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[RoyL]

When we went to the final table, we were using the Tournament Director software and you couldn't see the screen very well from the table. One of the guys went to see what seat he was to move to and when he returned his chip stack was gone. We were sure they had gotten mixed in the chip leaders stack and didn't think he had taken them on purpose, but the guy who lost his chips didn't know how many chips he had lost.
The players started arguing about what should be done and finally the person that that was directing the tournament said we would just have to chop the prize money between the players evenly because we couldn't do it by percentage without knowing how many chips the one player had. Of coarse the people with the largest stacks were very upset and the short stacks were very happy with the ruling.
Was this the correct ruling under these circumstances????

I need to get some qualified opinions as soon as possible before it tears the group apart. It has taken a long time to get this group together and I hate to think about starting another from the pieces that would be left over.

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