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Quickie Mega Millions Postscript
This is just quick follow-up to my two posts about the Mega Millions tournament at the Bike (see here and here).
Day 2 was this past Tuesday. And I saw that 108 players paid $4,300 to enter directly into Day 2. So when they started, there were a total of 407 players playing, so a bit less than 300 made it into Day 2 from all the Day 1 flights combined.
As you can see from the payouts they posted (here), they are paying 135. So about 1/3. Remember I heard when I played you had to be in the top 30% of the Day 2 finishers to cash any more than you got for just making it into Day 2. That was essentially correct (my source probably just said 30% when he meant 33-1/3%). It’s a weird payout structure. In a “normal” tournament you would expect 10%—or maybe as many as 15%—to get paid. But again, since they already cashed in Day 1, you might also expect that payouts would continue immediately on Day 2 and of course that’s not the case.
So if Day 2 is really the tournament and the Day 1’s were just satellites for it—and I guess they were—why pay so many people on Day 2? Why not the more standard 10% or so? It’s just a unusual kind of hybrid tournament. Half satellite, half stand alone. But they’ve been doing this for many years and it gets a lot of people, so obviously the format is popular.
Also saw that the total prize pool was over $1.8MM. But I’m not sure if that’s the total starting on Day 2 or if it includes all the money paid out for the Day 1’s.
Now take a closer look at that payout sheet. Not the top—a $311K score for the winner. Look at the bottom. The min-cash is $1,200. That’s not bad if you came in through a Day 1, especially if you only paid $160 (or, more likely, $260 with the add-on). But….no doubt some of those min-cashers paid $4,300 to enter directly into Day 2. So for those folks, even though they cashed, they actually lost $3,100. For cashing! Now that’s a new definition of min-cashing! A real minnie-cash!
In fact, you have to make it to 54thplace to make a profit. A sweet $100 score for a $4,300 buy-in.
Kind of makes that $40 I made for a $260 buy-in seem like gold.
Note: This post is more like a Tweet than a real post, just wanted to put a period on the stuff I wrote about the Mega Millions. So come back tomorrow morning and I'll have a brand new post for you. BTW, it will be salacious!
Kind of makes that $40 I made for a $260 buy-in seem like gold.
Note: This post is more like a Tweet than a real post, just wanted to put a period on the stuff I wrote about the Mega Millions. So come back tomorrow morning and I'll have a brand new post for you. BTW, it will be salacious!
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