2004 payouts

[PokerFox]

Total Prize Pool $24,214,400

225 will make the money.

1st $5,000,000
2nd $3,500,000
3rd $2,500,000
4th $1,500,000
5th $1,100,000
6th $800,000
7th $675,000
8th $575,000
9th $470,000
10th - 12th $373,000
13th - 15th $275,000
16th - 18th $175,000
19th - 26th $120,000
27th - 36th $80,000
37th - 45th $60,000
46th - 54th $45,000
55th - 81st $25,000
82nd - 108th $20,000
109th - 180th $15,000
181st - 225th $10,000

[Dynasty]

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1st $5,000,000

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That's less than I thought it would be.

[jayadd]

1st

tourney pay out structures need a change especially for large tourneys like this one. for you to play for 5 days just to break even is ridiculous. take the 181-235 and spread that money around to make it worth while. When they say congrats you all have made the money the first person out should get 20k.

2nd

Its 2600 X $9400= which should come out to be 6.11 million at 25%
for 5 million its like 20.5 %

[NoTalent]

I agree, that's a ton of work to just break even...

[Elvis]

A lot of the players (more than 50 %?) qualified through a satellite, and for them, finishing in 181st-235th is not "breaking even". They never had the $10,000 entrance fee in their pocket, so walking away with $10,000 is probably considered quite good by those players.

Will they play in hand-for-hand mode with 236 players left? That could take quite some time... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Jonas

[BlackAces]

Is this the first time the bottom of the money has been just $10K? I seem to remember from past tournaments that the bottom has always been $15K.

Besides, all those $600 and $180 qualifiers from Stars sure aren't complaining...