pkr.com – Qualifying Rounds in Major Tournaments
Almost any sport or pastime involving tournaments usually has some sort of qualifying rounds involved before the main tournament gets underway. The reason for this is of course to weed out the weaker opponents before the real action starts and is used successfully in many sports.
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As we all know, poker is not the same as most sports, but there are certainly problems I feel, with fields being flooded with weak players, the main event at the WSOP springs to mind.
In this instance you can even get weaker players winning the event simply because they get an extremely lucky run. Jamie Gold in my opinion, falls into this category.
As the number of people entering the World series has grown over the years, so has the prize money, but the chance of a professional poker playing winning the main event, has diminished.
With such huge fields, every player needs to not get seriously unlucky at some point during the proceedings if they are going to win. Mike Matusow at this years main event is an example of a player who never seemed to put a foot wrong, but one moment of extreme bad luck finished his tournament. The longer these tournaments go on the more chance there is of somthing like that happening.
As much as I would like to say that qualifying rounds are the way forward, I can’t quite bring myself to believe that. I think it would alleviate the problem somewhat, but it would take somthing away from the poker world too.
Poker is the only game where anyone from anywhere, can sit down and play in the world championship and have a chance at the title. This is part of the magic attached to events such as the World series I think.
So I cannot say with confidence that it would be a good thing for poker to have qualifying rounds, but perhaps there is another fairer way forward. The tournament which determines the worlds best, after all, should not be largely filled with players who have little understanding of the game.
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