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[KoRnholio]

So here's the deal:You're playing in a $3,000 freeroll tournament with just 22 entrants. You've been playing about an hour, doing quite well, and are sitting on the biggest stack with 7 players left (11k with the average stack at 5k). Payouts are $1600 for first, $900 for second and $600 for third. Blinds are 200-400 with 50 ante and about to go up. You have a pretty good read on these mostly passive/weak-tight players and figure you have a great chance to take it down. With how passive everyone is being, it could well take another 45 minutes before it's all over.While you're in your apartment on the 26th floor playing this tournament, your building's fire alarm goes off. You take a second to think and realize that if you just sat out now, you most surely would not make the money. So my questions are: How long would you keep playing for? What would need to happen (ie, hearing sirens, smelling smoke, seeing fire..) before you decided to start the run down 25 flights of stairs?Edit: spelling skills are lacking

[BudBundy]

i d keep playing untill a fireman drags me out of my aparmtnent

[farmist]

look outside and see if people are running / crying / burning, etcThen make ur decision

[BudBundy]

wait a min you are the matt from crypto? say hi to chippy from me!

[BudBundy]

farmist, on Friday, June 8th, 2007, 12:31 AM, said:

look outside and see if people are running / crying / burning, etcThen make ur decision

so he still has a decision to make after that scene

[James D]

lol.. this is so specific, and random.so, is this actually happening to you now?

[doox]

Call someone who doesn't suck, and ask them to take over for me while I run to their house.

[vbnautilus]

Well this is a basic burn-odds question. So if you are giving up first place you have to be sure that the fire will cause at least $1600 in damages to your domicile. Requires some quick calculations of the value of your possesions (e.g. which things are non-replaceable and therefore have more inherent value -- note that many body parts are replaceable for the right price). If your position in the tourney is declining as the fire damage increases you are in bad shape and should probably get out.

[SteveR]

have you played with fire before? is it capable of making a big bluff? try staring it down and getting a read, then make your decision.

[BudBundy]

SteveR, on Friday, June 8th, 2007, 12:35 AM, said:

have you played with fire before? is it capable of making a big bluff? try staring it down and getting a read, then make your decision.

dude fire is hoti d hit it

[pokerinc]

go wet some towels down and sit them next to you. When the smoke start wrap one around your head, use the others for doorknobs/ handling the mouse.Also I'd grab my scuba mask for eyesight. This way you're set for an escape if things are bad, most likely it's a false alarm anyway.

[TB17]

Thank god for laptops

[Highlow16]

pokerinc, on Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:41 PM, said:

go wet some towels down and sit them next to you. When the smoke start wrap one around your head, use the others for doorknobs/ handling the mouse.Also I'd grab my scuba mask for eyesight. This way you're set for an escape if things are bad, most likely it's a false alarm anyway.

winner!

[Potsie P]

Let's assume your place is ablaze, and as farmist puts it, "people are burning." You're an upcoming internet poker pro, which means you a) probably live in a sh*thole apartment, and 2) have little to nothing else of value besides your laptop, your Wii and some random sports memorabilia you got signed by whathisnface--in other words, stuff that's replaceable or ain't worth a lick to anyone besides you. IF THIS IS YOUR CASE...Grab whatever useless crap you can carry with you. Run outside and cross the street to another craphole apartment complex, and offer $20 to anyone who'll rent you his internet connection for an hour. Preferably, you end up with a window apartment, so you can watch the firemen toss the last bucket on the smoldering rubble of that apartment you hated anyway, and smiling as you take down the FREEROLL and contemplate your renter's insurance claim and a lawsuit against your landlord who refused to put a properly working bulb in the lamp down there in the dingy lobby.OR...You are more than an upcoming internet poker pro, which means you have a nice pad, and nice things. The place is ablaze, so you run out, pointing at your apartment and screaming, "There's a BABY up there!" You watch as the firemen go to save your Sharper Image massage chair and IKEA couches first, then head across the street to chat up a young blonde who's watching the action. "Sure," she says, "you can use my Internet, but only if you give me a huggle." You head up, finish the tourney, take it down, discover the firemen were only able to save one apartment--yours--despite not finding any child (to which you reply, "Sh*t, my ex has her tonight, but thanks anyway!") and then make good on that huggle, Captain.(Seriously, I can't believe some of you posters who still need the obvious spelled out for you like this.)

[KoRnholio]

'BudBundy' date='Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:31 PM' post='1937367']wait a min you are the matt from crypto? say hi to chippy from me!Yep, that's me 'James D' date='Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:33 PM' post='1937371']lol.. this is so specific, and random.so, is this actually happening to you now?lol, yes it was. I put off writing this post until after it was all over (my life or tournament, whichever).'doox' date='Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:34 PM' post='1937373']Call someone who doesn't suck, and ask them to take over for me while I run to their house.Good idea, but all my friends that I would trust with my account are terrible.

vbnautilus, on Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:35 PM, said:

Well this is a basic burn-odds question. So if you are giving up first place you have to be sure that the fire will cause at least $1600 in damages to your domicile. Requires some quick calculations of the value of your possesions (e.g. which things are non-replaceable and therefore have more inherent value -- note that many body parts are replaceable for the right price). If your position in the tourney is declining as the fire damage increases you are in bad shape and should probably get out.

This was my thought process afterwards. Chance of the fire alarm being a real fire ~20 to 1. Chance that spending an extra 45 minutes (if the building is actually burning) will cause bodily harm/death, maybe 200 to 1. So really a 4000-1 shot that this is a really, really, bad idea.EV of the tournament at this point... About $700 for me (with about 1/4 of the chips in play). Is my life/health worth more than $2.8 million (4000 x $700)? I didn't think so

SteveR, on Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:35 PM, said:

have you played with fire before? is it capable of making a big bluff? try staring it down and getting a read, then make your decision.

I definitely read it as a bluff

TB17, on Thursday, June 7th, 2007, 1:42 PM, said:

Thank god for laptops

Indeed. Living just off campus means there was probably wireless internet floating around somewhere too...

[finztotheleft]

You have to get a laptop ASAP