Extra chips in a live event

[Toronexti]

OK, lets say you're in a WPT event and you get you're baggy with chips go to you're table and sit down. You know that the starting stack is 20k so you count out you're chips and it comes out to 25k it turns out they put an extra 5k chip into your bag - what do you do?

[s33w33d]

I do nothing because I'm a scumbag

[4CardStraight]

Report it, but not because I am so Morally sound as to always do the honest thing.

Instead, because there is a fairly good chance that someone at the table will notice, and they can reconstruct that my stack was greater than others. And besides not only can I be accused of not reporting that my bag came with more chips, but because I could be accused of bringing in chips from outside, or other tournaments, risking not only forfieture of my buyin but also potentially my ability to play at the casino indefinitely.

And besides, poker is a game where our goal is winning through better play. Sure its about money too, but not at any cost. If it were, why dont we all just go mug old people. Thats a lot easier.

4Card

[gimmetheloot]

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Sure its about money too, but not at any cost. If it were, why dont we all just go mug old people. Thats a lot easier.


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[adanthar]

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Report it, but not because I am so Morally sound as to always do the honest thing.

Instead, because there is a fairly good chance that someone at the table will notice, and they can reconstruct that my stack was greater than others.

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Among other things, good luck with going all in during the first few hours at any point when it turns out you have a mystery 5K left over somewhere.