[Kevin8423]

Why don't you just take a sample of 1000 games that you have played, use the finish positions of those 1000 and calculate what your ROI and total profit would have been with the alternate payout structure.

I would assume the games are much softer and the variance is far less, but it would be interesting to see. Not necessarily accurate because the bubble is somewhat lost and due to the payouts the strategy would be changed some, but I would still like to see how the prizes would translate in games of an equal buyin.