| Ruling question -- LB and BB chopped!
Curious to get other ideas on this, happened a few nights ago.
Self-dealt tournament. At a table I was *not* at, it folds to the LB and BB who are relatively new tournament players. They agree to chop (yes, I know, this is not allowed) and take their blinds back and muck their cards. The next hand is started when finally someone at the table yells "Floor" and I come over to see what's up.
The first thing out of my mouth was "of course you can't chop" and I ordered them to replay the hand at same blind positions. One quizzical look from a player made me realize that ok, that wasn't entirely fair either, so exasperated I just said "hang on, ok look: never do that again" and allowed play to continue (i.e., allowed the chop to stand).
In retrospect, I think I should have ordered the two blinds to be put into the pot as dead money for the next hand (though that's not entirely fair either).
It was early in the tournament, blinds were very low compared to stack sizes (if this affects your decision process ... the issue gets a lot thornier if we are at the all-in lottery stage of astronomical blinds!)
Thoughts? Obviously, they shouldn't chop. Obviously it should have been stopped the moment one of them said "chop?" and before they both mucked. But given how it went down -- any other ideas about how to rule?  | 
