Do you accept?
 

Roughly 150 Players left and this happens:

Chop Chop?
Kevin Nathan is traveling around the Amazon Room right now, asking all of the players if they want to chop. Currently, each player, if chopped, could walk away with $500,000. Needless to say, Nathan's request was unsuccessful.


Do you Accept the chop?

I thought the WSOP Main Event did not allow deals to be made?

i really do not know they would allow it. You are guaranteed 500,000, but if you were to go out next in line i think you are only payed out around 47k. Although the risk of not even making it to half a million is bigger than passing the half million mark, i still do not think i would chop.

No. Two reasons.

1) The TD probably wouldn't allow it
2) no way 150 people agree

Therefore I don't want other folks hearing me say yes and taking shots at me because they think I'm playing scared.

Not only No, but Hell No! Sure, a guaranteed $500K would be nice, but as Kurn mentioned, probably no way in hell would Harrah's allow it. In addition, I'm already pretty deep in the field and have made a pretty decent profit thus far (unless you did something incredibly silly earlier on in the WSOP like rebuy 48 times in the $1000 rebuy). I'm guessing that not only have I covered my expenses, I've made enough to put a BIG dent in the mortgage I have at home. So nope, no deal.

Daniel during the WSOP was quoted as to saying he wish the ME only paid 9 spots...

I think he said 40 mill for 1st, 20 mill for 2nd... something along those lines.

Anyways the point is that I think you should be playing to win and nothing more.

500K is nice but if I busted at 150th and won 40K, I could live with that.

OK, I added a part 2 of this poll in another thread.
Obviously this is not the direction I meant for this thread to take, But It's interesting none the less.

Agreed.... it would never be allowed and it would be impossible to get everyone to do it, so it's pointless to even try. So I'd have to say No.

I wonder how many chips this guy had left....

Not that I'm the resident Main Event expert here, (ahem, TP), but I'd be willing to bet that everyone who's still alive believes he or she has a shot at winning the whole thing, big chip stack or not. And while $500,000 is nice, you don't play in the ME for a shot at half a mil. You play for the whole thing. For the people willing to invest either their money, time or both to play in this (and knowing they're already good for 50K if they bust now), I'd have to think they'd gladly risk that extra 450K for a shot at the riches.

Now, if this were a tournament where only the top 20 or so places cashed, then ... maybe that's another story.