You are the Tournament Director: Only One Player At The Table

[MM]

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You are the Tournament Director: Only One Player At The Table

[oneshotbob]

Interesting one. I think if he misses more than one hand of hand-for-hand play he is taking advantage and should be disqualified. Once that first hand has actually happened, he knows for sure it's an error and not a new table.
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[stowjon]

DQ is very harsh IMO. DQ is appropriate IMO. i cant make my mind up, its a real tough call.
The player clearly is wrong, TBH i dont think actually i dont know what i think on this!
lets just punch him!
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[seldo]

Violence is always the best solution!

Seriously though, I think a dq is too much here but a 1 round penalty is too little. Somewhere in the middle would be my best bet.

[stowjon]

30 min sit out seldo? this is my thinking BTW welcome to the forum
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[Indestructible]

Player has only done what he was told? He is owed an apology and a free drink on the house for Giving him duff information.

[knifeboy62]

Not sure I have a better answer than DQ but that could be extremely harsh in certain circumstances. What if this was first ever live tourney the person had played and they genuinely didn't realise that this was a clear error by staff?

Should we really say that the player (paying customer) must be experienced enough to see this was a problem but that it's ok for the (paid) staff to make the mistake. It would be like ordering a bottle of £20 wine, being served a £2000 bottle and being charged the £2000 because the customer did not point out the error of the staff.

Maybe I would give the person that sat out and the person that bubbled the chance to toss a coin for who survived with the remaining chipstack. Not a great solution but seems a little more equitable.
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[DCSW7]

What a cluster****

[StGilmore]

This began as TD error and continued as unethical advantage-taking by player.

Someone drops a £50 note. Guy finds it - after a moment, a person comes saying 'I lost 50 quid! Anyone seen anything???' Guy keeps the money in his pocket and stares at passing traffic.

Disqualification.
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[DCSW7]

[StGilmore]

[DCSW7]

(and apologies for the thread derail!)
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[pembo]

I do like how all the TDs are quick to defend their fellow director and pass the blame straight onto the player.

I know you can argue that the player should have realised that he was on his own, but surely the tournament director could see a player sat on a table by himself?

Obviously we don't have the full story, but I feel sorry for the bubble boy, but seeing as the TD is in just as much error as the player in the story, they should just suck it up and at least offer the bubble his buy-in back, or something similar.

[The Reverend]

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We don't know how many chips he had - if he had 2bbs then dq prob ok, but if he was chip leader then obv no advantage (in fact prob a disadvantage).