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Originally Posted by JimL
I think this is a terrible idea for most of the reasons others have said. Keep the Main Event as it is.
That said, I would like to see the WSOP add some quirky meta tournaments. Maybe a tournament where there are no rebuys, but a player can buy multiple times the starting stack when buying in. So let's say the tournament is a $3000 buy in tournament. A player can enter for $12,000 and start off with 4 times the starting stack. Furthermore make it a bounty tournament. If $1000 of the entry goes to bounties, the player who bought in for $12,000 has a $4000 bounty on their head.
Things like that that don't change the poker play, but change the meta aspects of the tournament.
I think a tournament such as this would be very geared towards the pros (start with a bigger stack to be able to consistently knock out smaller amateur players). But a middle level pro wouldn't want to overpay and provide an overlay to the better pros. Basically the point of this type of tourney would be to realistically know your place versus the competition. That is why I think it would be great for both the absolute amateurs (which are only going to buy in for thr minimum) and the absolute best tournament pros (who can navigate a decent stack against both amateurs and other pros). An amateur who gets lucky and doubles up a couple of times and is now competing against pros who paid many multiples of what he did is a good story. Plus the best pros would generally be around at the end.
Plus it would be great to see someone just buy in for 1000x (or more) the starting stack and see what happened.
I had a similar idea that I think could work well as a WSOP side event.
My idea was a tournament that allows you to late register with an average stack, so that you start with more chips as players are eliminated and the average stack increases. The caveat is that the buy-in amount increases as the average stack increases.
This would allow players from drastically different buy-in levels to all compete in the same tournament. The early levels could be looked at sort of like a satellite for a higher buy-in event.
So imagine the buy-in starts at $100 for 10,000 chips. Eventually as the blinds go up and the chip average hits 100,000 you would have to pay $1,000. Maybe registration would end with a max late reg being equivalent to $10,000 for a 1,000,000 average stack. There could also be intermediate amounts so for example the tournament starts as a $100 buy in, then goes up to $200, $500, $1,000, $2,000, $5,000 with a final buy in level of $10,000, with the starting stack increasing every time the buy in amount increases.
I think this would be cool for recreational players and pros alike. A total novice could spend $100 at the start of the tournament, and be able to say they played in the same tournament as top pros.
For the pros you could register late at a higher buy in amount for the opportunity to play with an average stack against a field that includes a bunch of low stakes players that ran up big stacks.
Seems like it could be a fun novel format.
