So I watched Egption on twitch yesterday as he came in second in the Sunday Million. Watched the final two tables and the eventual deal followed by quick bust outs by the 3rd player then Egption. Player who won had Standard Backing badge. The player lftgjc has 5$ avg. buy-in and is a break even maybe slight winning player.
It's not that I don't think it is possible for a micro donk to have an amazing run and a few key suck-outs to propel him to a once in a lifetime score it was that his game play was superb and far advance beyond what you would expect from a 5$ grinder. When it came time to deal he turned down and even chop when he was only giving up 3k to lock up a 107k score.
With the new deal making option pokerstars has put in place no chat or moderator is able to work out swaps that might make deal making easier. Egiption emailed pokerstars to have a moderator come to help facilitate a deal, this happened but only after a few hands had been played that went in favor of lftgjc. At this point the icm number had moved and a deal was struck for Egiption and Alin76poker (the 3rd place finisher to each get over 100k. Egiption negotiated for more and then lftgjc negotiated for 1.2k more so that Alin76poker got an even 100k. The negotiating was tough and something you wouldn't expect from a low level player.
After Egiption eventually busted and some other members of his house (also twitch streams AllinPav the only one I know) talked a little bit about the signs of the backed player being ghosted before muting the sound.
I play recreationally but have been playing for sometime. It is obvious to me when I get deep into a tournament with a few K uptop which players are comfortable and have experience deep in tournaments. I play on ignition so I don't have the benefit of sharkscope. I will post and link to the tournament results so you can see for yourself.
https://www.sharkscope.com/#Find-Tou...nts/2412479908
I am not a person who gets involved in the NVG drama and wants to out every person who I think might be cheating without hard evidence.
To be honest I was really surprised not to find a thread already about this as over 3k people watched the stream and Egiption was pretty adamant about what he thought was happening.
I guess I'm wondering if people have just accepted this as standard practice like Russian bots and really don't think that this is thread worthy. I know I have seen other streams in which players have openly suggested that people they were on the table with were being ghosted. I thought that when it happens at the final table of the biggest tournament of the week it would have gotten some attention from the community but I have not been able to find any mention of it in this form nor the MTT community of Twitch forums.
If there is already a thread please feel free to merge it with the existing one. If I am outline by posting this the moderators can feel free to remove it.