Let me provide some background. For the past three weeks I have played in a small $50 weekly tournament that two years ago attracted between 18 to 25 players and is now only drawing 8 to 12 players.
We had 8 players my first week back. I had the big stack for most of the evening. Final three, I am dealt Queens in the SB. Button raises. I flat. BB (short stack) jams all in. Button folds, I call. BB flips over Aces. I take the cooler. I end up facing the dealer heads up a 2.5 to 1 dog. He generously offers to split the prize pool 50/50 after taking his buy-in back. I accept the deal.
We had 12 players the following week. Again, I am the big stack for most of the evening. We are down to 5 payers and
the button raises with pocket eights. I call with AH,TH. Flop: 3H,8H,Black Ace. Check-bet-call. Turn, Jack of Diamonds. Check-bet-call. River, Jack of Spades. I bet, he flats.
I am dealt A,J the very next hand. I raise, the SB calls. Flop: A,5,5. Check-bet-min. re-raise. He milks me for my flop bet on the turn and the river with K,5DD. I bubble the tournament. (4th place)
Mentally, I wanted to take a week off from this game, but a friend of mine who is without wheels wanted to play last night. Being the good friend that he is, he persuaded another mutual friend to join us. Being the good friend that I am, I took them.
Like last week, we had 12 players. I floated through the better part of the tournament with an average to slightly larger than average chip stack. I end up slowly bleeding chips as the host secured a dominating lead by eliminating the two other remaining players from the game.
I found myself out-stacked 60K to14K. I asked the host if he wanted to split the prize pool according to our chip stacks. Neither he nor the last player eliminated had any idea what I meant. (Surprisingly) I stated the prize pool would be chopped based upon the percentage of chips we had before us. The two took my words literally. Thus, they thought the game was over. I back-pedaled, trying to explain to them that a split only makes sense if it gives that player more money then what they are already guaranteed to win.
They either ignored or didn't understand the premise. The player who finished in third really lost his cool, telling me a deal is a deal, and calling me a liar for backing out. He threw fuel on the fire by raising his voice and not allowing me to explain myself further, so I simply stated three or four times that I wanted to play it out.
I had the chip lead within 35 minutes of commencing heads up play. The host offered to split the money fifty-fifty.
Seeing no long term gain, I took the deal.
(There is a 2x pay jump between first place and second place.)
WTF?? is my question.
We had 8 players my first week back. I had the big stack for most of the evening. Final three, I am dealt Queens in the SB. Button raises. I flat. BB (short stack) jams all in. Button folds, I call. BB flips over Aces. I take the cooler. I end up facing the dealer heads up a 2.5 to 1 dog. He generously offers to split the prize pool 50/50 after taking his buy-in back. I accept the deal.
We had 12 players the following week. Again, I am the big stack for most of the evening. We are down to 5 payers and
the button raises with pocket eights. I call with AH,TH. Flop: 3H,8H,Black Ace. Check-bet-call. Turn, Jack of Diamonds. Check-bet-call. River, Jack of Spades. I bet, he flats.
I am dealt A,J the very next hand. I raise, the SB calls. Flop: A,5,5. Check-bet-min. re-raise. He milks me for my flop bet on the turn and the river with K,5DD. I bubble the tournament. (4th place)
Mentally, I wanted to take a week off from this game, but a friend of mine who is without wheels wanted to play last night. Being the good friend that he is, he persuaded another mutual friend to join us. Being the good friend that I am, I took them.
Like last week, we had 12 players. I floated through the better part of the tournament with an average to slightly larger than average chip stack. I end up slowly bleeding chips as the host secured a dominating lead by eliminating the two other remaining players from the game.
I found myself out-stacked 60K to14K. I asked the host if he wanted to split the prize pool according to our chip stacks. Neither he nor the last player eliminated had any idea what I meant. (Surprisingly) I stated the prize pool would be chopped based upon the percentage of chips we had before us. The two took my words literally. Thus, they thought the game was over. I back-pedaled, trying to explain to them that a split only makes sense if it gives that player more money then what they are already guaranteed to win.
They either ignored or didn't understand the premise. The player who finished in third really lost his cool, telling me a deal is a deal, and calling me a liar for backing out. He threw fuel on the fire by raising his voice and not allowing me to explain myself further, so I simply stated three or four times that I wanted to play it out.
I had the chip lead within 35 minutes of commencing heads up play. The host offered to split the money fifty-fifty.
Seeing no long term gain, I took the deal.
(There is a 2x pay jump between first place and second place.)
WTF?? is my question.
