Situation - When someone has to leave - Page 2

gmunny · #11 02-09-2005, 10:20 PM

I had a similar situation at one of my home tourney's last year. I know we could have blinded him out, but because the person to his right may have more of an advantage to steal this guys blind, it was decided to split his chips evenly amongst the remaining players at his table. Although, this may have helped a low stack or give more ammo to a high stack, I and a few others thought it would be the most fair way.

We considered removing his chips from play, but in that tournament, the top 3 from each table made the final table, so it wouldn't be fair as they would have less chips to bring to the final table versus the others. If we didn't have the top 3 from each table going, I think the fairest thing would be to remove the chips from play. There has to be a rule somewhere on this.
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spicychili · #12 02-09-2005, 10:31 PM

Check out this PDF from homepokertourney.com

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http://www.homepokertourney.com/docs...rtourney-5.pdf

Not that this is a hard and fast rule but it is somewhere to start.

Also repeated on this page in HTML toward the bottom of the page.
http://www.homepokertourney.com/rules_tourney.htm

o0mr_bill0o · #13 02-10-2005, 03:05 AM

in theory, i'm sure the correct answer is to have him blinded off. but in reality, dude, come on, he's your friend. it's not like he said he had dan harrington on the line to finish off the game for him. let him do what he will. i think you're being very results oriented about this one...