PARIS WPT DAY 3

[tikay]

Now, controversy here.

Peter Heighway, the Betfair Qualifier who exited in 17th / 18th has sought our help with a BIG problem, because nobody from Betfair is here, oddly. So I have put him in touch with Ruru.

Peter says he diid NOT do a "lets split it 50%-50% whoever wins" deal. And he reckons (& we don't know in truth) that HE had the most chips. (If you recall, two low stacks exited in the same hand). So, Peter goes to collect his 18th place money, & they say they paid it to the De Silva guy, who has now left the premises! Peter is VERY upset. Anyway, with respect, I can't get involved in sorting it, but the fella lacks experience in these matters, & someone needs  to look after his interests.

[Karabiner]

I did mention that it seemed strange at the time ..........

 

[ifm]

OMG that is a bad tale, i hope it's sorted quickly for the fella

[tikay]

And MORE controversy. Imran (?), the Milton Keynes  guy who exited in 18th, with such good grace after a bit of an "incident" (see earlier in this thread), has seen "an official" and been told that the hand should have been ruled as "dead", but it's too late to do anything about it. He is a really nice guy, & has taken his exit, which happened in odd circumstances, with great dignity.

[henrik777]

Now, controversy here.

Peter Heighway, the Betfair Qualifier who exited in 17th / 18th has sought our help with a BIG problem, because nobody from Betfair is here, oddly. So I have put him in touch with Ruru.

Peter says he diid NOT do a "lets split it 50%-50% whoever wins" deal. And he reckons (& we don't know in truth) that HE had the most chips. (If you recall, two low stacks exited in the same hand). So, Peter goes to collect his 18th place money, & they say they paid it to the De Silva guy, who has now left the premises! Peter is VERY upset. Anyway, with respect, I can't get involved in sorting it, but the fella lacks experience in these matters, & someone needs to look after his interests.

Aside from the deal aspect. Surely the tournament staff counted the chips to know who to give the money too ?

If not why did they give the money to one person ?

Sandy

[Shaa]

that is outrageous has he taken the lot??    surely the ruling indicates that Peter is 18th based on chip counts? therefore the organisers are at fault.  Or did he take half the prize money??

[ifm]

he did say earlier in this thread that the deal was to split it if they both went out on that hand, they would give the cash to the higher chip of the 2 then split it themselves i assume

[Djinn]

In about 10 minutes the table has reached Final Proportions (6)

Gilles Haddad fell to fellow Frenchman Didier Leroy in a battle of the blinds that gave them both full houses.       His prize:  44,970

Then Didier called an all-in preflop raise from the (now chip leader) Michel Zajdenberg.  He called quickly with KK but Michel had AA.      His prize:  59,960

The remaining 6 set about filling in their Player Bios to give Mike Sexton something to talk about

Michel Zajdenberg  758,000
Roland de Wolfe    728,000
Juha Helppi           352,000
Alan Goehring       327,000
Curt Kohlberg       126,000
Tim Anders           116,000

So we'll see them tomorrow, and you'll see them on TV.

P.S.  Two out of my three picks for the final when we started today are still there - Roland and Juha.  Not bad.

[RED-DOG]

I feel really sorry for Peter Heighway, hope someone sorts him out, who said they did a deal, and who gets the last word on this?

[henrik777]

he did say earlier in this thread that the deal was to split it if they both went out on that hand, they would give the cash to the higher chip of the 2 then split it themselves i assume

According to Tilay he says he thinks he had more chips.

There would be no doubt if they had been counted by staff. Given they paid the total to one person they would need a chip count to know who had the most. The deal for this part is meaningless.

Sandy

[tikay]

Hi Sandy (Henrik), well, it's POSSIBLE that they DID, & paid out correctly. We only have Peter's side of the tale.

But, by a quirk, Peter has a little notebook, in which he has annotated EVERY HAND, & his chip count, since the tourney began, he updated it at the table after each hand. He says that proves his case, but of course, it's "inadmissable evidence". They DID film the hand though, so maybe it will all get sorted.

You have to feel for Peter though. He's battled for days, thinks he's won 15,000, & he's not got a bean, does not know how to sort it, & has nobody to assist him. We (blonde) have put him in touch with Ruru (via my phone) but it's not easy if you are not here. Irrespective of the rights and wrongs, the incident has soured what should have been a lovely memory for Peter.

[Karabiner]

What he actually said was that he didn't make a deal, but he understood that the rule was to split.

he said that it was different on Betfair. (See page 4 of this thread).

It stinks !

[Shaa]

Sandy

Peter definately had more chips.....

[owner]

After re-reading vah gogh's post it seems that that other guy told him that they would split, as though it were a ruling.  ie. NOT a deal.  Then the other guy seems to have gone and taken all the money.  Not good 

[RED-DOG]

How come he "didnt get a bean" anyway, he should at least have half