TheBigFinn
Visionary
Bronze Level
I have been playing the $5 SnG2 for a couple days and am wondering what the impact of the bonus structure is. If you are unfamiliar, for a $5 + $0.50 buy-in the minimum award is $22 for first and $13 to second, nut before you start play 9 cards are picked from a deck of 55. 26 red, 26 green and 3 gold. If the first card is green 3rd place is added to pay $9 and 1st and 2nd pay offs are increased. As long as you don't draw a red card the pot builds to 1st-$26, 2nd-$34, 3rd-$24, 4th-$20, 5th-$18, 6th-$16, 7th-$14, 8th-$12 & 9th-$10. The odds of this happening are long. 29/55*28/54*27/53*26/52*25/51*24/50*23/49*22/48*21/47 or ~0.2% of the deals.
The three gold cards build the pot and are used to determine if your table plays for the maximum prize pool of $39,000 in the example. I the total prize pool is a progressive jackpot, but it is a 1/1,000,000 shot that you'll be playing for it.
The question is, "Is giving up 3rd place and $10 to the prize pool 26/55 of the time worth the chance to play for higher pots later? If you dodge the first red card, the payouts are the same as a normal sit and go.so only 20% of the time do you get to play for higher stakes.
What do you think?
The three gold cards build the pot and are used to determine if your table plays for the maximum prize pool of $39,000 in the example. I the total prize pool is a progressive jackpot, but it is a 1/1,000,000 shot that you'll be playing for it.
The question is, "Is giving up 3rd place and $10 to the prize pool 26/55 of the time worth the chance to play for higher pots later? If you dodge the first red card, the payouts are the same as a normal sit and go.so only 20% of the time do you get to play for higher stakes.
What do you think?