The Poker Mag

This aspect of poker is relatively new to the game as far as I know, and in my local game, has become an almost weekly occurence. Players who are left in the latter stages of the game will often decide to split the money and end the game without having to play heads up at all. To my way of thinking, I can agree that they are entitled to split the prize money if they please, but they should play on regardless, in keeping with the spirit of the game.

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The game of poker is about surviving and battling away long enough to eventually win all the chps in play, and until that has been done, no player has emerged the victor. I believe that if any player wants to be able to claim to have won a tournament, they need to have the skill to go on and win the heads up battle too.
My suspicion is that there are too many players out there who are very weak at playing heads up, and so they simply want to split the money and end the game with two players left, still being able to claim that they both won the tournament. In actual fact they didn’t, they both came second, because neither had the courage to fight for the outright victory.

If points are beig awarded in a league situation too, it would be very unfair indeed for both players to receive points for 1st place. Because in actual fact, neither of them have the strategy, or the inclination, to play heads up poker and rightfully claim those points by winning. I think that in this situation, both players should be awarded the points for second place. If you happen to be one of those type of players who likes to stop the game and not have to play heads up, then that’s your choice. Personally though, I feel these players are far less worthy winners than those players who can switch styles to play heads up, get stuck into a duel with their opponent, and ultimately, finish the job.