He said he lost his sense of smell, then got tested and had corona, pretty sure it wasn’t some false positive.

The take that the WSOP would be boxed in to paying multiple players 9th place money is silly. The logical solution would be to just split the 8th and 9th place money, or you could just give 8th money to whoever had the most chips. Either way, I thought there was always some language in the rules that give the TD discretion.

Another opinion I've heard that doesn't make much sense is the one where they said an exception would be made for a name such as Hellmuth. Zero chance. Letting him play would be insane, as would telling the remaining eight players to wait in their hotel rooms for a week by themselves until the PokerBrat tested negative twice.

C'mon gize lol

Yes, you can do this with kids. You don’t see them for a month. If that means you have to pay someone $25k to care of them, you do it. The amount of money involved here is too great as well as what a win means beyond the immediate payout.

The player likely messed up by being lax with with his lifestyle. An interaction with one person is one person too many.

Even though this was clearly the rules and likely his fault, still sucks. You don’t get too many opportunities to final table the WSOP ME.

I mean it’s highly possible he was very careful but caught it anyway. I don’t trust the airlines when they say it’s safe. They just don’t want that industry to go under. But whatever he did, more probably could have been done. Still sucks though.

Why would anyone play a tournament if you get disqualified if you get sick?

If your covid mitigation measures are better than the field than that's just extra EV for you.

Are all the funds going to the remaining players? If so, I completely take back what I said.

What was the point of the live FT if there was no stream or broadcast?

Also does anyone know where the the $1million prize pool comes from for the US vs International winner grudge match?

https://www.highstakesdb.com/10713-m...ne-series.aspx

Surprised no-one has mentioned this but it appears De Silva has been accused of multi accounting.

It has been mentioned, see reply #43 in this thread.

There's a "search in thread" tool a the top of the thread where that post shows up if you search for "multi".

Yup, confirmed you'll be fine because you think you will be. Shame that scientists don't agree with you:

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/oh...ed-to-covid-19

I don't understand why people keep saying this. If we assume he's being truthful, he started quarantine on the 10th. Three days before Day 1. It's unreasonable to say that people should quarantine weeks before Day 1, especially since a lot of them would have to travel for the FT.

The problem seems to be the last second nature all of this was put together. Between the end of Day 2 and the start of the final table was a little under 14 days (13 days and some hours), so it's entirely possible for someone to do everything right and still catch covid trying to travel to Vegas on the 15th and still be testing positive on the 28th.

In a world of thieves and murderers it’s hard to get outraged by someone entering a thousand player MTT more than once. At least that’s how I feel about it.

The much bigger question for me is the case of the Chinese player who got DQ from the international final table because he was unable to travel to Czechia.

It sounds like this isn't a case where there was some small risk the player would be DQed. It was certain he would be DQed, since government restrictions made all such travel impossible.

Why would you play a tournament where you KNEW you would be DQed if you reached the final table? I suppose it's possible he was unaware of his government's travel rules, but you'd think anyone would at least do some basic research about this ahead of time.

this is how you get what they call "Life Tilt"

I think the sites should just have rebuy tournaments to do away with this problem.

Think many of them are, it’s still better to have two fresh entries in there from the start

The 10K freeze out was an exception so yes he had a better chance there

I haven't seen anyone post this, but obviously the reason for having such a harsh rule is for players to take responsibility for not getting infected and take it seriously. Seems like many of the posters ITT think he did everything he could and still got infected. No, this is not the way it works. He knew what he'd lose if he got Covid and still didn't take it seriously enough. What measures do you think the average person would take if they get $200k if they can show up on a specific date and give a negative test?

Seems difficult with travel.

Do we know where he played the online portion? Considering he is not from the east coast, my money would be on Las Vegas and he didn't have to travel far.

Still a point that they didn't give players enough time. The online portion was 13th to 14th, after which they should have had time enough to make it to Vegas and stay there in quarantine for two weeks before the test.

Of course players knew all this beforehand, so could choose to take part only if they could start quarantine before the online part and get to Vegas without breaking it.

Whatever. Like most tournament donks this dude has run so far above expectation it’s unreal. He has nothing to be tilted about.

Mike Stout is one of the biggest pos in poker. Dude runs his own “poker charity” and is constantly mouthing off on Twitter trying to act like some saint. Grade A clown **** and downright embarrassing.

His name is Matt

Whatever. Shows how much attention I give that tool.