JC Tran Controversy at Foxwoods

[JohnnyGroomsTD]

The problem with this is that it forces the floorperson or TD to decide whteher or not it was a legitimate "play" at the pot, or if it was collusion. For example:

A player moves all in and is called by another player. He has no pair no draw. The other guy has a big hand....

As a tournament director, at that point if you are called, you must decide (without being at the table for play of the hand) whether or not this guy was making a play at the pot or chip dumping. How do we decide?

[JohnnyGroomsTD]

The decision will revrert to whether or not we "know" the players, or how we feel about it. Nothing is worse than having a person make a decision and not be able to back it up with logic...

[JohnnyGroomsTD]

Also, I found it interesting that the guy slid chips to JC and JC started shuffling them before the turn and river had been put out... he had admitted he had lost the pot when he did this. That tells me that he meant to fold....BUT HE STILL HAD A LIVE HAND

[Diana Ross Fan]

I think that's the point. JohhnyG. It was not legal for the other player to muck his cards in that situation, therefore the hands must be tabled and shown down.