Bubble Controversy Takes Place At Sydney Star Poker Championship Main EventStaff Announced That Players Were In The Money When Tournament Was Actually On The Bubble |
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There are only a handful of major poker tournaments in Australia each year. This year, one of them came with a controversial ruling on Day 2.
The AUD$3,000 Sydney Star Poker Championship main event wrapped up Monday with Hamish Crawshaw topping the 600-entry field and winning AUD$352,800.
On Sunday, with the bubble looming, and the top 63 players earning at least a min-cash of AUD$5,494, the tournament staff miscounted the number of players remaining and told the final 64 players that they were in the money, according to a poster on a poker forum, and confirmed by the tournament’s live updates.
The staff announced that two players were knocked out on the same hand, there would be no hand-for-hand play and that everyone was in the money.
Except they weren’t. Play went on for ‘another 10-15 minutes’ before the tournament director got back on the microphone and told the field that they were in fact, not in the money.
Incredibly, nobody was eliminated during that stretch, and there were still 64 players remaining. The staff announced that they would start hand-for-hand play at that point and move forward normally for the remainder of the tournament.
According to the poster, an argument ensued between some of the players still in the event and the tournament director. Some players wanted the casino to pay all the players remaining since the staff’s mistake impacted the play of the tournament.
The tournament director made a call and confirmed to the players that the casino would not be paying the final 64 players. The poster then notes that he was eliminated on the bubble when he lost his last 56 big blinds with top full house against rivered quads.
Australia’s biggest poker tournament of the year is the Aussie Millions, which takes place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne every year in January or February. Last February, Bryn Kenney took down the A$10,600 main event for A$1,272,598.
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