While it wasn’t crystal clear exactly how the interested businessmen/rec players were determined, or how they went about picking their pro counterparts, the Triton website explained that potential guests could express their interest in playing to the committee to get their name added to a waiting list, which was shared with the invited players. “I think with the stakes lower, you would see more like 100 businesspeople willing to play.” Still, the designations assigned seemed to be generally accepted by participants in the event. The line between pro and rec players can sometimes be blurred, depending on the individual’s circumstances, and many respected but non-professional players were among the “rec” contingency. The roster was set up so that the invited “recs,” once they had made their £50,000 deposit and were accepted by the committee, could then appoint or “invite” one guest that could then reserve their spot as well. The Set-UpĪccording to the Triton Poker site, a committee determined the status of players as either recreational player/businessman or professional poker player, the former receiving invitations and the latter being referred to as guests of the recreationals. They went with a 50-50 balance of “recreational” and “professional” players to fill out what would eventually be a field of 54 players to create a huge prize pool of £54 million. Tournament operators are always on the lookout for different and better ways of approaching various elements of the game, and the Triton Poker group tried out a new approach to filling the million-dollar seats at Triton London at the beginning of this month. For a detailed look at participants in previous million dollar-plus buy-in events, check out this PokerNews article. From there, some form of lottery for the remaining seats is a common approach, one that leaves the final decisions of who gets to play up to chance. In some past super high rollers, some seats have been reserved for recreational players, the wealthy business types, which is generally enough to entice professional high-roller players from a value standpoint. On the other hand, many players became reluctant to participate after the initial 2012 event, with numbers falling in 2014 and even the 2016 "recreational only" model drawing a smaller field than promised.īill Perkins: “If you’re trying to attract the rec player, it doesn’t feel good when it’s 10% you and 90% pros.” With the traditional rake from the event going to charitable causes, the more players they can get involved, the better. These million-dollar tournaments usually have a set number of seats to be filled, but who actually gets to take those seats has been a thorny question. Besides boasting the largest-ever poker tournament buy-in at £1,050,000 ($1,325,351), the recent Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity event that took place in London earlier this month also introduced an interesting new format for bigger buy-in tournaments regarding arranging the lineup of players who will participate.
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