Tourney Sub prize for tournament? (18 Viewers)

[cathat12]

I hosted a 20 person tournament recently and had 5 high schoolers join (along with their dads). The high schoolers don't play much (especially for money), so they didn't last super long. For the next tourney, if there are a similar handful of high schoolers who join again, I was thinking of doing a sub-prize for the high schooler who lasts the longest, awarding say 10% of the prize pot for this winner. It seems pretty straightforward as I think about it, but are there any details that I should be thinking about?

 

[asian bino]

Make them all pitch in a dollar or 5 (or whatever a nominal amount is in your tournament ) AMONGST THEMSELVES as a 'last longer' for the teens.
If they won't do that, then they are NOT THAT INTERESTED n the prize anyway. Do NOT give ANY of the prize pool away unless they EARN it! Poker is NOT a 'participation award' sport.

 

[BGinGA]

Make them all pitch in a dollar or 5 (or whatever a nominal amount is in your tournament ) AMONGST THEMSELVES as a 'last longer' for the teens.
If they won't do that, then they are NOT THAT INTERESTED n the prize anyway. Do NOT give ANY of the prize pool away unless they EARN it! Poker is NOT a 'participation award' sport.

^^ This is the way.... essentially a separate prize pool just for the teens, funded by the teens.

Offer a separate --and larger-- last-longer pool for the non-teens.

 

[asian bino]

Did you try this, and what was the result??

 

[cathat12]

Did you try this, and what was the result??

No high schoolers showed up in my last tourney, so didn't get to try it. Maybe we scared them away!