Amateurs and Prize Money?

Anyone else have input on the whole prize money thing? If you are a FOP top 1% athlete, would you pick a race if it had a decent prize purse for an amateur field over other events? Who will start consistently offering prize money at race?

Just got an invite to a circuit cycling race here in Korea. Prize Purse: $13,500USD…$500 Primes every 5 laps, it is a 25 lap race. $5,000USD to win. Crazy how much money they are throwing at amateurs over here!!

Here is my race report from last weekend: http://aftriathlonguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/ever-raced-in-east-sea-i-have.html