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That looks really good to me. If it all adds up, I suggest you email the TD with the suggestion. It can't hurt to try.

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i don't believe 660 places should get that paid. thats redicioulus. at the most, only the top 100 should get paid. then they can have a ginormous first place prize. i can just imagin someone braggin "hey dude, i came in 660th in the world series of poker", damn you must be g00t.

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I sent the proposed payout schedule and reasoning to sharla@pokerpages.com. Hopefully she'll pass it on to Nolan as requested.

If anyone knows Nolan's e-mail please send it to him or post it. If anyone knows Nolan start giving him crap immediately. As I said to Sharla, I wouldn't be surpirsed if the final table recipient of that $20 bill didn't burn it right in front of the cameras.

Matt

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I will if anyone knows the e-mail.

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i don't believe 660 places should get that paid. thats redicioulus. at the most, only the top 100 should get paid. then they can have a ginormous first place prize. i can just imagin someone braggin "hey dude, i came in 660th in the world series of poker", damn you must be g00t.

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Clearly a horrid suggestion. Coming in top 10% in any tourney is worthy of money. Coming in 660th is great in a field of 6600.
~Justin

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Why not come up with a pay per view marketing event broken into a bunch of segments before it comes out on ESPN

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Pretty good structure. Good job. Hopefully they take it.

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The winner of a tournament with over $60 million in the prize pool gets around $7.5 million? Seems like that's kind of low. Greg got $5 million last year and there was between $20 million and $25 million in the prize pool. The prize pool nearly triples but the winner only gets 50% more? Ok I guess but it doesn't seem right somehow.

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Being able to say they created 9 millionnaires is a good one. Of course that is only true if all nine are non-professional-gambler Canadians.

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Wrong -- if the tournament is won by a resident of Canada, tax will be paid to the IRS. It's only residents of the following countries that would not have tax withheld from their prize:

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

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Howard Greenbaum (Harrahs director of poker operations) explained his rationale for the prize structure in an interview linked to in this thread.