It's definitely there or thereabouts, isn't it? I am inclined to attribute independent rediscovery.
Poker has quite a few different ways of eliminating players with some subtle technical differences. It's relevant that multi-table tournaments, unless otherwise specified, don't generally have a fixed relationship between progress (most usually measured by a function of time) and player numbers; days 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d don't really care how many players they have starting or at what rate they eliminate their players, and there is no fixed quota how many players may advance from each day. In practice, practicalities may slightly override this, or at least force the organisers to wing it slightly.
However, there is another poker tournament format - the shoot-out - where each table strictly advances one player to the next round, thus associating progress as a function more of eliminations than as a function of time. Made-for-TV tournaments often have variant formats which are closer to this than to the former. Poker satellite tournaments are effectively shoot-outs where the prize is participation in another tournament. There are all sorts of mutated confections, perhaps the evolutionary consequence of which might be the steps format, which used to have a gloriously complicated chart redirecting players to the appropriate charts until it was generally realised that such things confused more than they enlightened. They looked great, though, in the Gravelly Hill stylee.
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Re: Haut pour la coupe
Date: 2010-07-28 09:55 pm (UTC)Poker has quite a few different ways of eliminating players with some subtle technical differences. It's relevant that multi-table tournaments, unless otherwise specified, don't generally have a fixed relationship between progress (most usually measured by a function of time) and player numbers; days 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d don't really care how many players they have starting or at what rate they eliminate their players, and there is no fixed quota how many players may advance from each day. In practice, practicalities may slightly override this, or at least force the organisers to wing it slightly.
However, there is another poker tournament format - the shoot-out - where each table strictly advances one player to the next round, thus associating progress as a function more of eliminations than as a function of time. Made-for-TV tournaments often have variant formats which are closer to this than to the former. Poker satellite tournaments are effectively shoot-outs where the prize is participation in another tournament. There are all sorts of mutated confections, perhaps the evolutionary consequence of which might be the steps format, which used to have a gloriously complicated chart redirecting players to the appropriate charts until it was generally realised that such things confused more than they enlightened. They looked great, though, in the Gravelly Hill stylee.