Tournament Prize Structures

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If it's our money, then surely we deserve the option to choose our own payout structure.

You could look back on my posts on this subject from the first time it was raised till now and you will see this is exactly my point, the problem is that there is no real way of doing it.
All a cardroom can do is advertise a structure and see who shows up, if its full they won't change things anyway.
There has long been a lobby for freezeouts and flatter structures but the fact is these are overwhelmed by bodies actually turning up at rebuys with steep structures.

2-3 times as many people turn up at my local casino for the £25 freezeout with a flattish payout than the £20 rebuy comp
dispite a rival casino having a rebuy on the same night as the freezeout the rival casino gets 1/4 of the runners

      this  i a simple local scenario,   not  the national trend imo.

leos liverpool,the broasdway  brum,    circus manchester  all get the BIGGEST funds  in £20-50  rebuys     not freezouts.

stoke circus gets 100+ weekly to their saturday £15  freeze, cos thats wat the local market likes.(it also has 20 min levels throughout)
conversely, the excellent monthly £100 freeze  with full buffet and £100  added gets significantly less.

if comps are advertised better and run proper then NEW people will come to the freezeouts where as they play a rebuy once and walk away as they want to play proper poker and not bingo for 2 hours



all REBUY periods end   and the comp always becomes a FREEZOUT remember.

horses for courses, but the average poker player is playing £10-£20 rebuys  in the majority, it has always been this way and surely will continue.

gl

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Walsall changed their £50 freeze back to a rebuy because of lack of demand a couple of years back and now their £30 freeze has become a triple chance comp (though i may have read that wrong).

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The " You can always do a deal" argument doesn't stand up. If prize structures were flatter, players could always do a deal to make them steeper again, but I don't think that would happen too often.

Woot?

"i tell you what guys lets do a deal, top prize is £1500 but i'll take £2000.........ok?"
Erm, i think not.

As for the dealing argument not standing up, i think you'll find in practise it already is.
The fact is there is no real lobby for flatter structures, so few actually make it the effort to change things and the folks that shout loudest are those opposed to change (not necessarily because they disagree with the change itself).
Look at this poll,  1% of members voted...........................