Tourney Hybrid Cash Tourney (1 Viewer)

[QuiQuog]

I'm not sure if people have tried this or not, but I was thinking of a tourney structure that pays out like a cash game. The idea is that players buy in the tourney like any other game, say $20. Except chips are cash value, maybe it would be easiest to use cash chips. It would play like a regular tourney with increasing blinds and rebuys, I suppose you could do bounty and other options if you wish, but ends when there are x numbers of players left, with the winners being rewarded with the cash value of the chips they end with.

So if you have 10 players, the game might end after the 4th place busts out. The remaining three cash in their chips for face value. It would be like tourney with a "scheduled" end point and the safety of a loss cap, but also like a cash game where players winnings could be very large, very small or nothing. Almost like a winner take all tourney, except different.

I brought this up on the other board, but it's buried in an unrelated thread. I'm bringing it out here to get some more thoughts on it.

 

[detroitdad]

Why not just play a cash game?

Me personally, I don't think I want to buy "cash game value chips" with increasing blinds.

 

[QuiQuog]

Why not just play a cash game?

Me personally, I don't think I want to buy "cash game value chips" with increasing blinds.

So do you think you would play your tournament buy-in differently if the chips were labeled with a dollar sign?
As for the why, that's kind of the point. How would game dynamics change in a tourney like this? Still the same buy-in as your regular tourney, but with a different ending.

 

[catalyzeme]

This is just a tournament with a forced chop, it's not a cash game in any way. Could be fun though.

 

[detroitdad]

Basically you want to have a tourney, but change the way its paid out? Or is there more to it that I'm missing?

 

[QuiQuog]

Basically you want to have a tourney, but change the way its paid out? Or is there more to it that I'm missing?

In a nutshell, yes. Would you still not like playing with increasing blinds if you looked at it like that?

It's more a question of how the game dynamics would change. I'm wondering how people's play would change if they knew that their placement in the winners circle didn't dictate their winnings. If you were getting short stacked but felt like you would get shafted if 4th place goes busto before you, would you make a move to increasing your winnings at the risk of getting less? Would you just be pissed off if if you finished in the money, but didn't even get your buy in back?

Maybe it's for people who want to add moe gamble to their gambling. It could end up totally lopsided, with one person getting most of the money, or it could be fairly close from big on down to small stack, so it's not exactly a chop.

 

[detroitdad]

In a nutshell, yes. Would you still not like playing with increasing blinds if you looked at it like that?

It's more a question of how the game dynamics would change. I'm wondering how people's play would change if they knew that their placement in the winners circle didn't dictate their winnings. If you were getting short stacked but felt like you would get shafted if 4th place goes busto before you, would you make a move to increasing your winnings at the risk of getting less? Would you just be pissed off if if you finished in the money, but didn't even get your buy in back?

Maybe it's for people who want to add moe gamble to their gambling. It could end up totally lopsided, with one person getting most of the money, or it could be fairly close from big on down to small stack, so it's not exactly a chop.

I probably wouldn't be interested in playing. In all honestly I'm not a big tourney fan. I play tourney's once a month and that is enough for me. I like cash games for two primary reasons. Blinds stay the same and there isn't a running clock.

Now, if we kept it at a fairly low buy in, and made it out to be some kind of Poker/Party. Then maybe I'd try it once. Over all, if I'm playing a cash game, I'd like to keep it as a cash game.

lol, after last weekend. Our cash games don't need any "extra" gambling. Crazy times............

If you do host something like this I'd definitely be interested in hearing how it worked out, and what the other participants thought of it.

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