Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by MDawg View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Amount owed was $435, most of it missions money.
Amount owed is more like a thousand. Chaps was just one of the winners to whom Mission146 owed.

Over all, every year, M146 runs this contest and covers deficit between the entrance fees and the amount owed to winners, out of his own pocket. This year that deficit was around $1000.

As I posted at WOV, if it were made clear that payments to winners may be delayed, and perhaps include some kind of maximum timeline, that would address this issue.
3 winners, about 1K total. But only a fraction of the buy-in money goes thru missions hands.. It is paid directly from the losers to the winners.
After accounting for what the participants have to pay the winners or have already paid the winners, Mission146 needs to input around a thousand of his own money. This is also what UnJon keeps reminding people too.

So even after M146 pays the 400 to GordonM888, he has to input around another 600 to settle all balances for the winners. From what UnJon and others have explained, that 600 is not owed by participants (you call them the losers). That's the point.

So he's not on the lam over 400 - unless UnJon and the others are wrong, he's on the hook for around a 1000.