The Fail

Keeping my abarone trend, I'm stickin with these 'The' titles. I had my first experience in Full Tilt final table deal making. That (not sure how) new deal making thing they have where they bring up ICM or chip count or whatever form of splitting the prize money is kinda interesting. So when we were 5 handed (just a 3r, nuthin fancy) these guys wanted to deal. 5 handed had been going extremely long. I was all in only 2x, winning both, but everyone else kept recycling chips by outdrawing each other left and right. It lasted over 1.5 hrs before they started talking a deal.

Since I had a raise in the pot from utg when they all hit deal (4/5 it displays) I said "if you fold I deal" thinking it was funny. So they did. Awesome. Next hand I posted my BB, and they paused again, asking me if I'd deal. I then noticed that if they walked me I'd get the slight chip lead which means most money at deal, so I said, "walk me and we deal." Woot, free pot.

So we go to the deal page, and this is when I learned how much Full Tilt sucks. The fancy number-filled page (which includes a chat box to discuss the deal) pops up with an additional mini screen that shows who gets what dollar amount and accept/reject button. BUT YOU CAN'T DISCUSS THE DEAL IN CHAT! Everytime you try, it gives you that annoying windows/vista beep sound when you can't access something you are trying to click. So how are you suppose to discuss a deal, if you can't say anything? So I hit reject, to try and type to the other players. I get half a sentence in before the accept/reject window pops up and I'm restricted from typing again! Grrrr, this really pisses me off.

Eventually someone else hit decline and we went back to the game. The only reason I considered dealing was because 5 handed had been going so long it had turned into 10x stacks. And even though clearly that's beneficial for me in terms of knowing what to do, we all know how cruel variance can be. 5th was 1k, first was 4.1k, 2nd was 2.6k, and the deal would have given me 2.5k. So it's like locking up 2nd place for sure. But ldo, 3 hands later I bust in 5th, gg gtfo.

Cliffs:
1. Discussing deals means you should have the option to discuss.
2. Deals are for idiots (unless life changing money).
3. I'm an idiot.
4. Fail.