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Originally Posted by borg23
all you're doing is creating another bubble. the fact people ask and in some cases beg for this stupidity is a perfect reason to say no.you can steal tons of chips from people petrified to bust out and who want to play these things for hours on end and then when they actually make a deep run are content with making peanuts.
I would agree with you on most chops, because if there's like 5 people left chopping then makes no sense since you spent all that time and effort to get there then you're throwing away the chance of winning a big ROI. Even more so in a big tourney...I hear about chops at the final table at WPT Deep Stacks events and that makes no sense to me.
However, if it's a small tourney like 37 people, $100 buy in so figure figure around $3,000 in prize fund, if they normally would pay 6 spots and final table wants to pay 7-9th place $100 apiece you're telling me $2,700 vs. $3,000 is really going to radically alter the payouts for 1-6th place? I mean sure it'll change it a little but if it's something that is commonly done at a particular tourney (which it is) then I don't see what's so horrible about it. It's just a chop to guarantee everyone at the final table at least gets their entry back.
Besides, the guy didn't have a huge stack, he had like 20 BBs and it's not like he was good so he had to know he was an underdog to cash.