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Title: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: theprawnidentity on May 19, 2013, 07:37:39 PM Playing a liveament this weekend and I'm sure I remember hearing something about a ruling if stacks on the table accidentally merge (by someone falling onto the table / earthquake / table falling over / any other unlikely scenario you can think of).
Have I heard someone say that should stacks accidentally become merged, then the average amount of chips have to be distributed to each player as there is no way to determine who had what stack? Or, and possibly more likely, have I completely made this rule up in my head and now believe that someone told me it? Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: outragous76 on May 19, 2013, 07:45:25 PM Playing a liveament this weekend and I'm sure I remember hearing something about a ruling if stacks on the table accidentally merge (by someone falling onto the table / earthquake / table falling over / any other unlikely scenario you can think of). Have I heard someone say that should stacks accidentally become merged, then the average amount of chips have to be distributed to each player as there is no way to determine who had what stack? Or, and possibly more likely, have I completely made this rule up in my head and now believe that someone told me it? can confirm it was dealer on our table said this Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: Cf on May 19, 2013, 08:26:40 PM I guess you'd hope there was a camera...
Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: paulhouk03 on May 19, 2013, 08:38:58 PM What about in cash games ?
Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: smurf on May 19, 2013, 09:55:14 PM like this rule...next time I am short stacked I might 'accidentally' trip, throw myself on the table and try to upend it to send them chips flying while gracefully apologizing
rotflmfao (joking-in case it did happen) Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: theprawnidentity on May 19, 2013, 09:59:47 PM Might be worth pointing out how easily these temporary tables fall over pre....
Title: Re: Stacks Accidentally Merging Rule???? Post by: relaedgc on May 20, 2013, 03:42:25 AM Having had this situation happen before, I handled it by asking the two individuals to come to a compromise on what they both believed they had, and subsequently made as fair a decision I could in returning the chips to the rightful players.
Divisible by average isn't fair if you've got 100k and 10k, as an extreme. I am sure there might come a time that someone would make such a resolution difficult, and it would therefore require a decision of this nature. But I think the game has to be fair, and dividing the chips equally isn't, in my opinion, the fairest course of action but the last course of action. |