karsus
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Our group has been running a twice monthly hold'em league since the beginning of the year. Our original plan for the 'final table' would be that the top 9 players measured by points earned throughout the year play for the league pot at the end of the year. Points would be used to determine initial chip stack. However; as we are a little more than half way through it is clear that the top 3 players are way ahead of the rest of the pack and my concern is that the chip stacks will be highly unbalanced, discouraging the player base.
One of the ideas we had was to change the format of the final table to have your points grant positional advantage vs a chip stack advantage. This would work with player 9 choosing their spot first, and then in order the other players choose where they want to sit, with the final decision on position being made by the person with the highest point total. Then everyone sits down and starts play with the same starting chips with the #1 ranked player starting as the dealer.
The thought is that there is still a fairly large advantage for being the points leader, but there isn't an out-sized advantage by running up the point total.
I would enjoy hearing your collective wisdom and let me know if you see any significant downfalls by switching to giving positional advantage vs extra chips for the point leaders.
One of the ideas we had was to change the format of the final table to have your points grant positional advantage vs a chip stack advantage. This would work with player 9 choosing their spot first, and then in order the other players choose where they want to sit, with the final decision on position being made by the person with the highest point total. Then everyone sits down and starts play with the same starting chips with the #1 ranked player starting as the dealer.
The thought is that there is still a fairly large advantage for being the points leader, but there isn't an out-sized advantage by running up the point total.
I would enjoy hearing your collective wisdom and let me know if you see any significant downfalls by switching to giving positional advantage vs extra chips for the point leaders.