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I have an idea for a tourney series.
$10M per team - 2 teams, online and live, 20 per team
50 Tourneys online and 50 live (so you get a semi-good sample)
1/2 prizepool goes to individual tourney's, 1/2 to overall team structure - so this way each person is competing against everyone, not just opposite team (no team play like Pokerbowl, though)
Per Tourney payout (assuming $10M per team)
1st - $55k
2nd - $20k
3rd - $15k
4th - $10k

Then with the team payout the winning team would split the remaining $10M. Scoring for teams would be as follows (least amount of total points wins)
1st - 1 point
40th - 40 points

Obviously this would only work if people had the time and resources to play as it would be $200k per person and to play 100 tournaments in addition to what people normally play would be difficult, but I think if the amount of money is high enough it could happen.

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This would never work. Poker is an individual game. The minute you have a teammate or begin to think about the overall standings/points etc...it completely changes the way you play. If the other 8 players at the table aren't all villains, then softplaying, chipdumping and other factors would come into play. Example...3 online players and 2 cash game players remain in the 100th event and the online players need the top 3 spots to win the title, they would never attempt to knock out one of their 'teammates'and lose 50% of the prize pool. Team Poker does not work.

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Or instead of having team structures just double the payouts on the 100 tourneys and just keep a running total of who has done better with no monetary compensation for the team aspect, just bragging rights.