I am mostly motivated to climb the leaderboard because I enjoy competition
That said, I wish the yearly prizes were more commensurate to their respective stakes.
I consider myself a pretty representative high stakes MTT reg; I am currently #5 on the Yearly LB. In January I had less than 1M chips, and now I have about 160M. I project to have between 600M and 1B by year’s end (fingers x’d lol).
If this bears out, even the #1 LB prize of 2M chips would represent at most 0.3% of my bankroll. It would be nice if the leaderboard prizes packed a little more punch!
If you win the Super Bowl each member of the Winning team gets a check of $164,000. Patrick Mahomes makes approximately $45 million per season (10 year $450 million) (on field earnings only).
Do you think he complains about only getting a bonus of 0.36% of his annual salary? Or does he embrace the status of being a champion.
Thats all a leaderboard is bragging rights and a nominal prize. Beside if you are doing well in the annual leaderboard you also did well in each monthly leaderboard (and got paid), and a large percentage of tournaments that count towards your ranking won alot of chips. The yearly prize pool is only double the monthly prize pool but it isn’t the only reward you receive over the year.
