[mlagoo]

ok great. i guess we all felt bad... we ended up kicking in an extra $100 to him (in addition to the 4th place finish), and then playing for the rest of the prize pool.

it would have been different, i guess, if the chips were split more evenly... but he was such a dominant chipleader that we felt bad.

the bad news is i ended up winning the tournament and winning a bit less because we gave him some money. i guess that makes this a bad beat post =) we just weren't sure what was the ethically "right" thing to do.


the other consideration we had was that this guy and his friends were all HUGE fish, and we wanted them to come back for the next few tournaments. meh.