
Bombjack
Legend
Silver Level
Is it worth doing? Anyone do it? How do you work out a fair deal?
I don't play many multi-table tourneys, but a couple of months ago I had nothing better to do on a Saturday morning so entered a $1 buy-in event at Party, with 790 or so entrants. Somehow I got to the final table and there was a deal-making box where you could vote on whether to make a deal or not. Having only about the 7th biggest stack at this point I clicked Yes, as did a few other people. As it panned out I knocked a few of the other stacks out in quick succession and found myself heads-up with two thirds of the chips. At this point the other guy decides he wants to make a deal. Never having really thought about it before I agreed. Partly because heads-up can be a bit random, and partly because it was very difficult to work out how many chips to bet, or how much your opponent has just bet when you have about ten million in front of you. (They should do some kind of currency depreciation at the end of tourneys when the zeros become too long, like the Mexicans creating the Nuevo Peso, to make things clearer imo.)
Can't remember the exact numbers but with no deal it would be something like $180 for 1st and $120 for 2nd place, and we agreed to split something like $160-$140.
I also went away in official 1st place, but it didn't feel quite as good as I suspect it would have done if I'd won it "properly" rather than with a deal.
I don't play many multi-table tourneys, but a couple of months ago I had nothing better to do on a Saturday morning so entered a $1 buy-in event at Party, with 790 or so entrants. Somehow I got to the final table and there was a deal-making box where you could vote on whether to make a deal or not. Having only about the 7th biggest stack at this point I clicked Yes, as did a few other people. As it panned out I knocked a few of the other stacks out in quick succession and found myself heads-up with two thirds of the chips. At this point the other guy decides he wants to make a deal. Never having really thought about it before I agreed. Partly because heads-up can be a bit random, and partly because it was very difficult to work out how many chips to bet, or how much your opponent has just bet when you have about ten million in front of you. (They should do some kind of currency depreciation at the end of tourneys when the zeros become too long, like the Mexicans creating the Nuevo Peso, to make things clearer imo.)
Can't remember the exact numbers but with no deal it would be something like $180 for 1st and $120 for 2nd place, and we agreed to split something like $160-$140.
I also went away in official 1st place, but it didn't feel quite as good as I suspect it would have done if I'd won it "properly" rather than with a deal.