Technical disqualification

Lurking for awhile….first post. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Received this e-mail Friday about a tourney from 2 weeks ago…I had placed 3rd.

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Hello YZF,

Due to a technical disqualification in tournament ##11437735, you have
Been advanced to 2nd place and your account credited with $4.50.
Congratulations.

Regards,

Larry
PokerStars Support Team

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Good news but any clue what “technical disqualification” means? I’ve e-mail support with no response yet.

[mjm]

I'd guess collaboration.

[microbet]

Friendly word for collusion.

Do people bother to collude at that level? Maybe they were just screwing around. Maybe it was a bot.

[citanul]

to clarify before closing this:

the poker sites (particularly stars is better about this than party) say they attempt to return the money to the wronged parties when they detect that someone has cheated in some fashion. in this case the most likely thing that happened is that someone who finished above you was found to have cheated, most likely by collusion, and so they have confiscated his funds, and moved you up, and moved someone else up to 3rd.

citanul