Home Game Tourney of Champions... Good or Bad idea?

[greenbuckets]

I was in a regular home game for a couple of years and each week, on top of the buy-in, we put $5 in the "pickle jar" with a post it note paper clipped onto it with our names. Once the pickle jar reached $500 (usually 4-6 months), anyone who had a name in the jar would be invited to a large tournament to play for the money. Each $5 got you 100 chips. This prevented the "occasional" player from playing once and then winning the big tourney. The more you played at the weekly games, the more chips you started with. It worked well for the two years I was playing in the game.