Time to restructure the payouts

[BigSlick75093]

That was terrible poker at the final table. Everyone was simply playing to move up in the cash. That's the problem when it's 90% amatuers at the final table. But when there is 1/2 million to a 2 million difference between places, how can you blame someone making less than $100k a year?

So I think they need to pay positions 9 - 2 just about the same amount, and make 1st place 3x to 4x what 2nd place plays. That's the only way you'll get the short stacks to play poker.

[HLMencken]

Better idea: Time to kill the WSOP.

[DVaut1]

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Better idea: Time to kill the WSOP.

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I can see Harrah's buying into this:

"Turn the trucks of money around guys. We don't want it. At Harrah's, if the quality of poker play will suffer, then by god, we will no longer be a party to this highly profitable brand."

I suspect HET stockholders will be overjoyed to hear management took a stand -- if the FT at the WSOP ME becomes some kind of weak-tight nut-peddling donkathon, Harrah's wants no part of it, profit margins be damned.

[ononimo]

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So I think they need to pay positions 9 - 2 just about the same amount, and make 1st place 3x to 4x what 2nd place plays. That's the only way you'll get the short stacks to play poker.

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Better idea: Make the WSOP ME a winner-take-all tournament. Next year's first prize = $80 million+. Then we'll see some REAL poker.

and fyi, $500k - $2 million is still a lot of money to the vast majority of pros, too. even the ones who are on tv every week.

[sekrah]

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So I think they need to pay positions 9 - 2 just about the same amount, and make 1st place 3x to 4x what 2nd place plays. That's the only way you'll get the short stacks to play poker.

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Better idea: Make the WSOP ME a winner-take-all tournament. Next year's first prize = $80 million+. Then we'll see some REAL poker.

and fyi, $500k - $2 million is still a lot of money to the vast majority of pros, too. even the ones who are on tv every week.

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I'm not saying the Main Event should become a winner takes all, but I wouldn't mind WSOP creating another more event for $2k or $5k that would be winner takes all.

[Rottersod]

Did it seem like the 12 million in cash they stacked on the table didn't look all that impressive? I expected it to fill the whole table many feet high.

[Assani Fisher]

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So I think they need to pay positions 9 - 2 just about the same amount, and make 1st place 3x to 4x what 2nd place plays. That's the only way you'll get the short stacks to play poker.

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Better idea: Make the WSOP ME a winner-take-all tournament. Next year's first prize = $80 million+. Then we'll see some REAL poker.

and fyi, $500k - $2 million is still a lot of money to the vast majority of pros, too. even the ones who are on tv every week.

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I'm not saying the Main Event should become a winner takes all, but I wouldn't mind WSOP creating another more event for $2k or $5k that would be winner takes all.

[/ QUOTE ]Whats the point? A deal would most likely be made anyway unless it was rich pros at the final table.

[BostonMetro]

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Everyone was simply playing to move up in the cash.

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Yeah, that was really upsetting that the players were using strategies that would allow them to make more money. It made me ill.

[ace_in_the_hole]

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Did it seem like the 12 million in cash they stacked on the table didn't look all that impressive? I expected it to fill the whole table many feet high.

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I actually thought it looked like ALOT. I was drooling over my keyboard. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[StrikeR300]

This is recockulously absoluticris, why not make a 100k turbo/speed event?