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1. This may or may not be true, as I'm going only on the FTP press release and what their release made it sound like, but it *sounds* like the tournament entry fee is smaller as a percentage of the buy-in, which leads to a higher ROI. It also *sounds* like the knockout bounty money is coming MOSTLY from the additional money that FTP would normally just keep as a tournament entry fee (is this true??). If that is true, then the prize pool is flatter, but not drastically flatter, as FTP is just taking a pay cut form the entry fees to pay for most of this.

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I think you're wrong on this point. The way I read it, rake is staying the same. It will still be, say, a $24 + 2 tourney. But of the $24, $20 goes to the regular prize pool, and $4 goes to the bounty.