the monopoly/competition commission is there to protect the punter/individual no matter what the 'business' is. People would soon moan if one company bought all of one type of business and then had a free reign with no competition to do just as they pleased. The free drinks , bonus pots, money added to comps, and all the other 'freebies' fickle punters like to have would be that much easier to do away with.

Disagree.

There will always be freebies in the casino business.

Holland Casinos run all the legal casinos in the Netherlands and they still comp drinks, dinner for players.

Punters like to feel appreciated and special.

You've not been to an Australian casino I'd guess.

Had Toby Lewis to my left and he outplayed me all day and deserved to win imo. Thought overall it was a pretty tough final table.

"Just wanted to post about what happened to me in the gukpt main event, doing ok getting to the halfway break . Come back to my table and i have 10,000 chips missing i tell the floor manager straight away and he cutting a long story short does nothing about it and tells me to get on with it and starts the next level running,2 days of graft playing well and then this happens i should have had 61,300 and had to start with 51,300 i lost the plot and lasted a stupid 12 mins later so gutted and feel let down".

"It was Zach who made the call to carry on, i had 3 Grovesner staff come to me later and appologise my head was totally fcked and i am convinced i would have folded the aj if i was still in a proper frame of mind it is really gutting 12 away from money aswell bit of a sickner saved up the £1000 aswell so double slap.I was gonna email the gukpt head guy buts what the fucking point and no they did not check cameras, they did fck all"

"Well after your responses to this i will try to get a fully explained answer as to what action was taken, i will get this in writing and then see what you guys think. My exact words to the tourney director were "so basically after 2 days of graft and £1000 of my money your saying tough nothing i can do." his reply was a simple Yes sorry".

It was after the dinner break, we had played for 4 hours returned after the buffet, the reason i spotted it straight away was the fact that the 10k was 2 5k yellow chips the only 2 yellow chips in my stack.Got to table and no yellow chips to be seen,the last hand before the break i got moved tables one of the dealers watched me move my chips to the next table and when asked by zach told him i deffo had 2 yellow chips but could not tell him the exact chip count,during the break 1 dealer counted all the chips on the table and it was on his word that the whole thing stood. Basically they showed me a peace of scrap paper with the counts on and had me down for 51,300 not 61,300

Anyone who knows waspy knows he's a great lad. Such a shame.

Are you talking about GUKPT London or the Blackpool main event. If this happened at Blackpool I was at your table and you forgot to mention that everyone at your table agreed to fold and give you the blinds and antes the first hand back so you recovered ~6000 of the chips lost. If this wasn't at Blackpool ignore this.