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  • Using these... big mistake

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  • moose wrote: »
    Using these... big mistake

    dice_1_l.jpg


    But, those are official casino weight chips . . . what could go wrong?
  • I hope WPT Fallsview will learn from WPT Borgata and implement security procedures next month. If Borgata has good video surveillance, the scumbag cheaters who snuck in one million worth of fake chips should be caught, and jailed just like Russ Hamilton, Ray Bitar,...
    Oh, wait!
  • When i played at Montreal-playground, I played the satty for the main event and got a ticket.. The chips used at the satty were the same at the main event.. After the satty was done the chips were all over the tables.. Its easy to take a few 5ks and add them to your chips later at the main event using the exact chips? How can this be avoided?
  • Hobbes wrote: »

    Interesting that they're saying it's unclear if any players will be getting their buyins refunded. I've never heard of something like this before. Would this be standard to not refund?
  • Interesting that they're saying it's unclear if any players will be getting their buyins refunded. I've never heard of something like this before. Would this be standard to not refund?

    How can they keep the buy-in ? The tournament didn't finish or was an unfair contest to begin with. Everyone should get their money back, except, perhaps, the admin charge because dealers, etc.. need to be paid.
  • wow that pic, the two different 5k chips? what a weird situation lol

    one benefit of online poker tournies i guess.
  • Monoxide wrote: »
    wow that pic, the two different 5k chips?
    Is it the pic below?
    borgata-counterfeit-chips-225x300.jpg
    Are the orange chips the real 5K chips?
  • In your post, the there's two different shades of grey/silver for the 5k chips that are pretty distinguishable. Whoever tried to pull it off had balls and little brains.
  • In your post, the there's two different shades of grey/silver for the 5k chips that are pretty distinguishable. Whoever tried to pull it off had balls and little brains.
    The real Borgata chips looks really amateurish too. I think moose has better and harder-to-fake 5K chips than Borgata!
    sn1perb0y wrote: »
    When i played at Montreal-playground, I played the satty for the main event and got a ticket.. The chips used at the satty were the same at the main event.. After the satty was done the chips were all over the tables.. Its easy to take a few 5ks and add them to your chips later at the main event using the exact chips? How can this be avoided?
    A standard procedure of a good poker room is to track the number of chips both before and after any tournament. At Fallsview, I have been told that ... nevermind, the less the wanna-be cheaters know about the security procedures that will be implemented at WPT Fallsview after Matt Savage talks to them about best practices, the better.

    Well-trained tournament staff can be vigilant about spotting the many ways scumbags will try to cheat in a casino. I believe a savvy player noticed the different looking chip soon after the cheater lost them in a pot and smartly mentioned it to the table, but unfortunately the dealer didn't tell the floor to take a look and possibly notify surveillance before it was too late to confiscate the fake chips from the cheaters' stacks and having to cancel the $2 million event.
  • After playing the WPT Fallsview satellites and having a New Year's Eve celebration at Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouse, my "semi-pro" friends told me they were taking a break from the WPT sats. and invited me to drive with them to WPT Borgata. Obviously, I told them, "Are you f***ing nuts with the 30% withholding rape then having to lie to the IRS like RMS if you want to try to get it all back? Why don't you knuckleheads just keep winning your WSOP rings and lucky huge cashes in the withholding-free tourneys like WPT Montreal & WSOP Lac-Leamy?" :D They conceded that they lose part of their big bankroll when they travel to US tournaments.

    One of them made it to Day 2 of Borgata, then the "ChipGate" cheating started. I believe Borgata discovered the cheating on Thursday night after adding the total chip counts, which means that Day 3 is corrupted with 27 players left. A fair way of distributing the players' prize pool is by chip counts at the last legitimate chip counts, i.e., the beginning of Day 2. So players that were eliminated in Day 1 would get no money back, then players that made it to Day 2 would get their portion on an ICM-based formula. PartyPoker has lots of crashes, and it uses a non-ICM formula to give players' approximate equity at the time of the crash; PokerStars may use a better formula.

    It is a huge public relations disaster to Borgata, especially after spending huge marketing dollars on the new online poker site. They may decide to return the fees to all the players and swallow the huge loss.
  • Theres word that theyre ICMing the last 27?

    Thats the most absurd thing Ive ever heard if true.

    This benefits only the cheater.

    Either you ICM after the last legit chip count or you play it out at this point.
  • Wetts1012 wrote: »
    Theres word that theyre ICMing the last 27?

    Thats the most absurd thing Ive ever heard if true.

    This benefits only the cheater.

    Either you ICM after the last legit chip count or you play it out at this point.

    I'd have to agree that an audit of the chips would have to be done, but how do you decide who acquired what chips legitimately and who didn't at this point? How long have the non legit chips been in play? At some point, you'd just have to say run it out or don't.

    Is there a precedent in this regard? There must be.
  • I believe Borgata discovered the cheating on Thursday night after adding the total chip counts, which means that Day 3 is corrupted with 27 players left. A fair way of distributing the players' prize pool is by chip counts at the last legitimate chip counts, i.e., the beginning of Day 2.

    I've been keeping up with the thread on 2+2 & this does not seem to be the case. A player reported that a fake chip was discovered and removed from his table during play on day 2. Players have also reported that bagged chips were not verified by tournament staff or dealers so the chip counts aren't reliable either.

    This event was held on different levels of the casino at the same time. Tables broke and players were left unattended with their chips as they made their way to a different spot in the casino. Players reported seeing entrants go for bathroom breaks and stop to get into cafeteria lines with their chips in hand.

    Such a cluster#@!$!
    Theres word that theyre ICMing the last 27?

    Nothing official-just speculation -afaik

    Another interesting note- Men the Master finished in 28th in this event.
  • Gottaget wrote: »
    Players have also reported that bagged chips were not verified by tournament staff or dealers so the chip counts aren't reliable either.
    Tournament directors will have to improve their procedures now. For example, I always wondered why casinos with regular tournaments never bother to count out each player's chip stacks in the final table to verify that the total number of chips make sense. I've only seen it once in a non-televised tournament when I was covering a tournament at GBH for Canadian Poker Player magazine and I requested a chip count of everybody in the final table; I recorded the numbers and the total made sense.
    Tables broke and players were left unattended with their chips as they made their way to a different spot in the casino. Players reported seeing entrants go for bathroom breaks and stop to get into cafeteria lines with their chips in hand.
    Such a cluster#@!$!
    WTF!? At the WSOP, I had to pay attention to the detailed step-by-step instructions on how to move my chips from one room, then the players were escorted by a couple of floor people to the main room. Luckily for me, I ended up in the ESPN TV table with Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth!

    If all of the above negligence by Borgata is verified by the gaming commission, then Borgata is responsible for its very expensive screw-up and should do the following:
    - Pay out the final 27 who did not cheat (based on their ICM equity if not allowed to play it out),
    - Let the other cashers keep the prize they had already collected and hidden away from Borgata :p and
    - Refund everybody else including my "knucklehead" friends their entire buy-in back.
  • How long have the non legit chips been in play?


    Casinos have hundreds of cameras. A close examination of the footage would have revealed the culprit.
  • "Revealing" and "convicting" can be two different things. Will depend on how good the resolution of these cameras is, and whether or not these scum were stupid enough to do the deed in view of the electronic eyes.
  • JohnnieH wrote: »
    Casinos have hundreds of cameras. A close examination of the footage would have revealed the culprit.

    The problem here seems to be that the tourneys are in convention space, away from the more heavily covered gaming space. I might be wrong though.
  • I heard the other night about someone once trying to sneak in fake chips to a Red Hot Poker tournament which is a free bar tournament. A lot of effort for a free t-shirt.
  • Yes, there are a few scumbag cheaters in any poker game. I remember another bar freeroll tournament where somebody pocketed 1,000 chips from the open chip case that the negligent employee refused to keep closed, then the cheater was banned for life from the freeroll league. The cheater kept begging the next season to be given a second chance.
    pokerJAH wrote: »
    I heard the other night about someone once trying to sneak in fake chips to a Red Hot Poker tournament which is a free bar tournament. A lot of effort for a free t-shirt.
  • sn1perb0y wrote: »
    When i played at Montreal-playground, I played the satty for the main event and got a ticket.. The chips used at the satty were the same at the main event.. After the satty was done the chips were all over the tables.. Its easy to take a few 5ks and add them to your chips later at the main event using the exact chips? How can this be avoided?

    This is incorrect. The chips used in a satellite are never the same as for a main event, in fact main event chips are not used for any other tournaments. Also, chips are never at a table for even 1 minute without a dealer at the table. It may have looked chaotic at the time, but it was not chaos at all for staff.
  • mikelbyl wrote: »
    This is incorrect. The chips used in a satellite are never the same as for a main event, in fact main event chips are not used for any other tournaments. Also, chips are never at a table for even 1 minute without a dealer at the table. It may have looked chaotic at the time, but it was not chaos at all for staff.

    I'm not sure if its the exact chips, but the domination and color looked alike..After the satellite was done everyone was standing and congratulating each other and chips were all over the two tables that were left..It was my first live tournament and wasn't 100% sure but thanx for the info
  • It would be very unusual for any reputable casino to use the same chips for satellites or small daily tournaments as a "main event" series. I've played most casinos in AC and Vegas and I'm not aware of any that do.
    Precisely for that reason... From reading the 2+2 thread it does not appear that was the case there either...

    It's been 3 years or so since I have played tournaments at the Borgata but I know at that time they were different..
  • Hmmm...but in casinos that have daily tournaments you could take 20k off your stack in a small bi tournament and add it in easily in a bigger tournament as they use the same chips every day.
  • good to see.....

    He's not too bright obv....Day 2 chip lead? Shouldn't you want less attention to yourself? And flushing extras down the toilet is just lol
  • Comp beat me to it . . . nice to see they nailed someone. Now to clean up the rest of the rats.
  • In another poker cheating incident, Nuclear Weapons Officer Suspended for Fake Poker Chips (with video report) :(

    So this is why Joan Rivers makes an over generalization of us poker players.

    Joan Rivers "You're a Poker Player" - YouTube
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