Pokerstars - final table deals

[guesswest]

I've noticed in the big events on Pokerstars it's possible for final table players to make deals, like in live events. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how this works. Obviously in a live event the dealers stops dealing for the discussion, and the TD makes each player sign off on it. Do they stop dealing hands on PS while the players have a natter, how do they formalise the deal etc? If they don't stop playing, surely stack sizes are changing so quickly that any deal would have to change. How do they officialise (if that's a word) it? Well, just generally, anyone know how it works on PS?

[Jezza]

Re: Pokerstars - final table deals I have done a deal in the final of a MTT on stars before.. (a 20 dollar entry 900 player one which I won)... What happens is you can all sit out. This means everyone folds automatically and the chip positions effectively stay the same as the antes get folded round, someone sends an email to stars whilst you are all sitting out and a customer service rep comes to the chat box on the table (less than 2mins after we sent the email). The tournament is manually paused and you can talk the deal......the rep makes sure everyone is in agreement to it and sorts the payouts for every player accordingly, you then have to play out for TLB points. If not everyone agrees the tourney is unpaused and play continues. Jez