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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
If I knew it was my responsibility to verify my chip count at the start of the tournament, like it was my responsibility to make sure I got a hand, then I wouldn't care at all.
It is your responsibility to know both the starting sack size and count your chips when you get your stack. Just because it is the room's responsibility to put out the correct stack, this does not relieve you of the responsibility to protect yourself.
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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
...But I will guarantee you that the players at that table for some time knew that they had gotten too many chips to begin with. There were a number of regulars with grins on their faces like a cat that had just swallowed the canary.
This is an overlooked issue. There were certainly players who counted their stacks on sitting and of those players, some surely knew that they got too much. The reality is that there were people who took advantage of the rest of the field. Are these people cheaters? In my view, yes. Someone should have stood up and said that they thought they got too many chips. Integrity matters.
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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
Given that there was no warning about being responsible for the # of chips received at the start, I think it would have been fairer to just remove 5,000 chips form all players who started at that table. It wouldn't make it totally fair but to just play on is ridiculous.
Removing chips is not a good solution. The reasons for that ought to be clear and easy to deduce. The better solution would have been to give each remaining player a 5k chip, bringing all players to the same starting stack. It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing. For players who had already busted, there should have been some compensation.
This whole thing is a black eye for the room and its management. The mistake is borderline inexcusable, but the response is worse. The lack of a public apology is also troubling. They have a blog, though they make little productive use of it. That would be a good place to acknowledge responsibility.
Finally, they ought to take the rake from the event and use it to compensate the players, and not by giving them food vouchers. They ought to give each affected player a credit toward a future entry. So if you got shorted here, the next time you show up for an event, you get a discount. Acknowledge mistakes and make it right. That's the way you build goodwill.