[CincyLady]

yes, but NOT putting them in your pocket or take them to the bathroom is a very BASIC rule in tournaments.

It only takes ONCE either happening to yourself, or seeing it happen to someone else, to get the point across.

I had a friend who went up and played in Blackhawk at the Gilpin (A local casino that many of us in Denver play at, that holds 4 tournaments a day) a few months back.

I went up there that day to register in the event just after the one he was in, and bumped into him.

He was the chip leader and had a boatload of chips over and above everyone else.

Well, next thing I know he's MIA and no one wants to tell me where he went.

I also work with him, and ran into him at work and asked him what happened, because he had such a monster chip lead.

Seems he's not played in many tournaments, and about halfway through the story I knew what happened to him and his chips.

He was very upset and told me, well, the break came up and it was down to the final two tables, and they were consolidating down from three.

When he went over to his new table, someone elses chips were sitting there. Not knowing what to do, instead of asking the floor what should he do, he took his racks (several of them) to the mens room with him.

When he came back, the same thing happened to him that happened to the person the OP mentioned.

The fellow the OP mentioned could of asked the floor to help him move his chips, or to get him some chip racks.

Heck, I've played in Charity events in Ohio (which is the only legal poker there) when I lived there, and it was said each and every time at the start of the event, chips go in your pocket or out of the room, and you will be disqualified.

In fact, they even repeated it when the first break was announced as well.