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Originally Posted by iamthepush
If you make it to the second day of a tournament do you think your chips should only come into in play when you get there?
Different spot, but close .. OP's point is that your stack is in play 'once you choose to put it in play' ... and that's when you sit down and take your first hand. And presumably that was sometime during Day 1. Once you take a hand you're in .. and your stack stays in whether you're at the table, in the bathroom or on a smoke break.
Most venues will pull a stack, if it has survived, at the end of late registration which is normally during a Day 1, if the Player has not taken their seat as of yet.
Most of us have heard stories about stacks that actually will survive to cash in tournaments with no Player sitting in the seat. One Player in the WSOP had actually died between Day 1A and Day 2 of a tournament. I recently witnessed a Player who actually flew home for his class reunion due to building such a large Day 1 stack, his stack cashed .. .then he Final Tabled after showing up later in Day 2. GL