Tournament Pay Out Structure Help

smitty007 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 04:00 PM

Hey everyone, I was hoping to get some advice on what a typical pay out structure is for tournaments. I run an 8 person home game, tournament style, and am also looking to run a 20 person tournament. Does anyone know if there is a typical percentage breakdown for paying out, and if so, please enlighten me! Thanks for any help,

-Smitty

A-Ro · #2 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 04:05 PM

Good info here:

http://www.homepokertourney.com/payout.htm

smitty007 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006, 04:53 PM

Thanks A-Ro, I'll take a look!

jldecarlo · #4 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006, 07:55 PM

I would pay fourth place their buy-in and then divide the other money 50/30/20.

Or if you will have rebuys, I would pay fifth place their buy-in and then go 40/30/20/10.

L

cappicola · #5 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006, 08:18 PM

Some of the spreadsheets over at homepokertourney.com provide help with payouts, blinds, chip distribution.

Here's one you can try.... you only change the values in the blue cells in the spreadsheet. (you can tweak the values in the non-blue cells when you're done if you feel the need)

http://home.comcast.net/~hachkc/tourney_setup_v3.xls

Good luck!

smitty007 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 02:38 PM

Does anyone happen to know what the World Series of Poker, U.S. Poker Championship, or World Poker Tour payout structures are?

JHickle · #7 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 03:09 PM

Here is a link to ME/2006 WSOP. Not sure what the percentages were, but they paid the top 10% (873 of 8773 made the money)

http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/pd..._Structure.pdf

smitty007 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 03:26 PM

Sweet, thanks J!

Rosencrantz1 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-12-2006, 08:38 AM

We do a tourney style as well in our home game. If we have fewer than 8, we pay top two, usually along the lines of 70/30. 8+, we'll pay top three, with third just getting his buy-in back.

For larger I would probably go with the same structure as Pokerroom's SnGs (which is where I usually play online):

20 players = top four payed, 40/30/20/10

GL

ky70 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-12-2006, 09:12 AM

I took another members payout structure and tweaked to fit my needs. This is now my current structure:
Group 1...1-5 players...winner take all
Group 2...6-8 players...1st place 66.7%, 2nd place 33.3%
Group 3...9-14 players...1st place 57%, 2nd place 28%, 3rd place 15%
Group 4...15-20 players...1st place 51%, 2nd place 25%, 3rd place 14%, 4th place 10%
Group 5...21-30 players...1st place 46.75%, 2nd place 23.1%, 3rd place 13.75%, 4th place 9.25%, 5th place 7.15%

I made it so that the last paid spot will always get more than their buy-in (although not much more) and more importantly, I make sure that each player's payout would be at least equal to the previous group max player payout with a 2 player difference. For example, 1st place in a 16 player game (Group 4) would make at least as much as 1st place in a 14 player game (Group 3) and 1st place in a 22 player game (Group 5) would make at least as much as 1st place in a 20 player game (Group 4). So although 1st place will make a little less than the previous group max player payout with only a 1 player difference (i.e. 1st place in 14 player game would make more than 1st place in a 15 player game ) because of the additional payout spot being added, I make sure that this isn't the case with a 2 player difference.