pkrfce9 wrotesome people think he is the second coming of chan
I no longer actively play in that tournament, but after seeing pkrfce9 qualify for the Tournament of Champions with 2-3, the "second coming of Jackie Chan" :D decided to come out of retirement and take on Mr. "back-to-back" Ka-Ching Hill himself. We ended up as the two biggest stacks on the final three.
There were approximately 460,000 chips in play. My recollection is that after doubling up against the 4th place finisher and doing his Booyashaka dance, :o pkrfce9 had ~250K chips, I had ~125K and the last remaining female had ~85K chips. The three of us talked about splitting up the prize pool:
1st - $640 + T.O.C. seat worth at least $100
2nd - $360
3rd - bubble prize of free buy-in for the next tournament worth ~$70.
pkrfce9 wanted $500 cash, I wanted the T.O.C. seat included, the lady wanted an even 3-way split, and nobody really wanted the bubble prize. We couldn't come to an agreement. I didn't mind to keep playing, since I believed that I had a skills advantage over the short stack and a deal would be easier to make when it got down to heads-up.
Using an Independent Chip Model calculator, my tournament equity was ~$364. In hindsight, I should have asked for the exact chip counts and at least offer a deal based on the Landrum-Burns or Proportional Chip Count Formula. I would have accepted an offer of ~$260 cash plus the T.O.C. seat.
I was the player who min-raised, so I will wait for others to reply before I make my comments on this and a similar tournament-deciding hand.