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Originally Posted by Alwayscoming7777
Please Please Please help 🙏
Could I ask your advice on a poker tournament my father played at the weekend. He qualified to a $600 LIVE tournament in a freeroll online hes played a couple of years but knows the game! I was over the moon for him he's only been playing $1-3 tournament online ! I have played two events before and thought it would be a really good experience. He was so nervous and excited you know the feeling! He managed to make it to Day 2 with 130,000 this is were it gets interesting registration closed at 3 from day one last flight then they proceeded to play day 2 now at 4pm the players sat down at day 2 for over 2 and half hours without knowing how many got paid out so essentially the was playing blind not knowing the payouts I have never seen or heard anything like this in my life! Obviously no medium or small stacks would make a move until they know the payouts this went on for 2 hours. They was breaking tables up without any seat drawing! At one point he called my father's name out and said your moving he wasn't next big bling the guy was nowhere near the table just randomly called his name he got.moved 6/7 times he finished 71 out of over 700 entrants and didn't cash ?
Thanks In advance just wanted someone else's opinion it just doesn't feel right I have played thousands of tournaments and never heard of the money not being shown for two and a half hours!
James
My thoughts echo the same as others here.
1. Your father wasn't scammed or targeted, there does not seem to be anything actionable here, and the window for recourse is long closed. So chalk it up to a life lesson and move on
2. If in this predicament in the future, raise more of a stink, ask for the TD and ask why the updated information is not posted.
3. There are opportunities here, even if you are a small or medium stack. With no information on where the bubble is, aggressive play is going to be successful
4. If this was a casino run tournament, do not play events at this casino anymore. If this was a circuit event, find out what company was managing the tournament, and contact their TD, and then avoid tournaments run by that company. You can help fix the problem for the future. Your dad will get no compensation
5. Learn to not let these things tilt you. Yes, this was bad practice. Yes, this unfairly disadvantaged certain stacks. But if you play tournament poker long enough, you are going to encounter many, many situations that are unfair, from the mundane (short stack plays his big blind, then gets moved UTG at a new table) to the very unusual (live hand gets mucked by dealer). It is easy to let these things tilt you. But if you focus on the things you can't help, you ignore taking advantage of the things you can.
So, yes, this is not normal, and not particularly fair. But it happens, roll with it, or even exploit it. And the time to do anything about it as it is happening.