Oh and I flagged first.

Interesting question. And quite to my shock, I don't have the answer.

I suspect chloe might know...

She knows everything.

If it has to do with order of moves, like if it's my turn before the other flagger so I flag out...

then that's just stupid

Hmmm....
They might want to.. I dont know... FIGHT FOR IT?

It might be just that simple, but I honestly don't know.

assuming you got third- it probably is moves (based on your experience) which i agree is stupid. imo it should be dice. but this is why you attack like crazy the round before that so you have more land than the other guy :)

we should try that, set up a 0 table get everyone to flag for 2 but leave them with one land then have the big person in first lag out and see what order they finish.

my guess, they just go in order of turns?

flagging for 2nd wouldnt work chase. flagging for 6th would. then have 1st lag out.

same thing happened in gpokr btw. in a tourney once, i was the 2nd shortest stack, and top 3 paid out. short stack went allin preflop, largest stack went allin behind him, and i was looking at QQ. thought fuck it, if largest stack beats me, so be it, but im way ahead of the short stack range, so at worst i get eliminated but still finish ahead of him since im going into this hand with the largest stack. (its a standard tourney rule in all casinos, online and off, that if 2 people get eliminated in same hand, whoever had the larger stack going in places higher than the person who had the shorter stack). anyways, largest stack flipped over AK, short stack flipped over 88. largest stack spiked a king, no 8s or Qs though, so i beat the short stack. yay, 3rd place and a payout for me!

nope.

short stack magically got the 3rd place payout, and i was left with $0 for 4th. wtf.