2006 WSOP color-up scandal?

[swope]

Read an editorial in that ubiquitous free poker newspaper thats at all the casinos about how a player received 2,000,000 extra chips due to a color up error. The employee responsible for the mistake was fired apparently but I see no mention of who'se stack got the extra chips, despite the writer saying in no uncertain terms that the person who benefited was an immoral scumbag who should be ostricized at every opportunity for not speaking up about the error.

Anyone know details?

And what are peoples opinions on this? Im suprised at my own lack of conviction regarding condemning the player, whoever it was... No one gives you back your money when an act of god takes it from you, is it really so awful to keep quiet when you benefit from the same? I would love to be able to jump on my high horse and call the person in question scum etc but with 10k invested and what amounts basically to an instant estate upgrade for you, your children, and all who share your bloodline for its entirety into the future, is it really realistic to judge someone so harshly?

[STA654]

Bound to happen considering the colors they were using.

Peach, dark red, pink, light red, etc...

[PITTM]

He said 2006, not 2007.

[inyourface]

my opinion is that if I found an extra 2M chips I would STFU too

[STA654]

obv Jamie Gold then.

instead of have 50 million he must have had 52 million going into the final table.

[kerze]

Amy Calistri and Tim Lavalli did a detailed investigation on this. The last article I recall seeing from them was this on February 2007. In the article they categorically state that Allen Cunningham and Jamie Gold did not receive extra chips. They do name one player who they think received 1 million of the chips but do not name the other player as the player they thought received the remaining extra chips is different than who Harrah's was going to name.

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/2...nths-after.htm

[MicroBob]

Organizations who can't hire employees who can properly add to color-up chips or insist that parts of some tournaments be held outside their huge building and instead in hotter-than-comfortable tents should not be holding the world's most prestigious series of poker tournaments.

Same goes for organizations who put in play cards in which the players themselves can not distinguish between the 6's and the 9's as well as organizations who use practically the same color for several different denominations of chips.

[PITTM]

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Organizations who can't hire employees who can properly add to color-up chips or insist that parts of some tournaments be held outside their huge building and instead in hotter-than-comfortable tents should not be holding the world's most prestigious series of poker tournaments.

Same goes for organizations who put in play cards in which the players themselves can not distinguish between the 6's and the 9's as well as organizations who use practically the same color for several different denominations of chips.

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THE ULTIMATE QFT.

I mean dude you cant get the most basic things right (cards should be distinguishable, chips should as well...) do something else.

[Joseph Hewes]

Agree.

[Arnold_O]

i'd probably speak up. guilt makes me play terrible