Tournament at The Borgata

Later on ysterday ( day 18 ) I decided to head to The Borgata after work and entered the 4pm $100+20 tournament. There were about 150 entrants and I had come a little late into the 2nd level, but the dealer was soooooo slow that I was only blinded once. I played very patiently and avoided major confrontations. I was able to chip up early in level 3 while holding 55 (presto!!) and the board coming K 5 9 rainbow, I was the button and original raiser followed up got one caller and I smooth called, turn was a blank and raiser bet , got a call and I raised a small amount , orig raiser folded and caller called. The turn was another K giving me the full house and hopefully my opponent trips, he led out with a nice sized bet , I went into the tank and moved all in , he called and ......ship it!!!!!!.... I didn't have too many confrontations and just really played against the weak players at the table who I knew wouldn't play back... I only took one bad beat , but fortuantely I had plenty of
chips so it didn't affect me... Anywhoo, fast fwd to the final table and only 9 places got paid and the FT had 10 ppl ...and immidiately everyone started talking about chopping. I didn't want to chop with 10 ppl so I kept my mouth shut and didn't voice my opposition, and the conversation died down.... 10th place got knocked out and we were all in the money and again everyone started talking about EVEN chopping , even though there was some shortstacks who couldn't even survive a full orbit. This time I said that I'd rather wait till we have fewer players. 9th got eliminated and again everyone looked at me and said 'chop ? ' and I sort of pointed to the last remaining shortstack and said let's wait...8th got knocked out (by me ) and again all the puppy dog-faced players asked me , chop?...i looked around and we were all about even in chips and the even chop was $2200+ for each , which was more than the 3rd place finisher would get, so I finally agreed and took he $2255.... So do I add
the $2255 to my tally in my Challenge ?

- sent from my Treo