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Originally Posted by Parasense
Thats why small field progressive knockout tournaments are so nice. If you can easily get up to thrice the amount of second place if you win them, you are not incentiviced to nit it up so hard, regarding ICM.
I haven't gotten into the PKOs, but it sounds like a fun format. I might have to take the time to study up a little and give them a shot. I recently started playing a few mystery bounties and regular bounties.
The mystery bounties are a lot of fun! Adds a fun gambly element, and takes the sting away a little when you get eliminated if you get to draw for any bounties
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Originally Posted by Wilbury Twist
For those of you who were around this game pre-boom, was it such that the WSOP was really the only sizable tournament series and all others were pretty small in scale? I wonder if we're seeing poker contract back in that direction. Perhaps the size of the WSOP ME field is not a good indicator of poker's overall health – it might mean that players generally save up for that one month and largely blow off poker at all other times of the year.
On the other hand, this is a site where we so often take a "lol samplesizements" stance. Maybe we're all reading too much into a handful of overlays.
I can't speak about the poker tourney scene pre Moneymaker, but it seems to me like right now live tournament poker is overall doing very well.
The way I see it there's likely just an element of the overall economy that gets reflected in poker too. All the extra government money circulating during the pandemic likely contributed to the mini poker boom we experienced.
I think you might be right about the sample size comment though. Right after we were discussing all those overlays the next tournament I entered had more entries than last year and tripled the guarantee.
Still, I feel a subtle shift that I'm attributing mainly to the FED tightening. Like just today I saw a headline that Target is dropping prices on thousands of items to compete with Walmart. A few months ago the question was how much retailers were going to raise prices.
If recreational players are feeling the squeeze with inflation and expensive debt, it stands to reason that they'll have less disposable income to spend on poker.
Maybe not though. I could be misreading things. People were sure firing in this last tournament!