Tourney Player Storms out Mid-tourney!!?? (3 Viewers)

[Jimulacrum]

If it's a multi-table event, I'm not really worried about balanced stacks. A player at table one could knock out multiple players, then get moved to table 2, and tables aren't chip balanced anymore.

Me either. I've heard this point mentioned in a few different circumstances, with the implication being that it's somehow unfair if chips become unbalanced between tables.

How much energy are people really supposed to put into determining and enforcing this idea of tables being "chip balanced"? Is it even a reasonable expectation? Once chips start moving around and players have to move to balance seating, it's basically a given that chips will be out of balance between tables. IMO the TD should have to follow a prescribed rule to move players rather than concerning himself with how to preserve chip balance.

Sometimes things are going to be subject to chance. It's a gambling game, after all. If the situation came together procedurally or by chance, it may advantage or disadvantage someone, but that doesn't make it inherently unfair.

 

[ekricket]

lol nah fuck that guy

Dude, you just got banned from the OP game.

The irony in this thread is so incredible!!

 

[MatB]

read the title of this and immediately thought of someone

@Schmendr1ck

 

[HiveKueen]

Dude, you just got banned from the OP game.

The irony in this thread is so incredible!!

Big fan of catching irony in life…. Just don’t see it here!

 

[Schmendr1ck]

read the title of this and immediately thought of someone

@Schmendr1ck

sit to banana

 

[Preditor]

I'm actually open to splitting the stack evenly amongst the remaining players are the table - as a house rule, knowing this would never happen at a casino. I think the players at the affected table would have been happy with this. But, would the players at the other table be ok with it? Because now every player at the split-the-stack table has chips they didn't actually earn.

I’m curious a to others thoughts on this solution. Particularly if it is a friendly home game and you are at the final table, is there a huge disadvantage to this as opppsed to the chips being taken out of a play?

 

[HiveKueen]

I’m curious a to others thoughts on this solution. Particularly if it is a friendly home game and you are at the final table, is there a huge disadvantage to this as opppsed to the chips being taken out of a play?

I ultimately moved away from this as not fair to the players at the other table. I just didn’t like the idea of players having chips they didn’t earn.

 

[Tarsus4]

I’m curious a to others thoughts on this solution. Particularly if it is a friendly home game and you are at the final table, is there a huge disadvantage to this as opppsed to the chips being taken out of a play?

I think there is, yes. I've looked at a bunch of options for this situation and I don't think there's a universally fair one, but redistributing the chips is among the more unfair.

Example: One player has 20bb, another has 4bb, and you have 30bb to redistribute. Do you split it equally, raising them to 35bb and 19bb? No! That's grossly unfair to the larger stack. But distributing proportionally isn't much better either: 45bb and 9bb. 9bb has a much better chance to get a good flip and double up.

As much as the loss of the chips might deprive the table if they're all short-stacked, I think distributing them is worse.

 

[dizzyChipper]

If they wouldn’t be allowed back than it’s a DQ so you can pickup.

If they would be allowed back you have to leave chips as they can show up any moment.

I’ve seen plenty of players “walk it off” and come back quickly. I’ve also seen players rage quit after 8 cash buy ins, throw cards, curse off the dealers and they’re back next week like it was totally normal.

The thing I’ve never seen is a player not want to come back eventually. lol. Good luck keeping Karen out.

 

[XBobdog]

I played in a game for a while that was mostly doctors. It was not uncommon for someone to play while on call. As a result we had a fair number of mid game departures. The player was blinded out, but at an accelerated rate of a big blind per deal. We didn't want to give the preceding players the constant undefended blind to steal and didn't just want to divide up the chips. it seemed to work well for us and usually kicked up the action for bit. There was never more than one table.

Really we should have just played cash, but the host liked tournaments. (The Moneymaker Era)

 

[WedgeRock]

The only issue with taking the stack out of play is if the player comes back. That's why I'd set a timeframe for his/her return.

No good reason to redistribute the chips, although the BB per hand does negate the positional advantage. And if the absent player was a big stack, it avoids the possibility of leaving the table extremely short.