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Matt Savage on Re-Entry Tournaments
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2013-11-24 08:19
Re-entry tournaments – seemingly more and more popular with organizers each passing day – have long been the targets of critique in regards to the ill effect that they exert on the poker tournament industry, and ultimately, on the entire live/
online poker industry – cash games included.
The re-buy tournament structure – which allows players to buy into an event on each and every one of its Day 1 flights – is the brainchild of poker tournament director Matt Savage, and Savage himself has finally joined the growing choir of re-entry abuse critics. Although the novelty of his idea turned it into an instant success in 2010 when he first thought of it and introduced it, it has become clear that re-buys have grown to slowly but surely suffocate the poker industry.
It has always been known that massive re-entry events weren’t particularly rookie-friendly: by giving well-bankrolled pros the chance to return to an event from which they were eliminated time and time again, the odds got stacked against the rookies who simply couldn’t afford to do the same.
Matt Savage’s article on the adverse effects of re-entry tournaments has added a few new issues, mostly problems caused by the special tournament structure for tournament organizers/casinos. The public opinion has thus far regarded re-buys as great for the organizers who could meet their guarantees easier this way. Savage has shed a new light on this aspect though: according to Savage, tournaments have always been used with the primary goal of bringing players into the venues, and not for actual profit-generation. Those bounced from a tournament would then turn their attention to the cash games or to various other games offered by the operator. With the re-entries in this picture, this has pretty much been defeated. Players will usually toss their entire bankrolls at the event before getting up from the table to leave.
The solution suggested by Savage is to cut down on re-entries and to really think it over where the structure is employed in the future.
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