Re: [ba-poker] multiple rivers

[Michael Hunter <mph(deleted the rest)>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 00:34, James Kittock wrote:
[...]
> 
> 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.
> 

Its important that poker games and tournaments are not conclusive.  It
would really suck if the fish _thought_ they had little chance to win. 
Hope is needed if the game is to flourish.  Its absolutely great that in
the first season of the WPT Mike S. must have called somebody the best
mumble poker player in the world on every episode including several
where mumble was the same on different episodes and the people were
different.  And I'm fairly sure the majority of those lost.  Now thats
something to cheer about.

                        mph