Poker Pro Daniel Negreanu Considers Forgoing Re-Entries In 2020 Poker TournamentsSix-Time WSOP Bracelet Winner Feels Re-Entries Shouldn't Be The Standard In Tournaments |
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Six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and newly crowned GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu is considering playing his entire 2020 tournament schedule without re-entering an event. Not even once.
The Canadian pro tweeted Monday that even though this would hurt his bottom line, he wants to do his part to help reduce the number of re-entries in every field.
I’m also considering playing all of 2020 with no reentry.
That means I won’t cash as often.
Won’t make as many final tables, but at least I won’t be taking part in something I don’t thing should exist, or at least be the norm.— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 9, 2019
Re-entries have become an integral part of the tournament poker world. With guaranteed prize pools becoming the standard over the last several years, organizers have gradually loosened its re-entry regulations.
When the poker boom was first getting started, outside of a select few events, the tournaments were freezeouts where players were only allowed a single entry. When that player lost their chips, they were out and had no chance at winning the tournament.
Now, most major and mid-major events outside of the World Series of Poker allow players to re-enter as many times as they want in order to sustain the huge prize pools and first-place payouts that players have become accustomed to.
In a subsequent tweet, Negreanu acknowledged that in the past, he would re-enter (or rebuy in the case of early days of the poker boom) as many times as he wanted to, but now feels guilty about hurting the experience of amateurs in the process.
When I would use the rules to my advantage, and play crazy in the early levels of a rebuy event, I could see how it often hurt the amateurs experience. Sometimes they even told me.
I wasn’t doing anything wrong, but it started to feel that way.— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 9, 2019
Other prominent names in the poker world agreed with his sentiment that re-entry is bad for the game in the long run.
One of the reasons I’ve pretty much stopped playing any events is this. Kudos
— Greg Merson (@GregMerson) December 10, 2019
Although the idea likely wouldn’t work because of the incentives for players to defect, three-time bracelet winner Frank Kassela even tossed out the idea of boycotting re-entry events.
We should just all ban together on this one. No re-entry in any event in 2020 let’s call it “Perfect Vision Poker for 2020”
— Frank Kassela (@fkassela) December 9, 2019
Negreanu’s tweet comes at one of the busiest times of the Las Vegas tournament schedule with four major series running this month.
One of the biggest tournaments of the year, the $10,000 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic kicks off at the Bellagio next week. It is an unlimited re-entry event along with most other prelim events on the schedule. As is the $5,300 no-limit hold’em Wynn Winter Poker Classic main event and the Card Player Poker Tour main event at Venetian.
The WSOP Circuit main event at Harrah’s features a single re-entry for each starting flight, allowing players to fire a max of four bullets into the $1,700 buy-in.
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