$3 rebuy on Stars

Hey guys, i recently posted this on cardplayer.com's forums to see what others thought. I thought i would post it here also

Hey guys, Unfortunately 7 hours and 35 minutes into the $3 dollar rebuy i just busted out in 6th position, but i won a nice chunk of change. I do have some questions though. The situation is this. We reach the final table and everyone sighs a breath of relief. Bubble play on the 12th, 11th, and 10th finishers was brutal. I was able to pick up blinds and antes off the short stacks and had a nice stack of about 1.2 million in chips. A cool 20 minutes in we had already lost 2 players. The other players were talking about a 7 player chip count chop. I told them i wont guarantee anything, but i will take a look at the numbers. Cards didnt seem to come and at the time i was the 2nd shortest stack with about 1 million in chips. Everyone was guaranteed 7th place money and then would be divided among chips.

Here were the payouts.
1st - $4959.25
2nd - $2930.47
3rd - $1916.08
4th - $1420.15
5th - $1149.65
6th - $901.69
7th - $676.27

Now again as i said, i was 6 of 7 in chips. What was being offered to me was $1525.64 or a little more than 4th place. I was only $9 dollars deep in this thing. So $1500 is a nice net from what i paid to play. Then i looked at what was going on at the table. Everyone was talking about how tired they were and how they would just like to chop after this amount of time playing, etc etc. I told everyone i would like $2k or we can keep playing. Surprisingly i was the only one who objected to chopping. Everyone was grumbling. What contributed to making my decision was for a couple of different reasons.

1) The table has already stated they were tired and didnt want to play, hence they are probably going to play bad or worse than their "A' game.

2) The player directly to my left was an extremely (and i mean extremely, you'll see) loose aggressive player. With blinds as high as they are, i figured i can get some nice pots off of him.

3) Most likely other people are going to go out and ill upgrade pay levels.

4) Again the +EV i could be getting on my $9 fee in a rebuy was incredibly too good to pass up.

5) Im playin to win.

With everything stated, i told support we can play on. So we started and a player was knocked out shortly there after. While had passed and i was the shortstack when i caught the extremely loose player trying to steal(well who knows with this guy). Hand below. So i guess luck wasnt on my side for that hand. That was the 2nd hand of 24 that i had lost when showing a hand down to the river. So instead of $1525 i netted $901 Please dont gauge the hand history as the topic of this conversation. I'm more interested on the chop discussion more than anything else. As i said i play to win and i dont regret my decision. With all those facts, what do you do?

Deal or No deal?

PokerStars Game #5004124173: Tournament #24673738, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVII (40000/80000) - 2006/05/21 - 03:36:39 (ET) Table '24673738 82' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: nicktg18 (2087081 in chips)
Seat 2: trixter23 (783480 in chips)
Seat 5: kasin (3419778 in chips)
Seat 6: anticon (1232126 in chips)
Seat 7: chansmaster (941016 in chips)
Seat 9: lilsewon (3307519 in chips)
nicktg18: posts the ante 4000
trixter23: posts the ante 4000
kasin: posts the ante 4000
anticon: posts the ante 4000
chansmaster: posts the ante 4000
lilsewon: posts the ante 4000
nicktg18: posts small blind 40000
trixter23: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [6h Ad]
kasin: folds
anticon: folds
chansmaster: folds
lilsewon: folds
anticon said, "yes"
nicktg18: raises 2003081 to 2083081 and is all-in
trixter23: calls 699480 and is all-in
nicktg18 said, "uh oh"
*** FLOP *** [Ts 5s Qh]
lilsewon said, "lets gooo"
anticon said, "i was under trixter"
*** TURN *** [Ts 5s Qh] [As]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 5s Qh As] [Qs]
nicktg18 said, "gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
nicktg18: shows [4h 9s] (a flush, Ace high)
trixter23: shows [6h Ad] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
lilsewon said, "oooooo"
lilsewon said, "snap"
nicktg18 collected 1582960 from pot
nicktg18 said, "chop guys?"
anticon said, "wow gg trix"
nicktg18 said, "chop?"
*** SUMMARY *** Total pot 1582960
Rake 0 Board [Ts 5s Qh As Qs]
Seat 1: nicktg18 (small blind) showed [4h 9s] and won (1582960) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: trixter23 (big blind) showed [6h Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 5: kasin folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: anticon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: chansmaster folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: lilsewon (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)