pkrfce9;370761 wroteHaving a bubble prize does not have to be a unanimous decision.
Any agreement that excludes one or more active players is considered improper, but if that chip leader does not mind the other players donating to the bubble boy, they can still do so. For some reason, the shortest stacks usually give up as soon as the chip leader declines to donate.
compuease;370760 wroteMy take on this is only from my experience around smaller local tournaments, can't imagine it ever taking place in bigger casino tournaments.
As I posted before, it's the other way around! If players get scared in a $80 buy-in that they auto donate money to the bubble boy, it happens even more with bigger tournaments and close to life-changing money at stake. At WPT Fallsview, it was a $5,000 prize OR zero on the super satellite bubble when players that couldn't handle the pressure had desperately wanted to have a bubble boy prize. At the WSOP Main Event Mega Satellite, I think it was millionaire pro Scott Clements who was threatened to be thrown out for collecting money from whomever was scared enough to donate to his bubble boy prize. At the Canadian Poker Tour Championship with ~$5,000 buy-in, I remember forking over a bunch of cash for the bubble boy, who turned out to be WSOP multiple bracelet winner Dan Idema.
