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Originally Posted by DogFace
I'd be playing the **** out of bingo tournaments if I could leverage my skill edge to get more tickets than my competitors.
Mystery bounties aren't bingo. More like loaded dice.
No, there’s no skill in dice, loaded or not. That’s why dice is not poker.
Anyhow, if what you say is true, then you believe you have a skill advantage over 85% of the field, but not the remaining 15%. Otherwise, why would you be eager to rely on your skill to get through the 85% and then leave things up to chance for the remaining 15%? That would seem to be a -EV strategy.
Fair enough. I don’t know how accurate your estimation of your own skill is, but regardless, I understand why the vast majority of players would want their results to be based more on luck in poker tournaments than they already are. There’s maybe a couple dozen players in the entire world who have a real skill advantage over everybody else. And everyone else should want luck to be more of a factor.
But I think the time commitment should be reduced if we’re just going to make luck a larger factor. I was half joking about the tournament just ending when the money is reached, but on further consideration, this would actually be preferable. Think of how large a percentage of the total time of a tournament is taken up by eliminating only 10 or 15% of the field. It can be way more than half the tournament. Other than satisfying egos, this is bad time usage, for both players and venues when the payout structure is flattened. I would actually be on board with a new variant which ended the event at 15% of the field remaining. It would be like a survivor but with a big pay day possible. I could play more events. I could turn whatever realistic skill advantage I have into better results by opening up a significantly larger percentage of the prizepool to me on a consistent basis. This is no joke.
Tournaments are too long as it is in series like the WSOP, and really in any event with blinds > 40 min and large field sizes. I say, have a good structure to play down to 15%, and then let’s roll the dice. It would be far better than rolling the dice and then having to grind for days more for a reduced payoff in order to satisfy my ego like it is with mystery bounties as they are currently structured. Maybe the bracelet thing would have to go away, but so what? Those have been watered down a great deal in recent years anyhow, and again, they are strictly an ego thing, and not really a true indication of overall success.