[shaniac]

Ebo,

There was a lot of comraderie between the floor supervisors/dealers and the local players and quite a bit of "loyalty" (aka softplaying) on open display among the local players themselves. Kind of stupifying that the floor was willing to improvise on some rules and procedures and yet maintained strict adherence to other ridiculous ones. I agree it's total BS.

Still, even with all the help from the floor and softplaying that seems to have been taking place, I doubt highly any of those local players have a good shot at winning and it was a pretty good tournament nonetheless, as corrupt as it was.