partypoker: over $500,000 in tournament overlays and $91,000 rake race

fastforward leaderboards: prize pool rise to $91,000

There have been several increases in the prize pool of the new fast poker rake races at partypoker; right now the added money exceeds the $90k. In the beginning, the races were divided by stakes (both for NLH and PLO), but this formula didn't work as the highest stakes barely had action.

So the last four leaderboards were combined into two, and at the same time, the prize was doubled. Another change in the rake structure were the positions rewarded: for PLO25 was reduced from 12 to 10 players (with an increase in the prizes for the TOP5).

For the low stakes race (PLO2 to PLO10), on the contrary, three new paid places were added for a total of 11.

Current fastforward leaderboard prize tables

NLH $56,000

Race	High > $20,000	Medium > $20,000	Low > $7,500	Low > $5,000	Micro > $2,000	Micro > $1,000	Micro > $500
Position	NLH500$-1K	NLH100$-200$	NLH50$	NLH25$	NLH10$	NLH5$	NLH2$
1	5000	3750	1750	1250	500	250	100
2	3000	2500	1250	750	400	175	75
3	2500	2000	1000	500	300	125	50
4	2000	1750	700	500	200	100	50
5	1750	1500	500	250	150	75	50
6	1500	1250	250	250	100	75	25
7	1250	1250	250	250	75	50	25
8	1000	1000	250	250	75	50	25
9	1000	1000	250	100	50	25	25
10	1000	1000	250	100	50	25	25
11		750	250	100	50	25	25
12		750	100	100	50	25	25
13		750	100	100
14		750	100	100
15-19			100	50
16-22				50

PLO $35,000

Race	High > $20,000	Medium > $8,000	Low > $2,750	Low > $1,800	Micro > $1,200	Micro > $725	Micro > $425
Position	PLO500$-1K	PLO100$-200$	PLO50$	PLO25$	PLO10$	PLO5$	PLO2$
	5000	2000	750	500	300	200	100
2	3000	1500	500	350	225	150	75
3	2500	1250	500	250	150	100	50
4	2000	1000	250	175	100	75	40
5	1750	750	250	175	100	75	30
6	1500	500	100	100	75	50	20
7	1250	500	100	100	75	50	20
8	1000	500	100	50	75	25	20
9	1000		100	50	50	25	15
10	1000		100	50	50	25	15
11					50	25	15

KO Series: total overlay exceeds $500,000

At the beginning of the latest KO Series, we shared that overlays over $200,00 were spotted at the tables. Now the event has ended, and we can analyze the final results and confirm if the measures to improve the players' attendance worked out

Usually, the largest events cover the guaranteed prize pool (thanks to more advertising); in the KO Series all the main events covered the GTD prize pool, usually by a substantial margin, mainly because of several satellites played during the series:

But throughout the week, we counted about 50 events with small overlays of 1%-2% of the total guaranteed prize pool.

In terms of the overlay size, the most profitable KO Series events for players were:

• KO Series №35-H: $750K GTD, $320 – overlay $38,212;
• KO Series №35-HR: $750K GTD, $2,100 – $28,400;
• KO Series №43-R: $200K GTD, $110 – $25,696;
• KO Series №40-HR: $750K GTD, $1,050 – $22,560;
• KO Series №12-HR: $500K GTD, $2,100 – $22,350;
• KO Series №25-HR: $1500K GTD, $530 – $18,800;
• KO Series №11-H: $200K GTD, $110 – $15,296;

In short, the total size of overlays in the KO Series exceeded $500,000, which is, of course, a significant amount of money but only accounts for 1,7% of the global guaranteed prize pool, and only half as much as in the same series in spring. We can conclude that the measures implemented by partypoker gave the desired result.

Another good news for partypoker players came from Rob Yong, who confirmed that shortly players will have an option to download the hand histories in a CSV format with anonymized villains (player 1, player 2, etc.).

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