{"id":834,"date":"2015-02-18T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2015-02-18T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:50:52","slug":"filling-in-the-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Filling In the Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The revised payout structure for the WSOP Main Event<\/a> (ensuring at least $1M for every member of the November Nine and paying $15,000 to 300+ places beyond last year\u2019s bubble) left a few holes in the 30 tiers of payouts from the 2014 event. Everything\u2019s subject to change\u2014depending on the number of entrants, of course\u2014but by graphing the payouts provided by the WSOP and extrapolating from previous years\u2019 payout levels, this is our educated guess as to what the rest of the structure would look like (based, as theirs were, on the number of entries in the 2015 Main Event and a $62,825,752 prize pool).<\/p>\n

Payouts for 2015 in the chart below in bold are numbers from the \u00a0WSOP\u2019s news release about the payout modifications<\/a>. Total payout comes to $6 off of last year\u2019s prize pool (that\u2019s just 0.000009% off target and about the price of a cup of coffee at the Rio)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Payout Tier<\/strong><\/td>\nPlaces<\/strong><\/td>\n# of Payouts in Tier<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 Estimated Payout\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n2014 Actual Payout<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$8,000,000<\/strong><\/td>\n$10,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$4,663,527<\/strong><\/td>\n$5,417,911<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$3,500,000<\/strong><\/td>\n$3,807,753<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$2,750,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$2,849,763<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$2,000,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$2,143,794<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$1,500,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$1,622,471<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$1,250,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$1,236,084<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$1,100,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$947,172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n$1,000,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$730,725<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n10-12<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n$550,000\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n$565,193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n13-15<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n$434,176<\/td>\n$441,940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n16-18<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n$344,971<\/td>\n$347,521<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n19-27<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$275,875<\/td>\n\u00a0$286,900<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n28-36<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$222,053<\/td>\n\u00a0$230,487<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n37-45<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$167,999<\/td>\n\u00a0$186,388<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n46-54<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$142,500<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0$152,025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n55-63<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$116,950<\/td>\n\u00a0$124,447<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n64-72<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$96,605<\/td>\n\u00a0$103,025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n73-81<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$80,318<\/td>\n\u00a0$85,812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n82-90<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$67,211<\/td>\n\u00a0$72,369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n91-99<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n$56,608<\/td>\n\u00a0$61,313<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n100-162<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$50,000<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0$52,141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n163-225<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$42,661<\/td>\n\u00a0$44,728<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n226-288<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$36,636<\/td>\n\u00a0$38,634<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n289-351<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$31,666<\/td>\n\u00a0$33,732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n352-414<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$27,548<\/td>\n\u00a0$29,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n415-477<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n$24,122<\/td>\n\u00a0$25,756<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n478-549<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n$20,850<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0$22,678<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n550-621<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n$18,495<\/td>\n\u00a0$20,228<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n623-693<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n$16,750<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0$18,406<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n694-1000<\/td>\n307<\/td>\n$15,000<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0$0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Aside from the obvious advantage for about 5% of the field getting half their buy-in back instead of nothing, the big changes\u00a0are for the last couple of November Niners, who could see more than a third-again as much money than they would \u00a0have in 2014. Those bonuses\u00a0comes at the obvious expense of the player on the top (hopefully, you didn’t go and spend your $10M guarantee payday anywhere yet) and the players at the bottom of the structure (payouts 37-693), who are losing less in absolute dollar value but a larger percentage of their cash, than players higher in the structure, for the most part. Once again, here is the projected 2015 payout curve, compared to 2014 and 2009. It\u00a0is<\/em> less funky than 2009.<\/p>\n

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