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Cash play tournament at Riviera Cup
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: Cash play tournament at Riviera Cup (mtuhtan)
Date: Monday, 12 April 2010, at 11:05 a.m.
Why will an underdog stand a better chance in this format, than in a regular match-play tournament?
Table-stakes and the "inflection points" of the points structure, would probably increase the complexity to approx. the same level?
I guess it all comes down to the amount of backgammon being played - the more backgammon, the higher the chance of the better player winning! In tournaments that equates to longer matches, more matches, etc. And in this money-play format, it's simply a matter of stack-size vs. a points worth and the number of games played at each level...
The clock-rules have already been commented upon. I'd like to add: Go for 3 or 3,5 minutes per game, instead of a total for each level. If you run out of time, you loose the current stake at play in that particular game (including gammon, if that's still applicable in the game). Then you don't really need to limit the number of games played at each level when making sure that players are keeping a steady pace?
Player matching from level 2: Given the price structure and increasing points value for each level, it could turn out to be very costly to sit out a level for the chip-leader. At least he should be able to rejoin in a level, if someone is knocked out. But I'd propose that you took out the person with the fewest amount of chips instead - either completely out of the tournament (would induce action and would give players close to busting out an incentive to really play rather than trying to ease into the last 8). OR just have the player with the least amount of chips sitting out until someone busts during a level, then have him take that seat for the remainder of the level.
Pairings - the biggest stacks paired with the smallest stacks? Pros and cons. As an alternative you could pair the top half with the button half in stack-size order, or even you could have the chip-lead choose his next opponent (barring those he have already played once, or twice if he has played all remaining players). Then have the 2nd largest stack choose opponent, etc.
The format in general: It's imitating poker, but then again it's just in between the two poker tournament formats we know. It's like a heads-up tournament where you don't play until someone is knocked out! To really make this poker-like, you should take it all the way to a chouette tournament format, playing min. 3 max. 4/5 chouettes - emulating poker tables - with increasing levels and a chouettes being broken up and reseated when players are knocked out. You could use poker tournament software for running this, with no adjustments.
Actually, you could blend poker and chouettes seamlessly in a combo tournament, playing alternating games each level. I have discussed such a format with a poker-club owner here in Denmark, but our current law on poker tournaments for money, prohibit the game to be combined with backgammon.
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