Abstract: A method of selecting players to make payments associated with a session of a game is disclosed. A player is selected to make a payment. The selecting of the player is based on a session counter of the player having a higher value than a session counter of an additional player seeking to participate in the session of the game. Based on a receiving of the payment from the selected player, the session counter of the selected player is decremented by an amount corresponding to the payment, the value of the session counter of the additional player is incremented by an amount corresponding to the payment, and the selected player and the unselected player are allowed to participate in the session of the instance of the game.