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Most poker players are familiar with the deal making process that can go on at a tournament final table with only a few players remaining. Competitors may make an agreement to flatten out some of the payouts or pay out based on the number of chips each has at the time.
Some players may even set aside a certain portion of the prizepool to play for after the deal is struck. However, two online players turned the traditional player deal on its head last week – not reducing the amount paid for the winner, but instead increasing the cash that the eventual winner would collect.
More Cash For Winner
The unique deal came in a recent mystery bounty tournament at 888poker. With “andrey59” and “yriy3” heads-up for the title, $8,766 was scheduled go to the winner and $6,406 to the runner-up. Both would also collect any bounties accumulated along the way.
However, those wouldn’t be the amounts paid out after a deal was reached. Instead, the two agreed to bump up the first-place prize by almost $2,000 and reduce the second-place payout by the same amount.
Ukraine’s “yriy3” went on to score the win for $10,606 along with another $4,783 in bounties. Brazil’s “andrey59” collected $4,566 for runner-up with another $3,099 in bounties.
The operator later offered some insight on how the unique agreement may have come about.
“888poker has since explained its deal-making software offered both players approximately $4,500 as they had near identical stack sizes,” PokerNews noted. “The suggested deal left $6,038 to play for. Neither player altered this sum, leading to a substantial difference in the payouts once the tournament concluded.”
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