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Final Table Deal Making by Linda Johnson
I've been on an abnormally good tournament run lately and made three final tables in three days. Two of them involved some interesting deal making, which I will describe in this blog. When we got to the final table in the Ladies No Limit event at the Oklahoma State Championship of Poker at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa, the players were interested in making a deal and asked me to propose something. They were paying five places and the total prize pool was a little over $14,000. With ten players left, here were the approximate chip counts: Four players were in the 80,000 to 110,000 range, one player had about 45,000, one player had about 40,000, and four players had between 15,000 and 25,000. I like to propose deals that are fair to everyone, so without taking time to do any math, I suggested that a simple solution would be to give the four chip leaders $1,000 each, give the next two stacks $600 each, and give the short stacks $400 each. That way, no one would walk away without making at least a little money (the buy-in was $340) for their ten hours of play. That also would leave more ...
Gretchen April 5th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
enjoyable read – entertaining and informative…