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Guarantee / Overlay (poker)

Also: Guarantee, GTD, overlay

Poker term

A guaranteed prize pool, and the organizer covering the gap when too few enter.

An event with an overlay is profitable for the entrants. Example. With a 1,000,000 guarantee and 800,000 collected in entry fees, the overlay is 200,000.

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