Mathy / pokerish type question.

[RED-DOG]

Stars bigger $5.50, 9k runners, 35k gtd.

With 1000 runners remaining, average chips, it seems to me that my equity would be like, $35, or with 70 left it would be £500.

Is that right, is it that simple?

[Doobs]

Stars bigger $5.50, 9k runners, 35k gtd.

With 1000 runners remaining, average chips, it seems to me that my equity would be like, $35, or with 70 left it would be £500.

Is that right, is it that simple?

Kind of.

First one you can just do 9x5 which is 45.  Everyone starts with 5.  9000/1000 x 5 = 45

70 left you can reduce 9000/70 to 900/7.  That is 130ish.  Multiply 5 by 130 is 650. 

[RED-DOG]

Stars bigger $5.50, 9k runners, 35k gtd.

With 1000 runners remaining, average chips, it seems to me that my equity would be like, $35, or with 70 left it would be £500.

Is that right, is it that simple?

Kind of.

First one you can just do 9x5 which is 45.  Everyone starts with 5.  9000/1000 x 5 = 45

70 left you can reduce 9000/70 to 900/7.  That is 130ish.  Multiply 5 by 130 is 650. 

So when you say kind of what you actually mean is no.

With 70 left why isn't it 35000/70 = 500?

[stribling]

Stars bigger $5.50, 9k runners, 35k gtd.

With 1000 runners remaining, average chips, it seems to me that my equity would be like, $35, or with 70 left it would be £500.

Is that right, is it that simple?

Kind of.

First one you can just do 9x5 which is 45.  Everyone starts with 5.  9000/1000 x 5 = 45

70 left you can reduce 9000/70 to 900/7.  That is 130ish.  Multiply 5 by 130 is 650. 

So when you say kind of what you actually mean is no.

With 70 left why isn't it 35000/70 = 500?

I may be wrong but you're using the guarantee, that number has been surpassed now due to the amount of runners, hence why doobs numbet is bigger

[cambridgealex]

Prizepool isn't 35k Tom, it's 45k. 9,000 players x $5 each.

[RED-DOG]

Of course. I didn't think. I assumed.

"To make an assumption makes an ass out of you and umption"

Samuel L Jackson?

[Ledders]

Once the money has been reached, cash is leaving the tournament so you have to divide your chips by the remaining prize pool to start figuring out an equity figure.

[Karabiner]

So you won it right?

[doubleup]

I think the actual equity would depend on the distribution of the chips.  Average chips usually have higher equity per chip than big stacks.  Probably not a huge difference at the stages in your examples, but could be quite significant at a final table.