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Points to the Dead Stack?

View Poll Results: What should happen to a dead stacks league points?

Give them to the dead stack. He paid to be there, even if he wasn't..

4 44.44%

No one gets those points. No one earned them.

2 22.22%

Give them to the next place finisher.

1 11.11%

I don't know; I don't care.

2 22.22%

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03-01-2011 , 10:57 AM

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

In a league tournament, if a player does not show, should he be able to earn points? Suppose his stack cannot be removed from the table, he is blinded down, but hangs around long enough to earn points, should he get them?

If not, should the next person get them, or should no one get them?

03-01-2011 , 11:05 AM

pfapfap

HP JoY 2011 wienerbucket

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 22,537

If a player does not show in a league game, that player does not get a stack in the first place. I don't accept pre-registration.

Gotta be in it to win it.

(I picked "don't care" because none of the others applied.)

03-01-2011 , 11:07 AM

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

Please accept my hypothesis that there is no choice but to give him a stack and blind him off until the end.

Think PokerStars Home Game tournament, if you will

03-01-2011 , 11:13 AM

pfapfap

HP JoY 2011 wienerbucket

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 22,537

Does PokerStars give you the option?

If it's a pre-registered pre-paid tourney, then the points play. I don't like it for home games, tho', and I don't see myself crafting a league where this is a possibility.

03-01-2011 , 11:35 AM

flushdrew4.2

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 544

in the league i play in, if you aren't around for the 3rd level, your chips are removed.
it gives you an hour to be late.

03-01-2011 , 11:47 AM

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

I have very little admin power on PS. I would take them off the table if I could.

03-01-2011 , 12:37 PM

flushdrew4.2

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 544

oh. i see. i wasn't sure the context.

03-01-2011 , 12:47 PM

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

I was asking it as an open question, but I guess you have to have the context here to make a real call.

03-01-2011 , 12:48 PM

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

I may have made the poll even less effective when I wrote "paid to play," when in this case it is 1.1 play chips. I might even start over.

03-01-2011 , 02:19 PM

#10

Schmendr1ck

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Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 6,556

In a case where you don't have the power to pull the stack, I would award his points to the next finisher. I'm obviously biased in this case, but I've said in other threads that you shouldn't be eligible for league points if you don't show up for the tourney - even if you're willing to pay the buy-in and let your dead stack be blinded off.

DISCLAIMER: For the one or two of you who don't know, I was bubble boy in last night's tourney.

03-01-2011 , 02:20 PM

#11

eneely

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 9,791

I want to redo this poll. I don't like the way it is set up.

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