- The day after Full Tilt added $50 buy in tournaments to its Jackpot Sit & Gos, the top prize of $100k has been hit.
- After the third placed player busted, and with the two remaining players each guaranteed at least $15,000, the tournament had suddenly become a $60,000 winner take all heads up match.
The day after Full Tilt added $50 buy in tournaments to its Jackpot Sit & Gos, the top prize of $100,000 has been hit.
Jackpot Sit & Gos vary the prize fund using a random multiplier between 2 and 2,000 times the buy-in. The top prize is programmed to be awarded on average three times in every 100,000 tournaments.
The lottery sit and go format has proved to be a huge hit with players.
The three players in the first $100,000 payout tournament received a very strong confirmation of their decision to choose to play—a marketing edge the format has over traditional Sit and Gos.
The Jackpot Sit & Gos are normally winner take all, but the official payout structure for those with the highest multipliers is 75%, 15% and 10%.
Deal or High Stakes Stress
After the third placed player busted, and with the two remaining players each guaranteed at least $15,000, the tournament had suddenly become a $60,000 winner take all heads up match. With so much money on the line, the players decided to do a deal, and split the prize pool, receiving a total of $45,000 each.
Full Tilt offers an automated tournament deal making function, but the idea of doing a deal in a three man hyper turbo sit and go is a little unusual—players who have yet to feel the tension of playing for such large sums of money in a relatively low buy-in hyperturbo tournament will appreciate the option to hedge their risk.
The winning players were:
- FdotFloss (Australia) – $45,000
- SirSion (Australia) – $45,000
- gismoR1 (Austria) – $10,000
