Woman Gives Birth While Still Alive In Poker Tournament, Husband Takes Over Her StackPlayer-Friendly Rule Lets Katrina Sheary's Husband Play |
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About a week ago, Australian poker player Katrina Sheary had bagged her chip stack in one of the preliminary events of the 2016 Aussie Millions tournament series in Melbourne when she came home and not long after went into labor. Unable to return to play the next day after giving birth, her husband, Peter Sheary, took over her chip stack.
Peter went on to finish in 25th for $6,495 in the A$1,025+125 buy-in no-limit hold’em event that attracted a field of 1,320 players.
Crown Poker’s Joel Williams called it a “unique situation.”
“The clause has existed in our Tournament Terms and Conditions for many years, although I am certain that this is the first time it has ever been implemented,” Williams told Card Player. “Katrina was heavily pregnant through her successful opening event flight 3 efforts, although she was not actually due for some weeks. We then got the call 24 hours after she bagged for the night that she had actually given birth.”
Williams said that the casino’s terms and conditions state that a substitute can take over a stack in extreme circumstances only, “provided that the substitute has not already participated in any stage of the tournament.”
“It does seem player friendly, although it is actually extremely difficult to manipulate, and is obviously at the TD’s discretion,” he added.
When the World Series of Poker unveiled its November Nine format over five years ago, there were questions about what would happen if a player passed away during the fourth-month hiatus. The rules do state that if a player is forced to miss the final table for whatever reason they will be blinded off.
There really aren’t many reasons to let your stack blind off in the middle of a poker tournament, though it does happen. Just weeks ago, a couple of gamblers abandoned their stacks in a poker tournament in Manilla in order to play baccarat. In the 2012 WSOP main event, a player didn’t show up on the fifth day of action, which was a Sunday, because of religious reasons.
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