New tournament formats

[Bart(UK)]

Just seen another new tournament format announced by WPT National series, believed to have originated from Oz (either the Oceanic region or the wonderful wizard of, not sure which). Accumulator tournament where you basically have 3 day 1's and can enter as many as you like with all chips from each of your days going through to day 2. Might have been around a while, but first time I've seen one of the big brands using it. Thoughts anyone? Think you'll all know my stance already. I'm accepting that poker needs to continue evolving and innovating to grow and bring more people in, but give me an old fashioned level playing field freezeout any day. Don't advertise it as a £200 tournament when no-one in their right mind would play a single day 1 grossly disadvantaging themselves in an already small edge situation, except perhaps for a freerolling or micro sats player looking for a complete run like god bink (and don't you just hate it when people do that :p ) Lets be honest it's a £600 triple chance, albeit spread across 3 different table draws (a variance fighting +ve) with the -ve of increased hotel expenses at a time when the effective cost of attending live events outweighs the potential value. If after grinding hard for 10+ hours I manage to outplay or bust a player, maybe bust them twice, don't really want to see them still in the tourney having shoved any 2 every hand and amassing a huge 3rd stack. It's like giving Man United unlimited added time at the end of a game until they score (thank god that never happens ;) ) or allowing a footballer with 2 red cards for dangerous play another chance because "he's a nice boy really and it's so out of character". Game of paper, scissors, stone anyone? Damn lost, best of 3? Oh wait lost 1-2, best of 5? best of 7? best of 9? Thoughts genuinely welcomed from less old fashioned, less set in ways, less synical old gits than myself Disclaimer: don't be fooled by the tone of this post, the poor attempt at humour is just a way of getting discussion started ;) genuinely interested in understanding the different dynamics of these new age formats.

[luckboxnemo]

Re: New tournament formats This will no doubt be aimed at regs whom can afford to re enter and buy in on different days meaning players with more bankroll will have more chips and more bullets to fire and have a greater edge over players whom have just one shot at the cherry ,, it means more chance it being any overlay in any gtd tourny ,, there just covering their backs so they dont lose ,, great concept but hardly a level playing field for all