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Originally Posted by Black Aces 518
You’d be closer in analogy if instead of the table “forfeiting” the blinds, the random table had everyone put in 2BB preflop as a splash pot. Antes aren’t “forfeited” they are redistributed at that same table.
Ok. Everyone at a random table pays extra "bonus" antes. I continue to fail to understand why you consider hands won as an applicable factor when analyzing structure. Nowhere in Arnold Snyder's tournament structure formula do you plug in hand win rate. Nowhere in plog's tournament structure analysis tool do you plug in hand win rate. Nowhere in any structure analysis tool I have ever seen do you plug in hand win rate. Yet all of these tools consider antes and blind sizes, which as you have mentioned, remain on the table.
Hand win rate is an unknowable factor. If your hand win rate happens to be extremely high, the structure is virtually irrelevant. But if your hand win rate is extremely low, that's when the structure is important. So again, when analyzing BBA structures, it doesn't matter whether the antes disappear into thin air or remain on the table. Its the size of the antes/blinds that matters. And with BBA, some people are paying a higher price per hand dealt by luck of the table draw.