Full Tilt Down Anyone?

MarcoGD · Apr 23,2009, 01:07 PM

I noticed it was really slow last night while I was playing. They're back up now, I'm assuming?

DennisG · Apr 23,2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by moose

What are you talking about. That is probably a best case situation for you. The buyins from the eliminated players are distributed according to chipstacks so you are going to be paid as if you got 4th place money in a tourney paying out 110 places. Unless you thought you were going to win the tournament you are probably at your maximum chip equity right now and from your post it sounds like you are close to the bubble anyways so they are not paying out many extra places.

Btw Graham this statement is clearly wrong:

Same thing happened to me last summer on PokerStars, sitting 2 or 3rd in chips in a $50k tourney. I ended up with better than 5th place money with at least 80 players left.

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Beat me to it Moose.

Graham · Apr 23,2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by moose

Btw Graham this statement is clearly wrong:

Same thing happened to me last summer on PokerStars, sitting 2 or 3rd in chips in a $50k tourney. I ended up with better than 5th place money with at least 80 players left.

What was wrong... it said before bubble play they divide evenly and after bubble play the divisions are based on chip counts. At least thats how I read it... am I wrong?

Rockwood · Apr 23,2009, 07:13 PM

graham hate to hijak thread, but can u pls assist me in my $31 transfer?

moose · Apr 23,2009, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Graham

What was wrong... it said before bubble play they divide evenly and after bubble play the divisions are based on chip counts. At least thats how I read it... am I wrong?

yep you are wrong. It has nothing to do with the bubble. You said the short stacks and the chip leaders get the same money. Wrong. They get their buyin back and the money from the eliminated players gets divvied up based on chip stack. So big stacks get more and small stacks will get almost nothing.

The only difference before or after the bubble makes is that if the tourney is cancelled before the bubble, everyone still alive gets at least their buyin back. Otherwise if it was just based on chip stacks, someone with say 10 chips would get almost nothing. Before the bubble breaks that person would get at least their buyin back and then any additional monies would be based on chip stack. The only way everyone would get exactly their buyin back would be if not a single person had been eliminated.