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#1023 – 2010 WSOP #4 – Seen and Heard at the Series #4 – Banned Forever

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[subsequent note - due to the popularity of this post, I have written further the issue of bad behavior at the WSOP.]

How do you get banned for life from the World Series of Poker? According to Tournament Director Jack Effel, “You don’t take someone else’s chips.” This is apparently what happened to the player who escorted from the Amazon Room during the third level of play in the $1,000 NLHE on Saturday afternoon.

Several players at our table noticed a fiftyish-looking man with gray hair, wearing a baseball cap, being escorted from the Amazon room by three Harrah’s security guards. The player in seat one asked Jack Effel, when he walked by a half-hour later, what happened to the guy, “so I don’t do the same thing.”

Jack explained that Baseball Cap was in a hand with another player when the announcement came that level 2 had ended and the 20-minute break was starting. As is usually the case, the players not in the hand got up and left the table. The two remaining players played out the hand and our culprit happened to win it. As the dealer pushed the pot his way and he started raking it in, he just pulled the chips in with one hand. He set his other hand down in the spot next to him as if he was using it for leverage to lean forward to pull in the chips. In fact, he placed that hand over a stack of chips of the player next to him (who had left the table like all the others for break). As he was pulling in the pot with one hand, he noticed the dealer’s eyes move off him and at that moment pulled in the chips that were underneath his other hand. To the naked eye it just looked like he was pulling in the chips with both hands.

I don’t know whether the adjacent player returned and noticed the missing chips or if this was discovered some other way, but a look at the tape confirmed it and the offending player was gone.

Jack Effel concluded the explanation by saying, “He’ll be banned from the World Series forever.”

[Subsequent note: if you are interested in reading more about issues involving bad behavior at the WSOP and Harrah's response, see Banned Forever, Part II.]

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19 Responses to “#1023 – 2010 WSOP #4 – Seen and Heard at the Series #4 – Banned Forever”

  1. fred duuj Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 12:24 am

    Poker IS A REAL HONARABLE SPORT,LOL

  2. nonamenoname Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 4:37 am

    They should put the name and photo of this jackass on the front page of wsop.com.

  3. HungryBruce Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    We might bluff and take pots from our oppenents. But literally stealing a next person chips, hell no. Well served ban for life, he should even be banned from online poker too. Lets see his picture and name.

  4. whatsthat? Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    this man should be banned from all poker events and casinos. realy the worst thing you can do.

  5. SCOTT DIAMOND Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    He should have been arrested for theft and booked at LVMPD. teach him a lesson more than the ban will.

  6. Scott Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 12:53 am

    No class at all. Should be charged with a crime for that.

  7. mike Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 am

    We definitely need his name and face. It will be interesting if he’s an online player, but it’s just a tad bit harder to rake other people’s chips online.

    What a noob.

  8. barnesy Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 1:30 am

    In the old days they would take thieves out the back and break a few things. Bring back the old days.

  9. tim Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 2:42 am

    funny guy i did this once but didnt get caught and it actually helped me make it to the pay out. knowing i could get a life ban i probably wouldnt do it anymore hahaha lucky me :)

  10. Henreiman Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Real intelligent guy. Tried to go for the smooth move, planned it all out, felt like a genius, and forgot that everything in a casino is monitored. Like the guy in a 1k event is really going to not realize that an entire stack is gone.

  11. Rich Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 am

    They should include this guy at the End of Season awards, and Award him a Year’s Supply of Summer’s Eve or Massengil for being such a douche.

  12. Mike Says:
    June 3rd, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    Does anyone know what happens to the chips of the guy who did the stealing and got disqualified? Do they just remove his chips from play, or is there something else that they do here?

  13. 7 Dewey Says:
    June 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    This is just one reason guns are not allowed in casinos. Good lord. Tim, I’m not very happy with you either. Cheating is a big NO NO!! This creep definitely got what he deserved.

  14. 69 off Says:
    June 4th, 2010 at 2:51 am

    the chips are taken out of play. i was at the table and the player whose chips were taken alerted tourney officials. play was actually stopped while they looked at the cameras. originally they gave chips back to the losing player in the last hand and the player whose chips were taken. they gave the thief the benefit of the doubt, made everything right and resumed play. then after reviewing tape again i suppose the offense was obvious and removed the thief. they only took chips from the player that lost the hand that he shouldnt have gotten

  15. 69 off Says:
    June 4th, 2010 at 2:52 am

    they EVEN (not only) took chips from the player that lost the last hand (and the thief’s whole stack)

  16. Joe M Says:
    June 4th, 2010 at 3:07 am

    @ Mike
    I’d imagine they would return the estimated stack to the original owner and the remaining chips should be blinded off. Have to keep the chips in play IMO.

  17. Jo Says:
    June 6th, 2010 at 2:36 am

    what’s the problem? if u are able to raising with any 2 cards just to steals someone else’s blinds, why not do it with your hands too? the way is different, but the meaning is the same…
    keep stealing! go! go! go!

  18. Russ Hamilton Says:
    July 6th, 2010 at 2:02 am

    Amateur Hour! I mean if you are going to steal chips from people, at least make sure you can get away with it.

  19. Justin Bonomo Says:
    July 16th, 2010 at 5:26 am

    I’ve invited the guy to join me on the next taping of PokerStars.net – The Big Game.

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