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Originally Posted by doublejoker
Recently a few venues have gone to a process of counting down each players stack on every break.
Can someone explain what this accomplishes?
Players constantly move from table to table, the only number that would have any relevance is the total number of chips in play. How would a single players chip count recorded every break identify anything.
I dont get it. It seems like a tremendous amount of work for staff and likely not even completed until well after the break is over.
Let's say its a best stack forward event, (easy to carry chips forward) and one player actually did cheat and carried chips from one flight to another.
He adds 5k in chips to his stack when moving tables.
Even though his stack is counted every break, how is he ever identified as the cheater?
Also, after adding the total chips in play, the extra 5k in chips are discovered to be in play, what happens next?
I'm not criticizing the procedure, I just don't understand how it works.
reasonable question Mr. Chainsaw, I believe it accomplishes two important things
1) slight deterrent
2) More importantly it establishes known points in the tournaments when the event was not compromised. If for example they do a count at the break at end of level X and discover fakes had been introduced, they could reset the tournament to last known state that was not compromised.
I understand the some will say WTF, I went on a heater in level X and now I have to go back to level Y. This is true, but considering the alternative this seems to the lesser of two evils and will avoid "cancelling" and event ala Borgata
It would surprise me if most major tournaments do not quickly adopt this procedure.