Not this coming year. The 2025 champ should start with a 10x stack in 2026.
This would make the TV coverage much better
GreatWhiteFishI think this is a terrible idea for most of the reasons others have said. Keep the Main Event as it is.That said, I would like to see the WSOP add some quirky meta tournaments. Maybe a tournament where there are no rebuys, but a player can buy multiple times the starting stack when buying in. So let's say the tournament is a $3000 buy in tournament. A player can enter for $12,
I had a similar idea that I think could work well as a WSOP side event.
My idea was a tournament that allows you to late register with an average stack, so that you start with more chips as players are eliminated and the average stack increases. The caveat is that the buy-in amount increases as the average stack increases.
This would allow players from drastically different buy-in levels to all compete in the same tournament. The early levels could be looked at sort of like a satellite for a higher buy-in event.
So imagine the buy-in starts at $100 for 10,000 chips. Eventually as the blinds go up and the chip average hits 100,000 you would have to pay $1,000. Maybe registration would end with a max late reg being equivalent to $10,000 for a 1,000,000 average stack. There could also be intermediate amounts so for example the tournament starts as a $100 buy in, then goes up to $200, $500, $1,000, $2,000, $5,000 with a final buy in level of $10,000, with the starting stack increasing every time the buy in amount increases.
I think this would be cool for recreational players and pros alike. A total novice could spend $100 at the start of the tournament, and be able to say they played in the same tournament as top pros.
For the pros you could register late at a higher buy in amount for the opportunity to play with an average stack against a field that includes a bunch of low stakes players that ran up big stacks.
Seems like it could be a fun novel format....
