[Jax_Grinder]

Your proposition only holds true until money independent of the prize pool becomes part of the equation.

What if there are two players at the final table from FT? What is their incentive to make their deal "open" to the other players. For that matter, while deals involving the remaining players/prizes are standard, doesn't the issue become blurred when not everyone at the table agrees to the "deal"? In short, IMHO, any time there is a deal among less than all of the players that causes any individual player to act differently with the same holding than they would absent the deal, it is bad for the game (because the factors driving that action are not equal for all players).