Bay 101 Final Table - I need to be flamed (LC)

Final table of the Tuesday Rebuy/Add-on tourney. $50 buyin, $20 rebuys, $20 add-ons. 90 players, 250 rebuys, 80 add-ons. First pays about $3200 and bubble is at 10 which pays $200.

When it down to 11 players, I had the BB with blinds at 2000/4000. After posting, I had 5 chips (t5000) behind. UTG pushes all-in 8 chips and it's folded to me with K3o. It's 4 more chips to call with me getting 3 to 1 but I hate my cards. I call anyway and UTG turns over AJo. Flop is KQJ but the turn and river bricks and MHIG.

Bubble boy is pissed but everyone else at the table thought my call is good. Two table break and are reshuffled into the final table.

I then proceed to go on a tear and suckout twice with TT vs QQ (I catch a four flush on the board) and AJo vs KQo (I again catch a four flush with the Ace nut flush). With the blinds I've stolen along the way, I'm now at t85,000...chip leader with 1/3 of the chips in play.

However, blinds are now 5000/10,000. Five players left. The two shorties are on my left and right with about 30k apiece. Opposite me are a couple of rocks with about 50k each. The BB is about to hit me when one of the shorties ask about a 5-way chop. Lloyd the TD does some quick math and it works out to about $1566 apiece. This would be my biggest money in a tourney and I think that 2nd place money sounds pretty good. I have the big stack but with 5k/10k blinds, I only have 8BB's (7 BB's after posting the big and small) and think this can quickly become a crapshoot.

One of the rocks across the way says he wants the jacket that comes with first. I say I should get it since I have the bigger stack. He says no and I say let's play.

The shorty on my left says he'll buy the rock a jacket if we chop ($50 bucks). Rock says okay but thinks I'm getting ripped off.

We all agree but then I start to think the rock is right. Should I have held out for more or waited until it got down to 3 or 4 before we talked deal? I think I was suffering from "happy to be here" syndrome and need a decent flaming from the regulars.

John [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]