First time playing in local friendly tournament. Tournament has no rake, friendly & very bad players.
Official Payout is
1st - $610
2nd - $295
Player 1 - 5% chips
Player 2 - 30% Chips
Player 3 - 30% Chips
Hero - 35% Chips (Me)
Players start to discuss a bubble deal, Player 1 (5% chips) suggest both 3rd and 4th place should be paid, Player 2 & 3 both agree that only 3rd place should be paid and we should play down to 4th. Being friendly, I say that I am ok with anything near ICM.
The very next hand, three way all in between hero player 1 and player 3. I bust both players.
So now,
Player 1 - Busted 4th
Player 2 - 30%
Player 3 - Busted 3rd
Hero - 70%
At this point, player 3 states that he should get money for busting 3rd.
Most of the regulars agree. Player 1 disagrees and said that clearly no deal has been made. The house comes over and said it is my call to make and usually 3rd place (bubble) always gets some money and this double bust out has never happened before.
After discussions, I ended up reluctantly agreeing (not wanting to piss anyone off at a friendly, no rake game) to giving 3rd $60 out of the prize pool. I also ended up making a deal to take $500 to not play it out with the remaining player.
Just curious, what your thoughts are on this? Does this happen at your friendly tournaments? Would you have agreed to give 3rd place money.