Does Full Tilt know something we dont?

[PITTM]

the banner on the right says "win the wsop and get an additional TEN MILLION". when i saw the prize structure before i remember it being 7.41mil or so. however, it seems like it would be pretty easy to bump it to 10 mil. so whats the deal here?

rj

[Freudian]

Don't they have a promotion that if you win your seat at Full Tilt and then go on to win the WSOP, they will give you $10M?

They are probably insured for it, and the promotional value is good.

[SteamTrain]

they will pay an extra 10 mllion to the winner if he qualified through full tilt

[PITTM]

sweet mother of mercy. that would be cool if it happened, but it wont, bummer.

rj

[KingMarc]

They have 16 people qualified so far, and will qualify another 30 in their 30 seat guaranteed. That's under 50 people, with a field of 6600. They don't have much to worry about.

[bkholdem]

do they have regular qualifiers like steps or whatever?

[Jurollo]

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They have 16 people qualified so far, and will qualify another 30 in their 30 seat guaranteed. That's under 50 people, with a field of 6600. They don't have much to worry about.

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They dont have much to worry about even if someone won. All they do is take out an insurance policy, they pay a tiny fraction no matter what, if it hits then the company they took the policy with pays.
~Justin

[MicroBob]

I agree that they are probably insured for it.

This is probably similar to some of the common promotions in minor-league baseball or other sports.
Some contestant's name is drawn and if the 4th batter that specific inning hits a grand-slam...or if that night's pitcher throws a no-hitter...or whatever then they win a million dollars.


I do agree that it would be pretty nifty if someone from full-tilt pulled it off and got the extra $10-mil.


Did somebody say, "Generous final-table deal??"
If it gets down to two players you could give the other guy the ENTIRE 1st place prize and just agree to take 2nd place money (4-million I think) if he agrees to let you have the bracelet.
you go from a MAYBE 7.4-million to a DEFINITE 14-million just like that.

[IggyWH]

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Did somebody say, "Generous final-table deal??"
If it gets down to two players you could give the other guy the ENTIRE 1st place prize and just agree to take 2nd place money (4-million I think) if he agrees to let you have the bracelet.
you go from a MAYBE 7.4-million to a DEFINITE 14-million just like that.

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That would be one sweet deal but I'm sure the people over at FT have a clause in the contract about chopping.

[hicherbie]

theyre trying to pokerstars themselves. im sure a part of this deal is that you have to be a FT monkey for advertisements...so its not a total 10M loss for them either.