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Originally Posted by Lord_Strife
Maybe they should be scheduled to play the FT the next day unless someone disagrees? Play the FT at noon or something the next day so you get some sleep and can still play the next days event? Dunno
Forum discussions like this one are great ways to brainstorm and potentially offer improvements. However, we need to keep the base assumptions clearly in mind:
1. This is a
ONE DAY MTT. That really isn't debatable from Caesar's Entertainment's perspective.
2. It is a
DEEP STACK (lol) MTT and plays that way for about 4 hours. This is awesome for the recreational players looking at a fun structure for the first x # of levels. Not many (out of the 1,200-1,400+) really looks that closely at the inflection points, the patience factor, or the mathmatical certainty that this MTT with 1,400 * 15,000 = 21 MILLION chips will be finished in about 12 to 14 hours with breaks!
3. It is sqarely targeted at the
$200-$300 buy in market segment and thus is leveraging the incredible WSOP structure for the bracelet events. It was like a dream come true to see $50K+ for first last year. Most recreational one days are happy to get ~$3K for first, maybe $5K on the week-end! IMHO it was C.E.s response to the VDS, GN series, etc. that were taking this segment out of the RIO on non-NLHE bracelet events. However, it was never a featured event of the WSOP and really never will be. They are already structured to run the WSOP, these are almost truly variable cost events for C.E.
4. They run
3X per day, every day (with a few notable exceptions). Any small change to the current structure will have significant impact on daily operations for the WSOP. Prolly not gonna happen!
I say we actually give some props to C.E. here and appreciate how well they handled the success of these as field sizes grew to what was surely more than 3 sigma above their expectations, yet they didn't miss a beat! I for one will be playing several of them this summer.