I said at the end of play yesterday: \”Today was the fight for the money. Tomorrow is the fight for the real money,\”
That\’s not really correct. In fact, it\’s pretty inaccurate … at least the second part, about Day 5.
The prize jumps that should be reached today are relatively small. Click here to see the prize payouts again.
404th place pays $27k.
If we lose more than half the remaining field today, we\’ll be up to $37k. That\’s a lot of fight necessary for just a single buy-in to next year\’s main event.
The \”big money\” doesn\’t kick in until about 72nd place … where the payouts jump from $69k to $90k, and then every few spots of survival from there translate into the kind of money jump of which the IRS is likely to take note.