Tourney Charity Tourney Payouts (1 Viewer)

[arch3r]

I am planning on hosting a charity NLHE tourney in my neighborhood ( T10K, 2-3 tables ) and was wondering what you all think is a fair portion of the buy-in that should go to the charity? I was thinking of $100 buy-in with $10 going towards the bounty, $15 for the charity and the rest to the prize pool.

So with 20 people it would come out to....
$300 - charity
$200 - bounties
$1500 - prize pool - pay top 4 ( 50%/25%/15%/10% )

Not sure what is standard. Any suggestions on a better breakdown?

 

[Beakertwang]

The only charity tourney I’ve played was a Toys-4-Tots game, but-in was $50 plus a new toy. It paid 60% to prize pool, 40% to charity, (so basically calmly 50/50 if you include the price of the toy) and paid 5 or 6 places out of 30+.

I’d pay a minimum of 25% to the charity. It is to benefit a charity, after all.

 

[MaxB]

I ran a bunch of charity poker tourneys last year .... always 50% went to charity and 15% of the players got paid

 

[allforcharity]

Yeah, around here it's usually 50% to charity, 50% prizes.

 

[Jonesey07]

Agreed, 50/50 split.

 

[DoubleEagle]

Agreed, 50/50 split.

Same here. Have done a bunch of them over the years. Always 50/50.

 

[toynoob]

I've played in many 50/50 sir

 

[Poker Zombie]

50/50 feels like I'm playing for charity. If the players get more than the charity, then you are playing for the money, and a rake is being given to charity.

Semantics, I know, but playing for a charity shouldn't be a token gesture with the majority going to the players.