Re: Making Tournaments Better Tests Of Skill
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The survival of ring games is due to the fact that the less skilled players frequently win. The same is true for tournaments. If most tournaments were won by the most skilled players, they would quickly die off.
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I agree with your first point, ring games need a great deal of chance to keep weaker players playing. But I'm not so sure about your second, if I wasn't clear I'm not talking about small tournaments, just top tournaments. Big events like the WSOP and WPT are going to get a lot of entries either way. And audiences want recognizable heroes. We want to increase audience size, don't we?
Would anyone care about the Tour De France if Lance Armstrong got knocked out the first day three years in a row and every year it was won by someone who just started cycling a month ago? We want to establish that poker involves skill, and having repeat winners and final table participants helps establish that.
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