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I was reading in Ciaffone &
Ruben's big-bet poker book that PLO players will sometimes deal multiple rivers
and split the pot accordingly in order to reduce variance.
It got me to thinking--why don't
they do this in NLHE tournaments? For that matter, once all the money goes in,
why not deal multiple boards for the rest of the hand (e.g., if all the money
goes in before the flop, deal 2 or more complete boards). After watching WSOP,
WPT, etc., it is amazing to me how often the outcome of a final table is
determined by bad beats. I guess tournaments are inherently variance amplifiers,
so it seems like it would make sense to do something to tone down the variance,
at least at the end.
Has this been experimented with?
Does it screw up the game somehow? Or just slow it down too much?
--j
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