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TightEnd:
is interesting.

Released last night, as follows

""When Dusk Till Dawn first opened, we had a "no deals policy" for all of our tournaments, however, over time, this lapsed. We have created many big prizepools for our players, mainly through taking risks with guaranteeing the prize pool ourselves, but the most important and exciting part of the tournament - the final table, has sometimes been an anti-climax to the event, with disruptions in play while deals are trying to be negotiated, not only between the players at the final table, but with players who have taken stakes in a particular player, a trend which we have seen growing. On occasions, we have seen lesser experienced players, in particular, those players that have qualified through our satellites, not always receiving fair equity and situations have arisen where deal negotiations have created some animosity, especially when one player has refused to agree to a deal that the majority of players want to do. These are the primary reasons, however, we are also keen supporters of poker being recognised as a "sport", and part of promoting and supporting this concept is that there is an outright winner of a poker tournament. Of course, there can be a significant element of luck in winning a poker tournament, but we believe that the ability to negotiate deals should have no influence on how the prize pool is distributed. We believe this is in the best interests of poker players who choose to play tournaments at Dusk Till Dawn.""

Des:
I would say APAT was five years ahead of the market on this. Deals kill a final IMO.

TightEnd:

--- Quote from: Des on February 06, 2012, 13:31:45 PM ---
I would say APAT was five years ahead of the market on this.

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Why I thought it was interesting to post it on APAT.

WYoung83:
 I can see two sides to the argument. From the players point of view, most people who get to a final like that, the money means somthing. When you start getting £10k + ladders i can see why some want to deal 3 or 4 handed. And the average stack may only be 25 BBs so anyone can win if they get a bit of luck.

from DTD, and Robs POV they put on massive prizepools and take risks of overlays when the weather is bad or competion of other tournys are going on, and Rob came on the live streem last night and was really annoyed with deals because there is a massive anti climax to his tournys, and someone always gets shafted unfairly in a deal           (maybe lack of experiance) and there should be an out right winner.

Personally i think if they all agree, and as long as its fair on everyones chip stack, its their money now so they can do a deal.

Paulie_D:

--- Quote from: WYoung83 on February 06, 2012, 13:43:41 PM ---
Personally i think if they all agree, and as long as its fair on everyones chip stack, its their money now so they can do a deal.

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This...but they are saying that this hasn"t always been the case.

All this will do is make it clear that it"s all to play for...regardless of chipstack...I think it"s a good thing and I applaud DTD for following APAT's lead.  ;D

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