[Wongboy]

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I haven't played in many live tournaments. But I've seen and heard about some amazingly bad deals.

One was with 4 players remaining. The chip-leader covered the other 3 guys combined.
He had maybe 60% of the chips while the other 3 had perhaps 15-18% each.
They chopped evenly 4 ways.

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One of my rare deals, I was chip leader and there were 7 players left (50 entrants, paid 3 places). 2 of the shorter stacks kept pushing for a deal and had been doing so since the FT started. I finally said, "OK, I have 30% of the chips, so I'll take 30% of the prize pool". They quickly agreed, and split the rest evenly despite the fact that the #2 chip stack had three times as many chips as the lowest chip stack.

I was happy with 2nd place money, but I did feel sort of bad for the #2 guy who was obviously not very skilled at making a deal.