Sometimes tournament betting throws up the bizarre, and more often than not it's the clever members of SportChamps who come out smelling of roses.
These Wacky Winners you simply will not see with the bookies.
EPL (Even Pay Losers)
As you can see via the above screenshot, even players who ended up on $0 ChampCash still took home a healthy $15 real cash collect.
It's inconceivable that you could burn your dough with a bookie and somehow be paid out a buck fifty odds.
This was an anomaly of the 40% payout structure, and we're happy to see our members get on the right end of it.
A $50 Sprint that was a License to Print Money
Take a look at the leaderboard of this recent $50 Sprint (one hour tournament).
Cast your eye towards the bottom and find TheSeagull and DJNewt who've not had a great day, considering they torched their $10,000 ChampCash into $780 and $1 respectively.
For context, this is like going into Flemington with $100 in your pocket and turning into 78c and 1c. You'd be pretty flat (unless you won the affections of a nice filly).
So when you consider they turned their $50 entry into $83 - making a solid $33 profit, despite having a shocker, you just have to applaud the tournament structure.
Even on a bad day, you can win.
HALVE YOUR CASH AND DOUBLE-UP
As some of you may know, we run tournaments called Double Ups. The idea is simple, finish in the top half of the leaderboard and you double your money.
The leaderboard depicted is taken from a $5 double up, with 26 entrants. That means position 1 - 13 are all paid out $10.
Position 13, right on the bubble, is StickyPunt on $5,550.00 ChampCash. He's practically halved his starting balance, all the while DOUBLING HIS MONEY.
Can you imagine getting $5 on with a bookmaker, and losing half, leaving you with $2.50, but them still saying "nah, f**k that, here's a tenner, buddy". Yeah, won't happen.
ONLY IN TOURNAMENT BETTING, Champs.
Thanks to member MadDogDan for sending this one in.
WELCOME TO NBA DAMN
Taken from a $20 NBA Playoffs tournament, where it's fair to say everyone had an absolute howler. They couldn't pick their noses.
Of the nine entrants, eight blew their entire $10K ChampCash... but one crafty little bastard Champ kept $1 up his sleeve.
WELL THAT ONE BUCK WON HIM $122.
To use the $100 analogy, if this punter had a flutter on the Basketball with a bookie, they turned their hundred bones into a solitary cent. URGH...
BUT with SportChamps that horrendous ChampCash return was enough for him to take home 6X his initial buy in and profit big.
TWO BUCK COMEBACK
This legend proves while you've got ChampCash, it's never over.
Down to his last two bucks ChampCash, he got himself back into the money positions in incredible fashion.
A WACKY WINNER LOSER
Our $50,000 and $100,000 challenges have been going off lately.
In these competitions, you pick a ChampCash target you think you can build to, and if you reach it you get paid.
This loveable legend, George112, was chasing the $50,000 target and fell agonisingly short.
OUCH.
BURN YOUR CASH TO VICTORY
We love these situations. They prove just how good tournament betting is, because there isn't a bookie alive where you can lose 95% of your cash and come out with 6X your money.
ExBuster, the legend that he is, eroded his $10,000 ChampCash all the way down to a measly $400.16.
It's like starting the day with $100 bucks and torching it until you've only got $4 in your pocket. That's a horror day on the punt if you're betting in the traditional manner... but not here.
He's won himself $306 real cash. 6X the $50 buy in. YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT.
BONUS WACKYNESS:
Notice the chap in second, George112.
He's the poor fella who just missed the target in the story above. This is why you shouldn't feel sorry for him, he managed to win $130 real cash despite blowing 99.95% of his ChampCash.
Not bad at all, Georgey boy.
If you see something strange on our leaderboard, send it in. If we end up using it in this blog, we'll give you $25 Bonus Cash.