Payouts

Just so nobody can bitch about it again, here's the payout schedule.

With up to 6 players, winner take all.
7 players - winner gets $120, 2nd place gets $20.
8 players - winner gets $140, 2nd place gets $20.
9 players - winner gets $140, 2nd place gets $40.
10 players - winner gets $140, 2nd place gets $40, 3rd place gets $20.

If you think of each $20 as a single point, this is how the pattern looks as a matrix:

         1st   2nd   3rd
1player   1
2players  1
3players  1
4players  1
5players  1
6players  1     0
7players  0     1
8players  1     0     0
9players  0     1     0
10players 0     0     1

If, hypothetically, we could just scale up the number of players, the pattern would extend:

         1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th
11players 1     0     0     0
12players 0     1     0     0
13players 0     0     1     0
14players 0     0     0     1
15players 1     0     0     0     0
16players 0     1     0     0     0
17players 0     0     1     0     0
18players 0     0     0     1     0
19players 0     0     0     0     1

Hope that makes sense to everyone. There has to be a big incentive to be last man standing. Everything else is a consolation prize in comparison.