"Official" WSOP Payment Info and other stuff

[Benal]

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if the tournament is won by a resident of Canada, tax will be paid to the IRS

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I believe we can get it back through some kind of paperwork/redtape.

[M.B.E.]

Only to the extent that you have gambling losses in the United States that offset your winnings; see Article XXII of the Canada-USA tax convention.

[slickpoppa]

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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.

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We are not complaining about the flatness of the payout structure. We are complaining about the arbitrary jumps in structure.