[OrShoham]

Hi,
Just wondering if there's been a change to the Zenith Daylong tournament reward structure.
On January 7th, top prize was $4.33 for a pool of 1717 players
On January 16th, top prize was $3.66 for a pool of 1733 players

Basically the same number of players, but ~15% lower top prize. I did not check if the total prize pool has changed or not, but it seems odd that the top prize would change this much.

[pigpenz]

i thought I had heard they lowered the prize pool, but that was on BridgeWinners not there

[smerriman]

There's lots of threads about this in the General BBO Discussion forum. BBO increased their rake considerably in many forms of the game (including killing off Robot Reward entirely).

[diana_eva]

The Zenith and also the 8 Random Deals Daylong Reward used to pay back 80% of the entry fees in BB$ prizes.

As of January 9, the payback structure changed to 70% of the entry fees back in BB$ prizes.

The payback formula and other details about each game are available by clicking the About button on the Daylong registration pop-up.

[nxw0016]

It's a BAD move by BBO. But I do not see a lot of discussion about this in the general BBO discussion. I think we should all voice our concerns.