Another Tent Fiasco

[AnnieJr]

I just returned from playing the Omaha 8b Pot Limit tourney. I was the unlucky one at the table next to the door inside the tent. Everytime the first door opened, if the dealer was dealing, the wind would flip the cards exposing them. It happened a total of 7 times. I had two hands ruined by losing a 2 and another time a 3 to go with my A and make the hand playable. I would have hit the nut flush and nut low to scoop the pot. These turned out to be 2 of my only 4 playable hands the first 4 hours of the tourney.

I was low stacked by the dinner break, was forced to go in shortly after the break. I had a great hand better than my caller, but he got lucky when his A247 beat my A23J after a flop of (A, 5, 7) Turn 6 ,River 3.

Also I had freezing cold air blowing directly on me continuously. It gave me a wicked sinus headache. I complained but they did nothing. They said the AC company was on the way but and hour and a half later it was still the same.

Honestly I have to wonder if my whole tourney was ruined by this BS. Should I and the others who suffered the tent BS get some compensation ?

A thank you to Men the Master, who came to our table after an hour, and saw me freezing. He game me his coat which I put over my head. Even after busting out, he let me keep it until later. What a nice guy.

Mary C.
aka AnnieJr

[CybrPunk]

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A thank you to Men the Master, who came to our table after an hour, and saw me freezing. He game me his coat which I put over my head. Even after busting out, he let me keep it until later. What a nice guy.

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It's more likely that he was waiting until the higher value chips were in play before asking you to return his 'jacket'.....

[Perk76]

LOL

1. Invest in card protectors.
2. Learn to dress appropriately.
3. After something happens once, learn from your mistakes and dont let it happen again.
4. Your a woman, carry headache medicine.

[Cornell Fiji]

Mary,
This sucks. I think public complaints about things like this are the only way to get the WSOP personell to consider improving them in the future. While I don't belive you deserve compensation I do encourage you to write a letter to Harras and the WSOP officials explaining what happened.

Perk,
Work on your reading comprehension, the cards were flipped up while they were being dealt. The dealer was probably pitching them too high and in combination with the gusts of air they were flipping over. Also, I would like to say that you are an idiot. Lastly:
***You are now ignoring this user***

[BigAlK]

This is a problem in the tent in other spots too. I was playing in a casino other than the Rio last week and started talking to one of my opponents who it turned out was dealing at the WSOP. When I asked if he'd had to deal in the tent he said he had been in a table in the back corner for a while. There was a hole in the ceiling that caused the cards in the 7 and 8 seat to continually get flipped over no matter how he pitched them. He discussed it with the floor who instructed him to deal cards to those seats by putting them on the felt and sliding them over (holding them down with his hand the entire way).

I would imagine a lot of the tables would have problems due to opening and closing the door since there aren't double doors and it gets windy in Vegas pretty often.

[deluz35]

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There was a hole in the ceiling that caused the cards in the 7 and 8 seat to continually get flipped over no matter how he pitched them.

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LOL flipaments? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Boycott Harrah's FTW? /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[jjacky]

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There was a hole in the ceiling that caused the cards in the 7 and 8 seat to continually get flipped over no matter how he pitched them.

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LOL flipaments?


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NH sir.

[mastr]

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It's more likely that he was waiting until the higher value chips were in play before asking you to return his 'jacket'.....

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I have 100 % had that identical thought

[MaverickUSC]

I played this event as well. I was wearing a very warm fleece and I literally could not feel my hands for a significant period of play. Also was very windy during the MHE event, and I experienced the creaking and popping of the girders above. Very unnerving.

Devo

[CincyLady]

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LOL

1. Invest in card protectors.
2. Learn to dress appropriately.
3. After something happens once, learn from your mistakes and dont let it happen again.
4. Your a woman, carry headache medicine.

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Might I point that for Item number 1, that a card protector won't help if it's say a card in the muck pile blows over, or worse, a card in the common cards blow off the table?

Also, what in the Frell does having her being a woman make a difference in carrying Headache meds, hmm?

If you're thinking 'Purse' well, not all women carry them, in fact, a lot of them don't. I know, I'm a woman and I don't carry a purse.

Plus, why should we women be the frelling drugstores for the rest of the world (namely men), hmm (pet peeve of mine)?

[AnnieJr]

I had already checked out the tent and thought that a short sleeve shirt with a long sleeve shirt over it was appropriate. Little did I know there were icy cold spots. I did take a Motrin, but it didn't help.

I wouldn't even have cared about that if my cards could have been delivered properly to me. I am not ever going to play in the WSOP again if these will be the circumstances. Too much money at stake to have this happen. Sounds like it ruined other people's tourneys as well.

I guess I just wanted to vent, and hopefully save someone else from having to go through it and waste $1500.

Mary C.
AnnieJr

[Tuco]

Um, excuse me. It's not a tent. It's a "players pavillion"

Tuco.

[Matt Williams]

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If you're thinking 'Purse' well, not all women carry them, in fact, a lot of them don't. I know, I'm a woman and I don't carry a purse.


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If you don't carry a "purse", what do you call the thing you carry all your crap with? Or are you just being a nit about calling a pocketbook a purse?

BTW- If you don't carry anything, congrats on being the first chick I know that doesn't. Because everywhere I look, women have purses.

[TonyLA]

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LOL

1. Invest in card protectors.
2. Learn to dress appropriately.
3. After something happens once, learn from your mistakes and dont let it happen again.
4. Your a woman, carry headache medicine.

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Some of us are under the opinion that if you spend thousands of dollars to play in a tournament, you should receive (and expect) better playing conditions.

- T

[silver book]

To above poster, if you got what you paid for, cadillacs would be good cars

[Twistofsin]

It doesn't sound like it was anyones mistake. If there's a draft blowing down, especially from the edge of the table it will create an updraft when the dealer is pitching that will flip cards over.

I've seen it happen many times with tables that have ceiling fans over one of the edges.