Re: [ba-poker] multiple rivers

[Andrew Bloch <abloch(deleted the rest)>]

On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 03:34 AM, James Kittock wrote:

> > Now that said, you certainly come up with a structure where every 
> > river is
> > dealt twice or three times or whatever you want. But it would have to 
> > be
> > part of the tournament rules and not just something decided when the
> players
> > felt like doing it.
>
> To clarify, I meant are tournaments ever set up this way?
>
> By analogy, in many sports, the championship is decided by a series of
> games, in part because a single game is too high variance to have a
> meaningful outcome.

Tournaments could be dealt this way, but other than a home tournament 
or two I've never heard of it.  For one thing, you'd have to come up 
with some rules to handle a multiway pot where 2 or more players are 
not all-in.  Second, eliminations are much more difficult.  I suppose 
that might be good early in a home tournament so players aren't as 
likely to bust too early and get bored waiting for others.

I think more tournaments should be like the poker million, where 
players only got half their chips at the start.  I ran a small home 
tournament that way with mostly beginners and it worked pretty well.

Andy