WCOOP is LAME when deals are made

[thetman]

I'm not a big enough player to participate yet, but all the deal making is lame if you ask me. An otherwise great tourney gets down to 4,5 or whatever and then the players decide to quit and split the money. PokerStars needs to outlaw deals next year and give the events some integrity.

[thetman]

I'm not even saying I wouldn't do one.

[durron597]

What I think is even more lame is kingori threw away the solid chip position when there was no longer any money on the table.

[thetman]

Yep, no intergrity to the conclusion tonight at all!

[Atropos]

Well he said several times he was in a hurry and would get late to work. I can fully understand that playing for bracelet is not worth losing his job for him.

[z32fanatic]

I would definitely make a deal. If I was comfortable playing heads up for $80k, I would play those stakes. When you get to the final 5 of a WCOOP event, I'll enjoy watching you not take a deal and play it out. The deal between the final 7 players in one of the events was clearly advantageous to everyone. 3 of the players were getting 2nd place money. Who could pass up a 2nd place finish with 7 players left if many of you are close in chips?

[The Ocho]

Deal-making does not ruin the integrity of an event. Sure, it does ruin viewing pleasure of the railbirds, but that is not what an event is designed for. The event is there so that players can make money, and I believe the players are entitled to do whatever they want with said money.

Poker is not a spectator sport. Players do not play for your enjoyment.

Integrity of an event comes from how well it is run, the structure, caliber of players, etc. Not how players divvy up the top prizes amongst themselves.

[davidross]

I won't argue with what you said, but I love to see an event where someone (Daniel Negreanu for example) just says no to the deal. There is a real art to being able to close out a tournament, and this is the only time where individual decisions are made for life changing amounts of money. I think this is what big money poker is about. I wish they would ban deals too.

[Tosh]

I wish they would ban them as well, mainly because I nearly always take them.
1) Because its the safe option.
2) I feel like a jerk if I reject it.

I think I prefer Party not allowing them, at least I know where I stand.

[Sponger15SB]

i just think they need the final table payouts to be flatter, just look at the WCOOP, almost every table a deal has been made.

who wants to play heads up for $60,000? i don't, even if say i had an 80% chance of winning, i'd rather just split the $30,000. its just too much to play for in such a short ammount of time.