Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
... or not.

First off, there were 600 online players to this event, which wasn't well publicized.

That took it up to 1724 entries.

They got another 254 by extending the reentry period an extra hour on the final flight.

Then they removed the 3% for staff ($1.5m) from the guaranteed pool, making it $48.5m guarantee. This is bizarre, because now it pressures players to tip the staff if cashed (whereas before it's an autotip), so that also removes from what was supposed to be a $50m guarantee.

Anyway, they ended up with no overlay this way.

A Pentagon audit has more transparency than how this fucking tournament claims to have covered this guarantee. There are less contortions done at a Cirque du Soleil performance than what GG has done in this clusterfuck.

The WSOP never seemed big on guarantees before to my knowledge. I know for the main event they “guaranteed” 10 Million for first place a few times. Basically meaningless because if they got less entries than their standard payout structure would pay a minimum of 10 Million for first, they would just payout the 10 million and everyone else would get less than their normal payout structure would normally pay.

Guarantees have become more and more meaningless as time has gone by. It looks like GG may have just officially put the stake in the heart of the meaning of the word.

But Druff if you can clarify this 1.5 Million staff payout contortion. If they actually removed that 1.5 Million without paying it out to the staff, that would be beyond scumbaggery. To set a precedent where they can take that 3% off the guarantee and not actually pay that to the staff is beyond disgraceful. Leaving the player’s all the responsibility is just shoveling more shit on the pile.