After a lackluster turnout of only 9 people, tournament staff announces verbally that top 2 places will pay. After 4 bustouts, and only a few hours of play officials halt the game because pokerstars is supposed to be live streaming the final table, even though tournament could have easily finished tonight. However, at this point they now tell players that top 3 will get paid, and that they had made a mistake earlier. Scott Seiver, who has a commanding chip lead, over 500k from 100k starting stack (don't think anyone else has over 200k), starts complaining and eventually gets tournament staff to go back to the original 2 places being paid. At least one person left in the field, Ryan Fees, is not happy with the decision according to his Twitter account, and I'm pretty sure the other 3 aren't thrilled either.

I can see both sides arguement, but after giving up 2.5M in overlays, you'd think they might get a 100k 9 man sit and go that they rake the **** out of right.

Should make for an interesting live stream tomorrow.

Just another sign that tournament poker on all levels is on a rapid decline.

Cash games declining at a faster rate IMO though

lots of mad going on right now for fees on twitter (cant say i blame him) should make for a pretty good show tomorrow.

hopefully fees comes back and crushes this thing.

Wait: can you explain the 2.5mm in overlays part?

The main event was a 10 mil gtd, but overlayed 2.5m

Getting my money back on stream tomorrow. Tune in.

i think scott would complain regardless of chipstack (maybe he complains more if he's chipleader) but he doesnt strike me as someone who would angle this rules interpretation @ all. if he's a shortstack he's not gonna argue for 3 spots paying.

Mandatory political views T shirts needed.

GL tomorrow. Excited to watch.

Comically naive.

Op is partially incorrect. It was less than a level in between (with registration still open) when a floorman misspoke and said it was paying 2 and when registration closed and they announced it would pay 3 spots. The only person to bust in this time period was a short stack.

Also when the floor announced it would pay 3 at the end of play, the floor told Scott that's how it would be and he told them he would make it a public problem for them if they didn't change it to paying 2 spots. The other 4 players left as it appeared Scott had no chance of getting a ridiculous change made. Then in private conversation with the TD, Scott got them to change it to the way he wanted it giving himself approximate $70k in ICM advantage.

Thank you for correcting the inaccuracies.

Did you fall for a Nigerian email scam?

lol

If this is true I would be very upset if I were the other players. Always thought Seiver was an arrogant arse.

What kind of clown show are they running anyway if they can't run a sit and go with a $1,000/player rake?

$2500/player in rake

And the idiots keep paying it. Lotta prestige there for a 9 player(who's got the biggest balls) rake out the ass high roller event.

the only just outcome is for fees to win and scott to finish 3rd.

Wow at that rake

So what is in writing? 3 or 2 get paid? How are ppl upset at Scott when they originally announced 2?

Scott Seiver is approaching Negreanu-esque ability to be unbearable.