| This is a discussion on What is overlay? within the online poker forums, in the Learning Poker section; Originally Posted by GoBilliards also, Please explain why in a tournament(Esp a guarenteed one) do the tables go down to fewest possible tables per the ... |
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What is overlay, and how does late registration affect it |
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example $200K guaranted. If 5000 people buy in for $25.00+2.00 the the sites overlay to guarantee 200k in payout is $75k. |
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| ...and the first quote was actually talking about the prize structure in specific instances, don't think he/she knew what overlay was either. Overlays sometimes happen in guarantees when not enough people register, but the Pokerstars 500k$ on the 28th is actually guaranteeing overlay (a holiday gift I suppose) as the maximum entrants is 35k x $10 |
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| the overlay part of the payout is the gravy, everyone's buy-ins are the potatoes. and gravy is good! what sucks though is when they pre-post the payout structure based on a certain # of entrants but change it when the tourney starts to actual payouts base on the real # of entrants. why not reward those who signed up for the tourney with a nearly gaurateed prize? |
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| I think everyone knows that poker sites are in the business to make money so I dont think overlays happen all that often ... maybe occassionally that might have a torueny with a bad turn out but I think they can generally predict at what buy in will cover a guarnatee of any amount of money I dont think overlays happen very often at all |
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Can't address Bodog since I only play the CC events there, but UB is easy to understand. They have lost a ton of players. I suspect they are studying the overlay cost and will adjust as future results are analyzed. I've seen a lot of their MTT's start with fields that look more like SnG's. It's also hard to analyze a field size and overlay if it had satellite entries. The rake derived from the prior satellites often covers what 'seems' to be an overlay for the site. |
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