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Looking to see what the best way to share percentages of payouts for my league and any input would be greatly appreciated.

Right now this is how i have it set up.

1-10 players - pays 3 - 50% / 30% / 20%
11-15 players - pays 4 - 45% / 25% / 18% / 12%
16-20 players - pays 5 - 40% / 23% / 16% / 12% / 9%

any thoughts?
 
I just do a single table and we will have 8-10 players. We currently do the setup below but am worried it is going to discourage the majority who never win. We may change it up next season to skew a little farther away from the winner.

1 buy-in towards season prize
3rd: 1 buy-in (~8%)
2nd: 2x buy-in (~17%)
1st: Remainder (~67%)
 
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Looking to see what the best way to share percentages of payouts for my league and any input would be greatly appreciated.

Right now this is how i have it set up.

1-10 players - pays 3 - 50% / 30% / 20%
11-15 players - pays 4 - 45% / 25% / 18% / 12%
16-20 players - pays 5 - 40% / 23% / 16% / 12% / 9%

any thoughts?
That payout scheme looks really good and would work well with electronic payments, but may be cumbersome paying out cash. Say you get 18 people for a $40 tourney...your prizes are

$288
$165.60
$115.20
$86.40
$64.80
 
That payout scheme looks really good and would work well with electronic payments, but may be cumbersome paying out cash. Say you get 18 people for a $40 tourney...your prizes are

$288
$165.60
$115.20
$86.40
$64.80

I've got an excel sheet that rounds to nearest 5 or nearest 10 (depending on what you tell it do), rounding up from top down to address that issue. Used to use BlindsValet which does rounds to the 5s as well.
 
I do this:
Up to 15 players / buy ins:
1st 50%
2nd 30%
3rd 20%

16 players or more buy ins up to 25
1st 40%
2nd 30%
3rd 20%
4th 10%

If above 25 buy ins I ask the group but I can't remember the last time thay happened at my game.

I average 12 to 16 players and allow rebuys for the first two hours. So a 12 person tournament often follows the 2nd option due to rebuys going over the 15 buy in status.
 
That payout scheme looks really good and would work well with electronic payments, but may be cumbersome paying out cash. Say you get 18 people for a $40 tourney...your prizes are

$288
$165.60
$115.20
$86.40
$64.80

yea we would round it out. so if that's the case it would be

285
165
115
90
65
 
I do this:
Up to 15 players / buy ins:
1st 50%
2nd 30%
3rd 20%

16 players or more buy ins up to 25
1st 40%
2nd 30%
3rd 20%
4th 10%

If above 25 buy ins I ask the group but I can't remember the last time thay happened at my game.

yea for our rebuy tourneys we will get more rebuys than initial buyin's lol. it gets crazy.
 
yea for our rebuy tourneys we will get more rebuys than initial buyin's lol. it gets crazy.
That is also a great way to add more payouts for a smaller player pool. "Hey only 10 players but we have 6 rebuys" So we will pay the top 4. Encourages people to rebuy also. Player friendly pay structure in my opinion.
 
how about this?

3 payouts - 50 / 30 / 20
4 payouts - 40 / 30 / 20 / 10
5 payouts - 40 / 30 / 15 / 10 / 5

thoughts?
 
It's funny how groups differ like that (depends on the structure too). My group generally has half the total number of buy-ins in rebuys.

Same here, but we limit to 1 rebuy per person. We have played a low stakes friendly cash games for years. .25/.25, where several players will come straight from the casino playing 2/4. We will often have players rebuying 4+ times in our cash game. We started playing more tournaments to equalize the donks and keep them in control. Even though last week one of them had pushed twice and lost and was out within the first 20min. Play stabilized after that.
 
Same here, but we limit to 1 rebuy per person. We have played a low stakes friendly cash games. .25/.25, where several players will come straight from the casino playing 2/4. We will often have players rebuying 4+ times in our cash game. We started playing more tournaments to equalize the donks and keep them in control. Even though last week one of them had pushed twice and lost and was out within the first 20min. Play stabilized after that.
Our crews sound very similar :)
 
I use the Tournament Director software to run my tournaments, and I've always just used its default payout percentages. Those are:

1-6 players: 70/30
7-9 players: 50/30/20
10-18 players: 46/27/17/10
19-27 players: 42/25/15/10/8

They seem a bit awkward when written out like that, but when you're using software (Excel or tourney director or whatever) and rounding the payouts it works out pretty well. Ultimately it's just personal preference. Also worth noting that my house rule (which is also the TD rule by default) is that rebuys do not count as additional entries to increase the number of places paid. If I have 12 players and 8 rebuys, we're still just paying 4 places.

Some people like flatter payouts. I don't worry about that too much because the main jump is from 1st to 2nd, and in my league players are allowed to make deals heads-up for the money and can modify the payout if they choose (they have to play it out for the points). Some people also would prefer to pay fewer players, like pay only 3 when we have 10 entries. Again, personal preference. But 10 is the point at which we go from 1 table to 2 because I hate 10-handed poker, so for me it's a logical separation point.
 
I use the Tournament Director software to run my tournaments, and I've always just used its default payout percentages. Those are:

1-6 players: 70/30
7-9 players: 50/30/20
10-18 players: 46/27/17/10
19-27 players: 42/25/15/10/8

They seem a bit awkward when written out like that, but when you're using software (Excel or tourney director or whatever) and rounding the payouts it works out pretty well. Ultimately it's just personal preference. Also worth noting that my house rule (which is also the TD rule by default) is that rebuys do not count as additional entries to increase the number of places paid. If I have 12 players and 8 rebuys, we're still just paying 4 places.

Some people like flatter payouts. I don't worry about that too much because the main jump is from 1st to 2nd, and in my league players are allowed to make deals heads-up for the money and can modify the payout if they choose (they have to play it out for the points). Some people also would prefer to pay fewer players, like pay only 3 when we have 10 entries. Again, personal preference. But 10 is the point at which we go from 1 table to 2 because I hate 10-handed poker, so for me it's a logical separation point.

yea i use the tournament director as well. love that software. i also pay based on players not buyin's as well. if we get a single table it pays 3, 11-15 it pays 4 and 16-20 it pays 5 regardless of the amount of buyins. we also do an add on option at the end of the 4th round which every person chooses to get lol.
 
yea i use the tournament director as well. love that software. i also pay based on players not buyin's as well. if we get a single table it pays 3, 11-15 it pays 4 and 16-20 it pays 5 regardless of the amount of buyins. we also do an add on option at the end of the 4th round which every person chooses to get lol.

You are the only guy I know who has a 12 player $20 buy-in tourney with a $1800 prize pool :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
You are the only guy I know who has a 12 player $20 buy-in tourney with a $1800 prize pool :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

lol but its true! We r degenerates! Haha

and this years league starts this Saturday and even have bonus points for rebuys n addons haha. 0.5 points for each rebuy and 0.5 points for addons. Gunna be some big pots
 
That payout scheme looks really good and would work well with electronic payments, but may be cumbersome paying out cash. Say you get 18 people for a $40 tourney...your prizes are

$288
$165.60
$115.20
$86.40
$64.80
Real poker hosts use software that does this automatically :whistle: :whistling:
 
Real poker hosts use software that does this automatically :whistle: :whistling:

i got change to make it work :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

but looks like this is how im gunna run it after talking to a few people.

1-10 players - 50% / 30% / 20%
11-15 players - 45% / 27% / 18% / 10%
16-20 players - 42% / 25% / 15% / 10% / 8%
 
I pay 50%/25%/15%/10% for up to 20 players. I realized how op heavy this was, and included it on my player survey to change to 45% / 27% / 18% / 10% and they voted almost 80% to keep it the way it is!
 

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