I have only one thought on Bryn Kenney awarded Aussie Millions Main Event title after a three way deal.... Players can do whatever they want at final tables.


fyi...

Stars does this right and facilitates chops and discussions.

WSOP and WPT do this all wrong and don't.

But yeah, something needs to be held back to play it out for if streamed or televised,

Bryn is lol’ing at you while he sips from the trophy

Again, there’s absolutely no way the deal wasn’t approved. You have 3 players with chips, and a trophy. The only way that one of those 3 players gets awarded that trophy is by the tournament declaring a winner and that’s impossible to do without approving the chop.

In tournaments that don’t approve chops, like the WSOP, players do it anyway and then “play” it out. That has led to some funny live reporting in the past like “player A bets 100000 preflop, player B calls, leaving himself a single chip behind. A goes all-in on the flop, B folds”. There was a WPT (?) thread about an event in Canada about that last year.

Pictures where your belly hits the edge of the table in a very unflattering manner happen to the best of us..

They weren't running a marathon. They were sitting in chairs making minimal movements with their hands. We've all stayed up many more hours, playing for a lot less money.

Poker is just like any other sport or competition. At the Superbowl in the middle of the 4th quarter the players were tired, so they stopped playing and the team with less points negotiated a deal which declared them the winners.

Negotiating a chop is part of the tournament. Bryn took first but maybe didnt negotiate as good as the Mike? Bryn probably could/should have won this outright?!?, gave up some equities/cash to lock up the win.

Its not collusion who ever said that is off base, they all have self defined interests, so unless there was a massive prop-bet on Bryn to win or something insane there is almost ever ZERO chance of collusion.

Congrats to all parties involved, chops are good, reduce long term variance and increase your hourly brouhaha.

They all paid the service fee to play, they can do what they want with the cash. you are not all entitled to a fairly tale ending every time.

Mike had position on Bryn 3 handed though so he actually gave up tons of theoretical equity even though he got ICM.

Bryn just made a solid deal. He got the throphy and more money then ICM indicated, lol.

Bad work from the floor to agree with a deal that includes no more play for the win....
I don't get why Bryn gets so much heat from this, he just maximized his value.

pretty much this

All 3 players had the chance to win the trophy and be champion.
Two players decided to sell that chance.
Well played bryn,enjoy your win and your trophy.

play to win

or don't play at all

i dont give a crap about buying a win but what does pokershares do in instances like this?

what about when Caesar's takes bets on the wsop main event final table. i know in recent memory no one has purposely lost, but i would for sure lose if the person offered me $1mm

By the way it's obvious for so many reasons nobody who enters the tournament and doesn't have sidebets has any obligation to take other peoples sidebets like pokershares into consideration. No sympathy for anyone feeling sad after not getting paid because of negotiations like these.

Yep, what happened seems wierd for a big tourney

Fish like to chop a lot more than the pros not sure about that.

Great post!

I have run a marathon and I hope to do it again soon. I have also played a lot of long MTTs, both live and online. I like my poker deepstacked (no turbos allowed.)

I can't imagine just quitting an MTT or a marathon, especially if I'm in line for a prize, or a bigger prize than I have already locked up. In both cases, hanging in there as long as it takes is part of the deal. Quitting is just wrong.

I want the trophy, and someday I want my grandchildren to see me win a trophy or a pile of cash on TV. (There are Heartland Poker stops in or near my state.)

your grandkids won't give a **** about some stupid luckbox poker trophy

I was very easily impressed by my grandparents stuff when I was a kid..

If I am in second place in my age group at mile 20 of a marathon and they offer to cancel the race and award me first (while splitting the price, which means like $50 in gift cards) and the trophy, I’ll take that happily and put it next to the other ones without an asterisk.

i think the trophy does matter a lot more for brynn vs mike D cause brynn is pushing a poker site. although the trophy could have helped mike towards some random poker sponsorship moreso than chopping

1. Pokershares ( they award based on final finishing position that gets reported )
2. Sidebets
3. Sponsorship

There you go. Problem solved why someone would negotiate a trophy. If Aussie Mills allowed it then it's within the rules and GG to everyone.

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