Texas Holdem Poker - Cheating in Tournaments
Friday, December 19, 2008 16:37So an interesting post recently came up on our site regarding cheating in tournaments.
A player started a thread claiming that while he was recently playing in a No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament at Star City in Sydney, he noticed players blatantly adding chips to their stacks during breaks.
You can see the whole thread here. Cheating thread on PokerNetwork.
While such a claim is easy to make in a public forum, what is not so easy to do is to bring it to the attention of the Tournament Director. Never should a player that sees such a thing occur in a tournament ignore such a thing, as they then become liable for the cheating themselves. It is the duty of every player in a tournament to protect all players and the integrity of the game at all times. This is clearly stated in the TDA Rules, in rule #12.
TDA RULE 12: "Players are obligated to protect the other players in the tournament at all times."
I hope that players out there playing Texas Hold'em realize the importance of maintaining the integrity of the game, and that it not just the dealers and the Tournament Director who should be responsible for policing this, but also it is their duty as well, perhaps even more so than anyone else.
Comments
LoneRhino wrote:
Not a clue what your talking about.
Would you like to expand on this?
That would be your cue to add more content to your original post. Okay?
Not sure what more needs to be said, did you read the thread on the forum?
Actually, from what I read in the thread, the player that is complaining of the cheating did not report it because he saw the player as a bad player and someone he could get chips from.
He has no reason to complain since admitting this. Someone cheated and he let it continue because he thought he could take advantage of it, thus cheating the other players out of being treated fairly.
Alright.... Let's assume that the player who observed the "Chip Adding" instantly
reported the problem to the tournament director. What action would you recommend
that the tournament director take, assuming that he believed the accusations?
If all chips in the accused players stack are found to be valid tournament chips,
then the only remaining meaningful action would be to halt the *entire* tournament
(assuming that some table consolidation had already occurred) and count all chips
in play to determine if there is more chip value than the value of all starting stacks
combined. This would be even more difficult to determine if any color-up had occurred.
Not many tournament directors would be willing to take these actions, especially in a
high dollar multi-table tournament and the fact that the accused player would probably
be a "regular" to have removed valid chips from a previous tournament at that casino.
gayyyyyy
Not a clue what your talking about.