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so if none of his tablemates showed up for an hour he would've had to just sit there waiting? seems rather odd

surely once the cards are in the air he should be able to rape and pillage that table until the others turn up

Depends really. If it was cash then all the others would have been delt out anyway.

If it was tourny then im sure the rule is you need a min of 4 players on a 9 handed table and 3 on a 6max.

For how long?  If no one else turns up for an hour, what happens then?

But in the circumstances you're talking about a stack would count as a player.

This is different. There were sufficient stacks at the table to deal but as there was only one actual player they made him wait.

Seems very weird.

that rule is for when you have eliminations, you stop dealing and break/balance tables

in this situation there would've been 8 or 9 stacks which as matt points out would count as players

EPT London- you had to be 3 handed. Believe it's a ukipt rule as well

Subtle :)

Yeh subtle I did nothing in an EPT and min cash every stupid UKIPT

WPT rule? ;)

I think he should get the blinds as fast as the dealer can shuffle and deal out the hands. It'd look farcical but don't see why you wouldn't do this if the tournament clock is running.

I believe they stopped dealing when there was only him left.

 ;applause;

Saying that, if the comp had just started and the table was still empty then why was it opened? Dusk dont open a table with less than 4 players and balence with exsisting players.

The tournament will have started with 9 (or however many) allocated to that table. They just didn't turn up by the sounds of it.

in which case why should the man that turns up on time be punished.

what happens if 2 more turn up and he then walks away, this could happen all day until they all make day 2 (very unlikely and ridiculous) but could happen!!

Didn't this happen at the WSOP shootout tourney a few years ago. Was it Daniel Negranu, as the only player at the table and stealing all the blinds?

Happend I'n Mcr last year 1 lad on own got 30 mins 2 pinch blinds . The td told dealer 2 slow down lol. And was a 1k buy in

Hi All

Our current rule is there has ro be a minimum 2 players, however TD can use discretion after a few minutes.

We will have a lively debate at our next Supervisor meeting and let you know if we have decided to make a change.

Cheers

ACES

why?

There is more than 2 at the table. only one of them is seated tho.

this

it was a full table, it's a tournament, you deal to stacks not seated players

nah opposite iirc.  It was meant to be 10 handed as it was a shootout, but because of low numbers they made it 6 handed, so when ppl (includung DN) didn't turn up on time they lost many more chips than if it was 10 handed.

Once in the monte Carlo me and this guy were playing HU for about 15 minutes as no one else had turned up then Simon announced that there should be no play unless there were 3 active players at the table.

Yeah was it not Richard Hawes from Leeds  ( then possibly Mr Moansandlozs showed up)