[mlagoo]

So a friend of mine runs a tournament at his house probably once every few weeks, buyin typically between $20 and $50.

Anyway, at this particular tournament (was a $10 R+A), we had got down to the final four players, one of whom had to leave very badly. He had a gig that night, or something, and had to go.

The problem was he had accumulated about 200,000 of the 300,000 chips in play. He was the dominant chip leader by a MILE. I was playing at the final table, and basically what had happened was he had adopted a "get rich or get broke" strategy (knowing that he had to leave soon), calling allins with ridiculous hands and sucking out like a madman.

So, finally we're down to 4, and he's at a point where he really has to leave. First, he wanted his friend that was there to "sub in" for him. All of us that were at the table were not happy with that, and the guy who was running the game also thought that was absurd, so it got vetoed.

Their second idea was to give him something like second place money and have us divvy up the rest of the prize pool accordingly.

Of course, what the three of us remaining players wanted to do was blind the dude off and keep playing poker, guarenteed 3rd or better money.

FWIW, the payouts were something like $60 for 4th, $120 for 3rd, $255 for 2nd and $455 for 1st.


What is the right ruling on the part of the guy who was running the game?