**OFFICIAL Stars 100K added**

[Bigdaddydvo]

Table #162. Go get 'em.

[adanthar]

Not in this for the basic reason that 405'th gets $800 while 19'th gets $2400. This payout blows...so make the final table. GL.

[M.B.E.]

Adanthar, that seems like a strange reason for passing up a tournament with negative rake.

The tournament is effectively $553-23 rather than $500+30.

[adanthar]

Not enough overlay/too much time investment when there's sixteen other tournaments today with the same or better numbers that pay out properly.

[Degen]

16? Either you're exaggerating or i'm waaaay out of the loop...

Party 350k, Stars +100k, what other major tournaments are there today?

[adanthar]

Bodog, FT, Paradise, Absolute, Pokerroom, etc. etc. all have relatively big tourneys with overlays today

[gisb0rne]

I don't quite understand how the prize structure makes it a waste of time.

[La Brujita]

I think what you say has a ton of merit. I'm still playing but I'm an action junkie. I really do hate the payout structures.

At least my reason is after a number of second final tables in big online tournaments where I have played extremely well only to get a little bad luck at the end I get basically no payment, it is not commensurate with the performance.

They do it so they can bloat the top payments and I don't think that makes sense.

[other1]

I don't think its terrible. Yes it's weighted towards a huge first prize, but they are still paying > 20%. I'd guess most people didn't buy in directly. I won my seat for $20.. So I have a good chance of cashing for at least $800 on my $20 and an off chance of cashing for $175k. Doesn't seem so bad to me. If I were buying in directly I might not like the structure, but that's why I never buy in to big money tournaments directly.

[Exitonly]

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but that's why I never buy in to big money tournaments directly.

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so you won't be dissapointed when people change the payouts to hurt better players?