due to 1-0
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Originally Posted by SrslySirius
I worked the 2014 PCA, where the Main Event ended up with Timex and Panka battling heads up for like 7 hours. It lasted until about 5am. Everyone that had flights home the next morning really enjoyed it. Since I ended up getting stranded on the island anyway, it would have been extra fun to run it three times!
Well, here I opened 2 possibilities:
-Playing the 2 (or 3 sets) in same initial structure (if they are playing for a very big amount of bucks, they can play it longer; then they can play for a few hours more (This is my favourite approach, and it should be for larger and important tournaments: WSOP, EPT, main online tournaments.
In case of WSOP Main Event it could be even more than 1 day
-Playing the 2 (or 3 sets) with faster levels , in order that Heads Up doesn´t last forever; but on same time there is a guaranteed time (I like less the idea, but I recognize that is the only real possibility for standard tournaments and sit&go; both, online and real live