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Are all poker games scored on the same points scale?
I am illiterate when it comes to poker but if someone finishes with 968.00 points, how much money would that be? Or does that vary from game to game and the points don't always equal the same monetary amount?
by the way, I am asking about a real game in a tournament. Not an online game.
Someone told us they won 1.3 mil in a poker tourney. The story seemed flimsy so we looked them up and found an ameteur poker contest in which they were listed as the 3rd finisher with 968 points. DIdn't know ameteur poker tourneys paid that high and still not sure what the points mean, yeah they finished third, so that means they were second to last to go out, but not sure about the monetery value of their winnings. thought Id try here. Just trying to get their story straight, as it seems they are lying about quite a few things. Not such a great poker face on this guy.
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- Divide By ZeroLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sounds like some local bar league where they play a small tournament (probably free) once a week and at the end of the year the person with the most points wins some prize. It would be the person who had the highest average finish. Which games are scored in which way, we'd have no clue, it would be whatever that league decides.
So if that's the only thing his name came up in, he was lying about the 1.3 mil. Try the Hendon Mob database.
- pdqLv 71 decade ago
We couldn't possibly know the answer to this. People don't usually collect "points" when they play a tournament. They usually collect chips. In a tournament, the person who collects ALL the chips wins! From there, they decide who wins 2nd place or 3rd place by whoever gets knocked out of the tournament 2nd to the last and 3rd to the last. (Similarly for 4th, 5th, 6th, and on and on to however many places that tournament pays.)
Some small tournaments pay only ONE person. Some very large tournaments might pay hundreds of people.
"How much" all depends on that particular tournament. Don't ever pay to get into a tournament if you don't understand who gets paid and WHY they get paid.
