Oceans 11 - why not chop?

After my 3rd place finish on Weds 5th of March I returned to Oceans11 for the next Weds tournament and came 9th. This is 2 final tables in a row.

Interesting I was about 7th in chips at the start of the final table and the chip leaders needed to be somewhere soon. They wanted to chop the prize money evenly 9 ways. This meant each player would get slightly less than the 3rd place prize amount. All players agreed apart from one who was about 6th in chip count.

Why would he disagree? It is true the smallest stack was going to be the BB and may be quickly eliminated but even so it was extremely unlikely this player would make 3rd place because the 5 bigger stacks were much bigger than his. As it happened the small stack got a lucky break on his BB and play continued.

I cannot understand this guys logic. Did he think he was a much better player than the other players at the final table? Did he just want his tournament to last longer? Why do players not do the math when it comes to chopping at the final table?

Frustrating - you bet!!