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#411 – You’re Uncle Tilty – Winning Entry of Major General
Full Tilt allowed me to give a third prize for the contest and I decided to award it to Major General. His entry did not have the detail or imagination of SchaefPerro’s Offbeat Poker Series or the mission-extension of morningjames’s Pro Lobby. But it was the smartest and most logical alteration of operations out of all the entries.
Major General proposed the simple idea of breaking tournament tables in numerical order, something I can’t for the life of me figure out why Full Tilt has never done. As much as I enjoyed SchaefPerro’s entry about developing new tournaments, the core of what online poker should do is provide a real poker experience, better than live poker when the technology allows. The order of breaking tables is something that can signfiicantly affect poker strategy and major live tournaments break tables in an order that’s either disclosed or physically obvious. There’s no reason online poker shouldn’t do the same.
Here is Major General’s entry:
I would make the tables break in numerical order, playing down to table one. I love that we are randomly assigned a table at the onset of an event, but I dislike when the table breaks seemingly randomly, so that we never know how long we will be playing at a specific table. If you know you will be there awhile, you may wish to play a loose style early to advertise certain tendencies before changing gears and tightening up later. It doesn’t always pay to advertise knowing that the table may break at any minute. It also kills me when there is one or more bountied players at the table and once s/he gets short-stacked, the table is broken and somebody else gets to collect the bounty by collecting that last chip. Redrawing at predefined stages is fine with me if the players are notified in advance, but the random breaking of tables is a flaw at the site that I would like to see fixed.
-Major General
