More WSOP Problems

BenTurpen · #1 06-03-2007, 06:12 PM

Pokernews.com... There has been some controversy brewing in this event. Several players are reporting differences in their chip stacks. Supposedly, they counted their chips and signed off on them before the dealers colored up their stacks. Players did not re-check their chips before they bagged them. When players stacked their chips at the start of Day 2, several of them noticed that the chips in their bag did not match the figure they originally wrote down. The tournament staff, which was swamped with bustouts in the first few minutes, is currently working on the issue.

...Tremendous.

True North · #2 06-03-2007, 07:26 PM

This has to be the worst run tournament series of all time, and it's not even a week old.

afish · #3 06-03-2007, 07:47 PM

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You know, I had sympathy for the people who went two years ago and the people who went last year. But by this time, there's been enough of a track record that everyone should have known what they were getting into. I honestly can't understand why so many people go, when there are tons of big buy-in tournaments all over the country all year long.

Ghazban · #4 06-03-2007, 07:53 PM

Badly run or not, there is still better overlay for the skilled player at the WSOP than at any other tournament series in the world.

afish · #5 06-03-2007, 07:55 PM

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That's fine, but then they've made an informed decision to accept Harrahs mismanagement as the cost of doing business.

Ghazban · #6 06-03-2007, 07:58 PM

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That's fine, but then they've made an informed decision to accept Harrahs mismanagement as the cost of doing business.

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I agree; I was just replying to your remark about why people put up with this crap.

kutuz_off · #7 06-03-2007, 08:17 PM

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Which doesn't mean that they should pretend it's "business as it should be". Improvements won't happen if nobody complains.

CincyLady · #8 06-03-2007, 08:19 PM

Well, another reason is simply, the name. Playing in the WSOP and especially if you win the bracelet, still carries powerful bragging rights.

BenTurpen · #9 06-03-2007, 08:37 PM

Pokernews.com... Day 2 of Event #3 has fetaured most delays in a tournament that I ever experienced. The first delay was due to the high volume of bustouts in the first few hands of play. Play was also slowed up to address with the missing chips. Most recently, there was a serious delay in the color up(45 min. delay). The staff took extra time to count every chip that was colored up. When a discrepency was discovered, Jack Effel and Jimmy Summerfeld quickly corrected the mistake. This should be the last major delay of this event.

Of course they also said it would be the last delay after the first one.

Jurollo · #10 06-03-2007, 08:45 PM

The crappy thing is that Harrah's seems to be saying, "If you don't want to play we don't care!" They know damn well the casual player won't really notice the bad things thus they can keep doing them because as long as the fish that don't care are there the pro's have to be too and Harrah's knows this.