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Originally Posted by iPlayPLOhigh
Grinder,
I'm confused why you think getting rid of the high roller would help the site. I think it'd actually do the opposite. It's been their flag ship nightly tournament since at least 2011 when I started playing here. Shockingly enough most people who play poker do so for fun, not as a job, and couldn't care less about BR management. With that said, if I had to guess I'd say over half the field if not more is sufficiently rolled to play it. Not to mention "professionals" are often backed.
Just because it's been around forever doesn't make it a flagship tourney, it makes it the most profitable, hence why they keep and promote it. They cap players such as myself at 4 tables because we have won too much, yet keep running a tourney like this that is well beyond the ABI of almost their entire prizepool.
To say that over half the field is rolled for it is a massive overstatement. A proper roll to run even a $90 ABI would be about $10K. Considering most players can barely get $5K off in a timely fashion why on earth would any player keep twice as much in their account? As for backing, there might be a couple dozen players on Merge backed and even if they are, they aren't playing that tourney by looking at player pool size.
By removing this tourney you remove ability for the average player to empty their bankrolls which in turn allows them to play longer and more often. These players you're talking about that play for fun are not signing on to dump $215 into a tourney. It's most likely someone that deposited a couple hundred into their account and is looking to get some value for their dollar. Make it a weekly tourney on like a Friday night and put a $50K gtd on it, then it has some glimmer and will draw a far bigger player pool.
If Merge is going to put a table cap on their top winning players because they want the money to be spread around more, removing the HR is a logical step. They worry about the top 1% of players taking away all the money so why not remove the tourney that gets played by the average player the least and use the same funds to add equity to tourneys the average player is much more likely to play. Good nightly MTTs>>>>>>>>>>>rake heavy, high buy in SNGs. Take the next highest prizepool, the nightly $11, the buy in is less than the rake ($15) they take for the HR. If the focus is to bring in more novice players, then why keep the one tourney that is so reg heavy and is almost always won by a said reg? All that does is allow the top 1% to keep winning the biggest prizepool on the site.
Last edited by Grindmentality; 04-21-2014 at 02:28 PM.