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Originally Posted by Buckeyes
let me tell you on the Hollywood event there first tournament had over 30% reentries. Many players reentered at least 4 or 5 times. I condemn casinos today for the reentry over re buys. But if the player is gonna prove the casino right by allowing reentries over re buys then the casino operator is the smart one by doing this. Some players reentered 4 times one day and 4 more the next. Players are sick and casinos know this. The change in practice did not start at Hollywood. Rebuys were invented to keep the player around to play more. Then the casino realized that many players would rentry and pay the juice again. Much better to have 100 players reentry than 250 players rebuy.
This is an excellent point, and if anyone is re-entering that many times....well LOL, I would never do that.
As far as the tourney being well run, it was indeed fairly well run. I have no major complaints other than the clock went on the fritz a few times during Day B of event 1, but there really isn't much management can do about that. I did notice they were using different software for Event 2 for the clock.
The one thing I did have issue with is I was involved in a hand where I had two pair on the end and called a pretty big bet early from a player I read as having a busted flush draw with possibly a pair and when I called he said, "Good call, it's yours" and slowly tabled his hand, face up. I flipped over my hand and glanced and saw an ACE clubs, didn't see his other card....dealer pushed the pot to me and as I was organizing my chips, a player two to the righto of me (in the 1 seat) said, "He had a straight" and the player to my immediate left said that's what I thought (He's also a two plus twoer and had been in the hand apparently folding a set on the end). Nevertheless, dealer called the floor, floor asked if I had seen the other players hand when he tabled it and I said I only saw an ACE and then asked how much pot was and I said I don't know for sure, I've mixed in the chips....the other players said they saw the 9 of clubs also (which gave other player a straight as board was 2,8,10,J,Q)...so floor said they'd call upstairs to have the tape looked at.
While all this is going on, we restructured the pot at the table...but the clock kept going and other tables were playing hands while we waited on the result from upstiars, this lasted at least five maybe six minutes. Of course floor came over and declared opponent had a straight...I'd already counted out the pot and sent those chips on over.
I have no issue with the ruling here, in fact, I was ready to send the pot over to the other player without the floor going upstairs. The issue is I think the clock and play at all tables should have been stopped while they were reviewing the tape as our table sat there and was unable to play hands for 5 or 6 minutes and that isn't fair to our table.
The other player profusely apologized and I said no big deal, at least I read you right (busted flush draw), but the end result was the right outcome and I think the floor needed to rule on this and should have reviewed the tape as I didn't see the 9....but I wasn't too happy (nor were the other players at our table) that the clock kept running and play continued at the other tables. Granted this was early on maybe level 4-5-6, but still the clock should stop and play suspended when the video tape needs to be consulted at any tape during a tourney.