I'm curious about a particular type of progressive ace pot which I've come across at a few courses around here but is something I can't say I've seen or heard of anywhere else.
It's a simple progressive pot. Each week there are no aces, the pot carries over in full to the next week. However, to buy into the ace pot, you have to pay for every week of carry over that you haven't already paid before. So if you've played (and paid) every week since the last time it was hit, it's just $1 to buy in each week. But if you're playing for the first time in week 8 of the ace pot, the cost to buy in is $8. If it's week 15, it is $15. And so on.
On the one hand, I can see it as discouraging ace pot scavengers from jumping in once it gets big then bailing once it's hit. On the other, if the pot grows for too long, it discourages new or occasional players from coming out at all and can stagnate numbers.
So I guess my question is two-fold...is this a common practice elsewhere and am I wrong to be bothered by it as someone who is only an occasional league player due to the nature of my schedule? What do others think?
It's a simple progressive pot. Each week there are no aces, the pot carries over in full to the next week. However, to buy into the ace pot, you have to pay for every week of carry over that you haven't already paid before. So if you've played (and paid) every week since the last time it was hit, it's just $1 to buy in each week. But if you're playing for the first time in week 8 of the ace pot, the cost to buy in is $8. If it's week 15, it is $15. And so on.
On the one hand, I can see it as discouraging ace pot scavengers from jumping in once it gets big then bailing once it's hit. On the other, if the pot grows for too long, it discourages new or occasional players from coming out at all and can stagnate numbers.
So I guess my question is two-fold...is this a common practice elsewhere and am I wrong to be bothered by it as someone who is only an occasional league player due to the nature of my schedule? What do others think?