double elimination in final 3 rule question

[EvilSteve]

Big stack minraises on the button, I'm in the small blind with JJ and push, big blind who has slightly less chips than me and has generally been playing like a monkey calls with Q2. Button calls with AK, he hits an ace, the end. Since I have the big blind monkey outchipped I take second. But, what if my stack had been equal to the monkey's stack, who takes second then? Or do we evenly split 2nd and 3rd place prize money?

[suzzer99]

No one knows...

[EvilSteve]

So what you're saying is I could make pokerstars explode this way?

[suzzer99]

If not the entire internet.

[EvilSteve]

Well as it turns out, the amazing foresight of Lee Jones has saved the internet from this catastrophic threat. From the pokerstars tournament rules:

5. If two or more players are eliminated on the same hand, the player with more chips at the beginning of the hand is placed higher. If players started the hands with an identical amount of chips, both players tie for that rank, and any prizes due to those players will be equally distributed between them. During hand-for-hand play (as described in rule #20 below), two players eliminated during a single "synchronized" hand are treated as having been eliminated on the same hand, even if they are at different tables.

Yeah I'm lazy, I could have looked this up for myself before posting.

[suzzer99]

Yeah but know we all know. And I for one have always wondered. And wtf is going on with your avatar?

[EvilSteve]

Its Benny Hinn. He's got amazing powers against demons that could have taken him to superstardom in the pro wrestling world, but instead he heals people in the name of Jesus.

[suzzer99]

His restaurants are a lot of fun too. I like it when they flip the shrimp across the table into my mouth.