[suzzer99]

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Lee only does 'suggestions' based on chip-counts because that is what many players prefer.

Lee does not 'make' deals in any tourneys.
If the players WANT to chop based on chip-percentage than Lee will do that for them.


You can even e-mail Stars about this and they will tell you the same thing.

Lee and Stars are VERY careful to make sure everyone agrees to the terms before the deal is official and finalized.


Lee has never and will never force a deal on anyone...and I would be VERY surprised if he even recommended a deal.

He might start by saying 'heres how it would work as a direct percentage of chips if you're interested' or something like that.
Otherwise, the players are responsible for doing it (as it should be).


That's how deal-making works...including on stars.

I saw a live-tourney with 4 players remaining.
Large-stack had about 55% of the chips.
The 3 others each had 15% of the chips
They evenly split the prize-money 4 ways.
That's not the fault of the tourney-director. That's the fault of the idiot who was the chip-leader.

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First he offered to do it all or let them do it. Then xx31xx went away and after 3 minutes(!) came back with the %53/%47 number. The Lee offered again to chop based on that %, and *incorrectly* assigned it to the entire prize pool, instead of just the difference between 1st and 2nd. Yes the players agreed on it, and McGinn should have called him on it. But McGinn seemed just happy to be there and not exactly a rhodes scholar.

I'm not saying Lee is culpable and I have no vendetta against him whatsoever. I play on PS and love it, and I don't have a big problem with them not taking all ZJ's money. I just don't like seeing mistakes like that. It bugs me that that can happen at the highest levels and no one catches it. Sorry to hijack btw.