At dinner last night the subject of last week's article came up. For example, someone with the financial resources might give a good player a set amount of money to capitalize his play. If those two players were sitting in the same game, it could lead to problems, particularly collusion. What do you think happens when one champion has a piece of another and they're both at the final table.
Tournaments usually have a short break before the final table convenes.
You know, of course, that if a couple of people who know each other well are headed for that table, they're going to go off to a corner somewhere and take a piece of each other. Here again you've got a problem if you're not in the loop. Coincidentally, I'd just read an article where one of these women was quoted as saying she never makes deals. The incident didn't sit well with me and, in fact, probably affected my play. See, throughout the play, I tried to be on the alert for anytime these two were in the same pot.