i grant your point, but someone earlier said the top three players had salaries totaling 200,000. That total is easily several millions. something else (this gets more interesting the more i think about it) -- this did not happen overnight -- i could place 350 1k bids, fine -- but several of those (one would think) would be upped; that is my experience. so he is having to commit -- over time -- large amounts of money to the enterprise. initially, i thought the dude felt "i lost the championship I'm going down in a blaze of glory", but he must have been planning / preparing for this for some time -- i would guess a week, minimum.