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Originally Posted by Alizona
Many players thanked me afterwards which made me feel good. I most assuredly understand variance and I didn't want to be the "greedy bad guy" but it worked out ok.
At CAZ tho I just didn't feel right by saying "no, I don't agree, let's play it out." One lesson I DID learn is to push hard with two tables left and steal all the blinds you can... because coming into the FT with a short stack didn't matter... but coming in with the largest stack did - in a big way. Live and learn.
The MTT regulars in this area are absolutely addicted to chopping. Frankly if you are decent at playing MTT poker, its not in your benefit to allow these big and flat chops.
I remember once at the Fort back when I played MTT's... They were running a rebuy, I think it was $40 with unlimited rebuys for $20 and a $20 add-on at the end of 3 levels. It was a Friday night and there were like 80-90 runners... Get back from the rebuy break, play a level, and are down to like ~40 players and some guy starts yelling to stop the action on the tables, "STOP THE CLOCK!".
Why? Because he wanted to propose a chop... Worst part, several players agreed that we should stop and figure out a chop...
Lucky the floor wouldn't have any of it.
Some of the crap I have seen is border line collusion frankly. Many of the regulars are the same people that get it down to just them and maybe one or two "outsiders" and they pressure them to chop. I have actually had people say about me when they did not know I was in hear shot... "knock him out at all costs, he doesn't chop, make sure you get him". Pretty damn hard to prove and nearly impossible to stop...