TP Cash League-idea crapshoot

[Talking Poker]

Regarding this... I think you answered your own question in there. Yes, of course as you move up the games get tougher. Think about it like this:

Do you think the average 10/20 NL oplayer will be able to beat 1/2 NL? Of couse he will. Now - do you think the average 1/2 NL player will be able to beat 10/20? This is much, much less likely.

So yeah, while we have people here would are beating the 5/10 NL game, it's not fair to complare their results to someone playing in a .25/.50 NL game. If it was, what would prevent said 5/10 player from moving down in stakes and absolutely crusing the lower limits, in order to win the contest?

The limits need to be normalized somehow. These numbers are up for dabate, but I still like my original suggestion of using some sort of multiplier to normalize the results:

From my experiences, I think these are pretty reasonable guesses, and I think they err in favor of the lower limits, if anything. Like I said, they are open to suggestions though.

It's the hands played thing that I don't know how to address. Certainly we should reward people who play a ton of hands and win (since they will be making the most real life poker money), but there are some people here who play more in an average day than other people play in an average week, and we need to level that playing field a bit as well. Otherwise, the only people with a fair shot of winning money will be the guys who play for a living.