Is there anywhere I can find the pay outs for last weeks Open? I'm not finding them on here.
U.S. Open payouts
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Thanks, I needed that for an article I'm writing.
There's quite a difference between 1st and 2nd, $40,000 for 1st and $15,000 for second. A few balls and a roll or two in the finals are worth $25,000.......
James
Makes you wish Bill Gates had a real interest in the Sport.
Can you imagine:
The Microsoft US Open Nine Ball Championships present by Barry Bherman Productions!
1st. prize: $1,000,000!
2nd. prize: $750,000!
3rd. prize: $500,000!
Top 128 places paid out!
Open to Men and Women...limit 384 players, two week tournament.
I can dream, can't I?
The standard was 25% of the field. Some tournaments abide by this, some don't. Big tournaments will go with the 25% and maybe a little more (like the US Open). Small tournaments decide on their own.
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Can you spell "saver"?
With a $25,000 gap between 1st and 2nd, i promis you there was more business going on between the players than all of Wall St.
Correct me if im wrong but wasn't there 215 players this year and they paid out 96 places that about 45% of the field (from what I got from the payout listing). That is alot of places being paid.
I feel pretty confident that Ralf Souquet and Mike Immonen did not agree on a saver. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
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i do believe there were 228 players
i do believe there were 228 players
You could be wrong.
There were 216 players this year and 96 got in the money, 44% of the field cashed. Barry likes to pay deep.
I'm not familiar with a "saver" though it's easy enough to guess. Split the differece? Or just a deal to even the difference a little.
In a winner take all final, I could MAYBE see a deal getting worked, but both first and second place checks would look nice in my pocket. If I'm in the finals and I'm looking at $40k, I'm fighting like a dog for $40k and I would hope the other guy is too.
In a winner take all final, I could MAYBE see a deal getting worked, but both first and second place checks would look nice in my pocket. If I'm in the finals and I'm looking at $40k, I'm fighting like a dog for $40k and I would hope the other guy is too.
I didn't know they paid so deep entering the event and only found out just before the match for cash. I just went to say I played the US Open and will go back because bangers like me stand a chance to get back the $600 entry. I think if you pay 25% of the field, first place would be more like 2nd prize money and the entrants would be under 128.
Cleary, savers are usually made between "friends" in pool tournaments to help offset expenses.
For example, let's say two good friends were going to have to play each other, and each one of them had a chance to cash. One might make a saver with the other for, say, 10 percent. The saver is usually a small percentage.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say a pool player made a saver at the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship before their match for 10 percent, and one of them came in third place, pocketing $10,000. He would then give his friend $1,000 as agreed upon.
This is a saver. They are usually made between friends, but it is a very common practice here in the States. Usually, these are private agreements between the players and are not made public. Both of them are trying to win, but, in the event that one of them loses, it kind of cushions a loss a wee bit.
Hope this helps explain what a "saver" is. :smile:
When you see the pro players hanging around for the semi-finals and finals, sweating the matches, some of them are sweating their 10-percent saver. LOL!
I remember one year a well-known player at an unnamed tournament won the whole shebang.
Meanwhile, he was getting staked to play in the tournament. He also made savers with three different players along the path up the tournament chart. He ended up winning the tournament, and after the cheese was cut up, it was HIM who pocketed 10 percent of the first-place tournament payout. LOL
As soon as he won, he was surrounded by four guys that never left his side until the TD paid him. It was kind of funny to watch. :grin-square:
It all depends on how the prize money payout is recorded for Uncle Sam's purposes. I have made some fairly large savers in poker tournies and they do the 1099 form on the amount you actually win, not the listed winnings. All players are treated the same. You pay taxes on your actual winnings.