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Multi Table Tournament Decision
Ryan wrote
at 10:20 AM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
I just finished table reshuffling and the prize structure. It works well for GPokr but I've bumped into an interesting decision with kdice. In gpokr, tables can be reshuffled easily because hands are relatively short. In kdice reshuffling requires you to wait until other players are done. So there are three choices here:

1) You play the same people until a table in the tournament can be removed. At this point your table gets broken up and spread over the other tables. In this scenario you need to wait for your table to finish for the next game and when there's a reshuffle you need wait for another table to finish.

2) Games are synchronized. You don't start the next game until all games have finished. At that point tables are reshuffled at random. The benefit here is random players every round but longer waits.

3) Start new games as people are knocked out of current games. This is the quickest way to start new games but it creates a strange effect of winners playing winners and losers playing losers - or in other words big points on one table and none on another.

Thoughts?

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Thraxle wrote
at 7:10 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
Fiero and CS........please don't ruin a perfectly good thread by starting a pissing contest. It would be bad form.....

As for the end game possibilities, I can't think of a good way to avoid the "rollout method" for the last turn if there is to be a cap on game length. I would suggest NOT placing a cap on game length and simply making sure all boards used in the MTT are highly connected with no bridges or isolated peninsulas. This will cut down on game length enough to avoid any 25 or 30 round games.
Skyler wrote
at 7:35 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
the "thing" you win, will it come beside ur trophies ?
ChristianSoldier wrote
at 7:36 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
Well my furry friend there is a solution after all:

End the game with a 33-50% chance after any given round past a threshold. Keep the chance a secret for even more funtastic pleasure.
dasfury wrote
at 8:28 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
I would have to say that i oppose a limit on rounds.
Ryan wrote
at 9:33 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
- Round limits don't make sense.
- The winner of tournaments won't get trophies - top finishes in the touranment divide up the buy-in points. If the buy-in is 500 and there are 49 people the 25k pot will be divided up between the top 7 as follows:
1st: 35% or 8.75k
2nd: 21%
3rd: 15%
4th: 11%
5th: 8%
6th: 6%
7th: 4%

If there are less players less people get paid out. For example if there are only 21 players (3 tables) the top three split the pot. The payouts follow holdem poker payouts.

It's also likely there will be bonuses for tournaments. For example I may add a 25k bonus to the above tournament.

ChristianSoldier wrote
at 9:53 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
"- Round limits don't make sense. "

Somehow this doesn't surprise me.
talbotlives wrote
at 11:58 PM, Tuesday September 9, 2008 EDT
If there are no trophies, what if you added something to the leaderboard and stats which counted your tournament wins (something like the kills counter now).

not sure how you'd address getting second though- guess its all or nothing in that paradigm


Also, in case it still matters, my vote's for option #2 and unlimited games (or really high limits like 40 rounds).

I wonder how long it will take the first pga / troll pair of people hold up the whole tournament on purpose...
jurgen wrote
at 9:32 AM, Wednesday September 10, 2008 EDT
all the good stuff always happens when I am not able to check the kdice forum but I would defenitely prefer choice #2 without #rounds limits.



MadHat_Sam wrote
at 10:47 AM, Wednesday September 10, 2008 EDT
#2, if you want to play a tournament you better be willing to spend the time to see it through. Exciting changes.
Ryan wrote
at 11:00 AM, Wednesday September 10, 2008 EDT
No trophies, but they'll be stats of some sort. It will probably show your tournament history for the month similar to your daily history.

Once I do achievements there will probably be tourny achiements... like placing 1st in a tourny.


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