Help with a side pot tourney

[juspooln]

I am starting a little (250 added 20 dollar entry fee) handicap 32 man/women tourney at a room and thinking about adding a side pot. There will be a redraw on the following day with the top 8.
Looking for ideas or feedback for those who have run one of a good way to get the players involved and the audience if possible. Starting out with B and C players only and was thinking of adding $100 of the money to the side pot. Any and all info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[macguy]

I am starting a little (250 added 20 dollar entry fee) handicap 32 man/women tourney at a room and thinking about adding a side pot. There will be a redraw on the following day with the top 8.
Looking for ideas or feedback for those who have run one of a good way to get the players involved and the audience if possible. Starting out with B and C players only and was thinking of adding $100 of the money to the side pot. Any and all info would be greatly appreciated.

I used to do it with every tournament I ran. I am not sure what you mean by a side pot but here is what I did. I would create a separate side pot for the weaker players. These are guys who enter every month and actually have no chance of winning. So the highest finisher would win the pot.

They would kick in like $20.00 and the winner would win like $200. or $300. I also because these were small house tournaments when some better players were around they wanted to win more so they would do like $100. pot. It would not be unusual if we had a lot of good players for that pot to be like $1500.00.

I remember one tournament that Mike Massy won he won like $3000 with the side money and the tournament money. I think at one point the side pots was what they were all showing up for. The weak players loved it because they had a chance to at least win something. That is the gist of what I used to do.