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Been a while since my last trip to a Casino. This time in sunny Brisbane! Only 3 tables running on a weekday, and I was the only non-reg on the 2/5 table.

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Nice Angel bridge jumbos as always.
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bruh said:
How comfortable are those Triton tables? The interrupted padded rail irks me a bit, isn't it annoying to you? Tempted to buy one though...
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Very comfortable, the only thing I find annoying is cleaning out the debris between them.
 
Bagged in Flight 3 of an all-week tournament at Rivers Schenectady. Turnout was very light on a Tuesday so we had to play all the way down to five. Day two is Sunday. A buddy is the current chip leader. First pic is at the first break, second when we were bagging up. But I’m on one buy-in and he bought three times so I’m already profitable, nyaahhhh.

This Rivers location is pretty rinky-dink, so no giant purse here, but first place should still be like $12-$15K. Anyway it had been a while since I had grinded a tourney, and was a relief to know I could still do it. Definitely got very lucky once to double up instead of bust late, but for the most part I just was patient and tried to pay more attention to what the villains were doing than the rest of the table, and find spots to exploit...

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Something unusual came up in relation to the second photo I posted above, showing us bagging up Flight C of this tourney.

Yesterday I went to the casino site to see if they had posted anything about chip counts headed into Day 2. They had not on the casino site, but I did find a list posted on their Facebook page.

Something jumped right out at me: the player they listed as having the second most chips of all the qualifiers from the first four flights was the guy standing up to my left at the table. We had been at the same table all day.

Problem was, he wasn’t even the chip leader at our table; and my buddy was the chip leader overall. So there was no way this guy could be in second.

When I double-checked his reported chip count, I realized it was 100K too high.

Zooming in on my photo, I could see exactly what he had: 305K, not the 405K reported. In other words, an extra hundred thousand.

I triple-checked my photo, to make sure that there weren’t some hidden chips, or dirty stack issues. Nope. The count just appeared to be wrong.

I sent a text to one of the poker room managers, basically saying that while I didn’t want to start trouble, it seemed there was a problem with the reported counts. Got no response.

I reached out to another player who was playing flight #5, and he raised the issue with the floor, showing him my photo.

The floor said that they would have to take a look at the cameras, but that the written chip count on the receipt kept by the casino did say 405 not 305.

It seems that they don’t actually bag the chips for this tournament; they don’t have enough chips to physically bag in multi-flight tournaments. So they just go by what is written on the receipts.

My buddy also passed along something else I’d noticed, which is that if you totaled up all the reported chip counts for our flight, it was 100,000 more than the actual number of chips known to have been in play (# of entries x starting stacks).

So either there had to be a recording error, or else someone snuck chips into the tournament…

Later in the day, the casino posted a new list of chip counts, bumping down the player in question several ranks to reflect what you would expect would be a lower chip count, yet repeating the same number – 405K!

Finally, this afternoon, they posted a third tally of the results for the first five flights, and at last got the number correct. I guess they did go to the cameras.

But it’s kind of shocking to me that the tournament a would make such a big transcription mistakes, especially when they’re not physically bagging chips; and that they wouldn’t reconcile the number of entries and total chips with the final bag counts for each flight to prevent fraud and detect errors… and lastly, that it took two of us agitating for 24 hours to get the issue resolved.

I’ve gotten in the habit of always photographing my chip stack whenever I get up from the table in a casino, especially in tournaments. I would just recommend that people do the same… And not assume the casinos are being as diligent as you would expect.
 
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Taghkanic said:
Something unusual came up in relation to the second photo I posted above, showing us bagging up Flight C of this tourney.

Yesterday I went to the casino site to see if they had posted anything about chip counts headed into Day 2. They had not on the casino site, but I did find a list posted on their Facebook page.

Something jumped right out at me: the player they listed as having the second most chips of all the qualifiers from the first four flights was the guy standing up to my left at the table. We had been at the sane tables all day.

Problem was, he wasn’t even the chip leader at our table; and my buddy was the chip leader overall. So there was no way this guy could be in second.

When I double-checked his reported chip count, I realized it was 100K too high.

Zooming in on my photo, I could see exactly what he had: 305K, not the 405K reported. In other words, an extra hundred thousand.

I triple-checked my photo, to make sure that there weren’t some hidden chips, or dirty stack issues. Nope. The count just appeared to be wrong.

I sent a text to one of the poker room managers, basically saying that while I didn’t want to start trouble, but it seemed there was a problem with the reported counts. Got no response.

I reached out to another player who I knew was playing flight #5, and he raised the issue with the floor, showing him my photo.

The floor said that they would have to take a look at the cameras, but that the written chip count on the receipt kept by the casino did say 405 not 305.

It seems that they don’t actually bag the chips for this tournament; apparently they don’t have enough chips to physically bag in multi-flight tournaments. So they just go by what is written on the receipts.

My buddy also passed along something else I’d noticed, which is that if you totaled up all the reported chip counts for our flight, it was 100,000 more than the actual number of chips known to have been in play (# of entries x starting stacks).

So either there had to be a recording error, or else someone snuck chips into the tournament…

Later in the day, the casino posted a new list of chip counts, bumping down the player in question several ranks to reflect what you would expect would be a lower chip count, yet repeating the same number – 405K!

Finally, this afternoon, they posted a third tally of the results for the first five flights, and at last got the number correct. I guess they did go to the cameras.

But it’s kind of shocking to me that the tournament a would make such a big transcription mistakes, especially when they’re not physically bagging chips; and that they wouldn’t reconcile the number of entries and total chips with the final bag counts for each flight to prevent fraud and detect errors… and lastly, that it took two of us agitating for 24 hours to get the issue resolved.

I’ve gotten in the habit of always photographing my chip stack whenever I get up from the table in a casino, especially in tournaments. I would just recommend that people do the same… And not assume the casinos are being as diligent as you would expect.
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Great example why I won’t play tournaments hosted by unregulated card rooms. This is a real casino and they are make serious mistakes. Can’t imagine what’s going on at “local social poker clubs” with 6 day 1 flights and $1M guarantees.
 
Taghkanic said:
Bagged in Flight 3 of an all-week tournament at Rivers Schenectady. Turnout was very light on a Tuesday so we had to play all the way down to five. Day two is Sunday. A buddy is the current chip leader. First pic is at the first break, second when we were bagging up. But I’m on one buy-in and he bought three times so I’m already profitable, nyaahhhh.

This Rivers location is pretty rinky-dink, so no giant purse here, but first place should still be like $12-$15K. Anyway it had been a while since I had grinded a tourney, and was a relief to know I could still do it. Definitely got very lucky once to double up instead of bust late, but for the most part I just was patient and tried to pay more attention to what the villains were doing than the rest of the table, and find spots to exploit...

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FWIW, I finished 7th in this. 295 entries. One buy-in, so $2K+ profit. Was disappointed, though, because I went out on a total cooler: AK on an AK4 flop; villain had KK and slightly covered me. So instead of becoming chip leader, I was out. Tournaments are stupid lol
 

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