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Originally Posted by MichaelJordan23
If you're saying they split the 2nd and 3rd place total prize money between you two then yes, that's not the correct way to award payouts. Should be based on the starting stack sizes before the start of the hand. I would fight this - Keep us posted.
That's exactly what they do. It's incorrect and several of us have told them that already, but they haven't changed it nor acknowledged it would be changed. I agree it's kind of silly when there's a big disparity in chips. Like player 1 has 250K, P2 has 150K, and P3 has 20K... if they play a 3 way all in and P1 wins, player 2 should get 2nd place money and player 3 gets 3rd by virtue of the chip stacks. It makes sense, P3 is "out of chips first" or in a sense was "all in" first because he's shorter.
At any rate, now that you know the way GP does it is split 2nd and 3rd place money evenly between 2 and 3, you can think about what strategy adjustments you want to make in those spots. The problem is since literally no other tournament venue live or online does it the way GP does, it catches everyone by surprise the first time. In the above scenario P2 may not be willing to commit his entire stack knowing it will cost him 2nd place money if he busts with P3, where as everywhere else P2 is factoring into their decision that if they bust simultaneously he's still got the 2nd place payday.
Global should really include this information in their tourney rules at least. Or, more logically, fix the programming to pay these spots out the same way everyone else does.