Amen, well said sir

Somewhere in the neighborhood if 96,240,000 according to number of entries tweeted by Tab.

The PPA is a lobying group, not the poker police.

When you bag and tag overnight, I've never understood why they don't have someone count your chips. It wouldn't take that long. They would be able to get to the bottom of these types of scams more quickly that way in a multi-day event IMO.

I guess you could under-report the number of chips you have if they don't count it.

T96,240,000

TAFFY:

Serves them right. I hope the NJGC does come down hard on the Borgata. If they had made an example of Men The Master years ago by prosecuting him and sending him off to do a 5-10 year prison stretch, (and put the fear of God in other would-be cheats by doing so), they might not be confronted with this calamity.

I've talked with old-timers, (i.e. Las Vegas dealers and other folks who were around back in the "good old days" - the 1950's and 1960's), when most of the Vegas joints were run by the mob. They've told me that back then if you got caught cheating, the "wise guys" had a very effective - and a very quickly dispensed - method of dealing with you ... they dragged you out in the alleyway and proceeded to impair your ability to walk. Nowadays places like the Borgata seem to be content with "Now tsk tsk boys. Please don't let us catch you cheating because it might make us look bad ..."

And some people wonder why poker is dying.

Broken Back Alan of Huntsville

Poker isn't dying gangsta

It seems for the best that some will step away from the poker world indefinitely.

I agree with Micro. Honestly, the PPA has nothing to do with this particular situation. My question here is should we let this tourney continue with these counterfeit chips in play without anyone speaking up about this manner?

Well, this should be fun...

Men the master was deep in this tourney before getting eliminated a few hands before the end of the day yesterday. Maybe he didn't bring the chips in himself but I bet he has something to do with it

Did you confirm this by thinking about it?

Did they use chopsticks to bring the fake chips into play?

I played in this event.

There were almost 5000 runners in this over Day 1a, 1b and 1c.

Once again the Borgata could not seem to handle the entries nor find competent dealers. I'm the very last one to complain about new dealers or anything at a tournament, but the level of incompetency was astounding. In one case, our dealer could simply not count at all nor could she understand English!

With 30 minute levels, some tables were getting few hands in at each level due to the idiocy of the dealer.

They had three different areas where tournament tables were set up. On the four occasions when my table broke, no dealer or floor person bothered to tell anyone to rack their chips. On one table break a guy I was playing with walked over to the temporary cafeteria with his chips in hand and proceeded get in the food line. In one case, I was sent to a table that was already broken up AND there were two plastic crates of tournament chips sitting on that table with no dealer or floor person attending to them.

In the ballroom they won't be able to review cameras as there are very few of them and unless the Borgata has invested in some expensive equipment, cameras four stories up in the ballroom rafters are not going to yield too much detailed information.

There were several times during the tournament that it would have been very easy to pocket chips, introduce new chips or even just hand your stack over to another player.

Everything from the lines to get into this tournament, the tournament staff, the tournament structure and even the payout procedure was extremely flawed. It was like this place never ran a tournament before. The TD should not be anywhere near a poker tournament.

Hopefully WPT steps in for the Main Event.

This happened with 27 left. Average chip stack 3,564.444. They didn't start play today?

Starting Chips was 20,000 so 96,240,000 as above. 4,812 initial runners.

Can't imagine how much tape will have to be reviewed.

They have about 2 racks of bogus $5000T chips to find? a lot of starting stacks. Over 50 more players.

Could have been introduced at any time. Beginning, during, end of sessions.

Based on the massive amount of chips will a 1.2% addition change the outcome? Even if one player has them at the final tables.

Disconcerting. Who? Why? and When?

24 hour delay for the final 27, but the other tournaments are going forward. Bet the chips will be looked at by staff at the end of today.

I have no idea how to fix this. Been thinking about it. Best thing I came up with was to restart the day the chips were introduced but thats not close to fair.

Really complicated situation.

Crazy, who has the balls and is it really worth it given the scrutiny a top finish would bring? have a feeling someone will get caught, perpetrators have to be amongst those with significant chips stacks, only question is, is 1 day enough time to conduct a profession investigation. Unlikely if you ask me, this is a messy one, will be interesting to say the least.

lmfao at this^^^

5k chips twitter (@5kChips) went silent.

I played in this event as well and I agree, some of the dealers ahd no clue what they were doing, couldn't even figure out who had the winning hand .. or what they needed to do or where to go after there dealing session was over ...

Day 1.

Those chips look obviously fake. How long did it take for someone to speak up?

oh no

WhoJedi was selling fake T5K's near the bathroom for $4/chip, threw in autographed chopsticks as a bonus.

The opening event of a Borgata tournament series always seems like the worst one to play in. Far too many inexperienced/untrained dealers. I was in one a few years ago and many dealers chatted with players incessantly during his entire down. It was awful.