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LongshanksED:
Local casino has started doing freerolls of sorts!

£2 entry fee but you get 1500 chips and can get an add on or rebuy at the 1st break for £20 and another 5000 chips   Seems to get good numbers on these nights and last night was 90 players. Managed to get a healthy stack in the mid stages and glad I did as I went totally card dead and had to fold my way to final table with average stack of 60k and blinds at 4k/8k

top 9 get paid but it"s a 10 man FT and apart from 1 who had 120k in chips we all sat between 50 and 65k when someone suggested we all take £200 each (prize pool was £2040 and £700 for 1st, 4th place pay out was £190) everyone agreed but I suggested we tale £150 each and have a shootout for the final £500 but no one liked that as most of them only paid the £2 fee which I found hard to believe and they liked bring offered more than 4th place money. Tbh I was gunning for at least a 4th place finish anyway to make the payout  semi worthwhile but also didn"t fancy going out in 10th for nada or 9th for £30

would you have taken the deal at this crapshoot stage?

deanp27:
only if i had wanted to go to bed

MintTrav:
Let me put it like this - No!

If you fancy yourself against the table and you"re well-placed in chips, why give it away? I generally hate deals (or giving something to the bubble) and always refuse either unless there it is an overwhelming reason to agree to it. They seem to me to be the antithesis of tournament poker where the concept is to beat the others to a pulp and then all of a sudden at the FT people get all wimpy and want to lock up something at the expense of a possible bigger win. I see people taking the safe option all the time instead of backing themselves to take it down - don"t understand it. Fair enough if you"re very deep for megabucks against some really tough players but, in your local casino, you are probably one of the better players, so why not back yourself? In the instance you give - a 10-handed deal - you"re having a laugh. I wouldn"t have given them the option you did but if they wouldn"t accept your proposal, I hope you made them play on.

Swinebag:
No deal. Too many of these players fold there way onto the ft to get deals like this. They are very exploitable in what is now basically an online stt. Use your edge and take it down!

cincicrappykid:
BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH 2 IN THE BUSH

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