re: tournament format
There's no reason it wouldn't work as a tourney format. The one format where it's problematic is No Limit - we've been playing around in NL where each does double the pot, rather than just the pot. It's a little closer to the correct number... But, tourneys? Yeah, no reason, IF it's a limit event.
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