Well, they wouldn't be experienced and professional with 4000 runners. They'd need a boat load of temp and inexperienced dealers to run 250 tables. And they would surely be temp dealers, just like every other place. No easy solution to dealer experience in large turn out tournaments.

agree and keep us posted

How many 5,000 player tourneys have they hosted ?

There is one other possibility here. They do a chip audit at the end of day 2 and find 1.1M extra 5K chips in play,and assume they are counterfeit.

One poster has said his entire table started with an extra 5K chip. What if someone with poor math skills set up 22 tables with an extra 5K chip at each seat?

I'm not sure what would be worse...

I mean technically it was like 1200, 1800, 1800 entries on days not counting guys with multiple bullets. 1500 players is only 150 tables you can't find 150 competent dealers for 10'hours. I know there's side events and stuff but that stuff doesn't start until the big ones are narrowing down players.

Running two day 1s on same day made them have to have 300 dealers that day essentially they should do separate days which means less dealers and more competent dealers.

Def keep us posted, I also qualified online.





The dealers were god awful on Day 1 A.. the one kid at my table busted and said he was dealer tilted and refused to rebuy... Pretty sure we were dealing 5-7 hands per half hour in the beginning

If they were real they would of squashed it already.

Years ago, think my first WSOP, played a mega and was out in the tent, guy at my table was one of Men's boys. The two were talking periodically. I didn't know about the shadiness of Men, just knew he spat out his beer at a final table when they used to televise like 10 WSOP final tables every year, thought he was a ~funny crotchety old man.

His boy takes a hit. We go to break. Come back and after about five to ten minutes he plays his first hand since break and I study his stack which looked more than healthy. Tried to figure out a pot he had won. Couldn't. At time I thought I had to be wrong. Yet, it lingered in my mind and then when I found about "The Master's" true nature a year or two later, I'm pretty sure something dirty happened.

Tab just tweeted Day 3 seating assignments

How the hell is it 1.5 hours until the restart and we don't have any official word on what's going on? Supper bad **** by borgata you have to keep customers in the loop on **** like this

This type of tourney are good for average player and popularity of the game. There are not many similier tourney around. Borgata knows that . I hope they come up with solution which satisfy all or most of the players.

Don't forget about cash games other tournaments. All running simultaneously. When any room has big turn out tournaments, it's extremely hard to put experienced dealers in the box, ML included. It's not a function of incompetency at the Borgata. It's a function of needing 5 times normal dealers at the same time. But, lets not derail the thread. There will be some news soon.

Thats for Event #3 not #1

bahhh guess I misread it lol

FREE T-SHIRTS THO

Lol my buddy said he got one for registering for todays tournament.

Hi folks -

I think it's important that Tab not focus on what happened during days 1 and 2 of the tournament in question, but instead focus on what WILL happen on day 3 of this tournament.

Regards, Lee Jones [1]

[1] Not really Lee Jones

The super bowl of floor decisions

Back in the heyday of the USPC at the Taj Men and his boys were caught passing chips in the bathroom off the poker room during a break. I recall people saying they ended up searching Men's hotel room and found large denomination Taj tournament chips in his room. Apparently this has been going on for years (this was early 2000s). Unbelievable nothing has been done about this. I'll be very surprised if Men and his crew aren't involved in this Borgata mess.

I think one also hasto wonder why a place like the Borgata, who has several major tournament series a year, and one of the top poker rooms in the nation, wouldnt have some sort of contingency plan in place for any situation that could arise.

This is a really difficult situation. It could happen anywhere. Cheaters usually cheat pretty good.

Just meant playing a good game then being put in purgatory for basically 2 days not knowing what was going down sucks....

I think his point was... if said event happens shouldn't there be some type of outlined plan of action.

The temp dealers get $4.50/ hour and get sent home asap. They are a drop in bucket for 250k. Plus you're grossly underestimating the real reason they put on huge event. The poker room was totally full 70tableslast night, first time since 4th of july that I can remember. that's a lot of extra money,, plus extra pit, room, food. Plus they extra tables during week. They made plenty, especially compared to what they'd have on a normal January week.

And juice on any other sattilletes or extra tournys..this is ahuge event for them. Especially the poker staff who need to prove themselves as revenue generators.

They have a lot more at stake most likely wpt sponsorship tv time, I'd say next one might have half the players of this one because of this.