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Originally Posted by 420legalize420
Nah brahs. Turbo and hyper-turbo MTTs will never die. In fact, fast MTTs will outlive all of you together.
This discussion is pointless. And btw, long late registrations are **** and recs don't care about it. Huge prizepools are not that attractive also, when was the last time that a rec won a WCOOP or a sunday million? No one remembers. Maybe on microstakes, but higher limits? I don't see that happening.
You guys are crying like there is no more fish on MTT hahaha, play some cash games.
exactly not the point. That is my main point that good structures are more important for sustainability of profession for MTT regs than having a couple more fish in the game. You just want some amount of players that are absolutely crushing. And you want all professionals to make a living without having to go to psychotherapy sessions every 6 months. The discussion is not about how tough or not tough the fields are MTT fields are always going to be soft.
What I do think is that in such an environment it is more likely that at some point the fields will get much bigger again, more likely there is another poker boom and so on.
MTT Poker variance is high enough as is. But with good structures you can actually afford to play few tables and focus on quality. If they make the structures worse and worse, playing poker for professionals will just be a monotone stressful thing to do. Being forced to put in long hours and many tables.
the "mass tabling theory players" are who would gain the least from better structures. It is just the top players who would gain the most. If you are mass tabling playing robotic poker, you will not gain from the ability to select your spots more carefully, be able to exploit more with deeper stacks etc. It is a good thing to have an environment where hard work, passion and dedication are rewarded, just like in any other sports or competitive game.
And I do think it is good for the image of the game to have a certain amount of players who are dominating. You do not want this to go away. It will though if this trend keeps going on.
I have not followed regular daily MTT online poker too closely the last couple of years, other than participating myself. But I would venture to say that while there are players like C. Darwin2 that are absolutely dominating, the domination comes mostly from big series games where the structures have mostly been very good (other than in this particular case wsop main event which, knowing gg, probably was a bad structure). And it seems like Pokerstars even started to make those WCOOP and SCOOP structures worse now slowly. What will happen if they keep this up is, they will become as irrelevant as the Super Tuesday eventually.
Make structures even worse, turn everything into mystery bounties and soon you will not be interested anymore.