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Originally Posted by DaycareInferno
i will never understand live tournament donks. its a mega high variance format (esp in small buyins), and yet they always want to chop, pay bubble, etc, and get super hostile when people don't go along with it. make up your mind.
Given that it's mega high variance, doesn't it make a lot of sense for those who make it to the money plus one to reduce the variance by paying the bubble?. Especially in small stakes tourneys where at the end it's essentially a shovefest of 10-15 BB stacks? Reducing variance is often cited as a legitimate reason for swapping pieces of other people playing in the same tournament and having backers and staking, so don't see why reducing variance in small buyins is so ridiculous.
Obv, getting hostile or even pressing the matter if someone doesn't want to pay the bubble out of line and should be stopped.
Re some other posts, the event in question is a $70 buyin. The person stopping the deal is one of the most famous women poker players of all time. Probably playing with a bunch of local and recreational players, who know who she is. This isn't Bear Jew refusing to pay the button or make a deal in tourney with a $200K first prize. IMO a bit of poker ambassadorship would have been plus EV for poker and for Barbara.