04-22-2002, 12:42 PM
Hi Joe. First, congratulations on running a great event! You really are a natural at it... it's a shame you weren't able to play also. Hopefully next season you'll be able to work something out to do both.
One thing, though... was there ever a consideration to pay out to 32 places at this event, rather than 24? It seemed kind of silly to me to make the first round of the cash $400, since most players were only paying a $125 entry fee. If you had reduced the 17-24 places to $300, you could have paid the 25-32 places $100.
Of course, I'm partially asking for a selfish reason, since I came in 25th :-) But one of the problems with men's pool is that tournaments are very expensive for their participants, and paying out a larger percentage of the field would make the trip more worthwhile for a lot of players. As there were about 110 players, paying 32 would have meant paying almost 30% of the field, rather than just slightly over 20%.
Anyway, please don't take this as criticism. You ran a great event, and I'm just asking if this was a consideration.
Thanks,
Steve Lipsky
One thing, though... was there ever a consideration to pay out to 32 places at this event, rather than 24? It seemed kind of silly to me to make the first round of the cash $400, since most players were only paying a $125 entry fee. If you had reduced the 17-24 places to $300, you could have paid the 25-32 places $100.
Of course, I'm partially asking for a selfish reason, since I came in 25th :-) But one of the problems with men's pool is that tournaments are very expensive for their participants, and paying out a larger percentage of the field would make the trip more worthwhile for a lot of players. As there were about 110 players, paying 32 would have meant paying almost 30% of the field, rather than just slightly over 20%.
Anyway, please don't take this as criticism. You ran a great event, and I'm just asking if this was a consideration.
Thanks,
Steve Lipsky