Tyler Brown penalized for refusing ridiculous over-color-up, then he wins bracelet anyway

Swearing pentaly...over a color up of chips... that's a first:

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"(WSOP Staff) came by in the middle of a level and they wanted to color up my chips," Tyler Brown explained. "I don't think I'd ever refused a color up doing this. But they wanted every single chip that I had that wasn't a 100k chip. So, I offered them giving them 2 million instead of 3 million, and keep two stacks of green. They refused, and they said they needed a full rack of green. I continued to refuse until they could give me an official ruling."

Brown continued to say that floor explained to him that the hand he was currently in was dead "because they needed to pull me away to talk to me." He claims the floor manager then told him that he never offered to exchange 2 million worth of 100k chips and "that I was refusing entirely."

"I may have yelled an expletive," Brown said.

That expletive, as he explained, got him in some hot water with the tournament staff. He was given a one-round penalty and faced potential disqualification deep in a bracelet event had he continued arguing with the floor manager. But he wasn't concerned with that happening.

"I would understand that. I think that they had no grounds to DQ me, personally. So, I felt really strongly about that. They had even threatened to over the color up situation. They threatened to DQ me, which is unbelievable. I was okay with a one-round penalty. I shouldn't have said what I said. I'm okay losing two big blinds."

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Brown was correct here.

For whatever reason, floorman "Anthony" went on a power trip, and wanted Brown to color up his slightly more than 3m chips into three single 1m chips, leaving him with just a little bit of change beyond that.

Anyone who has played tournaments knows that optics and table image are a real thing. You want that mountain of chips to intimidate opponents. It's simply not the same to have a few high denomination chips in front of you.

Brown even offered to color up 2 of the 3m that the floorman wanted, but the dude refused, and the huge argument ensued.

Brown's only black mark in the whole thing was telling the floorman (or supervisor?) to "fuck off". He got a 20-minute penalty there. No reason to do that. There's always time later to make a stink about what happened (as he did anyway).

Regardless, it didn't hurt him, because he won the bracelet anyway.



The WSOP has become obsessed with color-ups in the past decade or so. I'm not sure why this has happened.

Remember the 2000s, when people had mountains of chips in front of them? Not only did it make for great TV and still pics, but even when not depicted anywhere in media, it's fun for the player AND provides a strategic advantage if handled correctly.

I have also been the victim of ridiculous colorups at the WSOP, though not as egregious as this one. Like Brown, I tried to refuse, but was told that it was mandatory and I didn't have a choice. Not wanting to create a big hassle and get my mind rattled during a tournament where I'm otherwise doing well, I decided in those instances to just let it go.



They can't even claim that the color-ups save time during play, because they don't. Not only is the time negligible for someone to handle chips around a massive stack, but the availability for change for other players speeds things up when that's needed (which is often at the WSOP). Also, the WSOP doesn't seem to care much about pace of play, hence their lack of making rules against the Martin Kabrhels of the world, who stall every hand.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

Brown was correct here.

For whatever reason, floorman "Anthony" went on a power trip, and wanted Brown to color up his slightly more than 3m chips into three single 1m chips, leaving him with just a little bit of change beyond that.

Anyone who has played tournaments knows that optics and table image are a real thing. You want that mountain of chips to intimidate opponents. It's simply not the same to have a few high denomination chips in front of you.

Brown even offered to color up 2 of the 3m that the floorman wanted, but the dude refused, and the huge argument ensued.

Brown's only black mark in the whole thing was telling the floorman (or supervisor?) to "fuck off". He got a 20-minute penalty there. No reason to do that. There's always time later to make a stink about what happened (as he did anyway).

Regardless, it didn't hurt him, because he won the bracelet anyway.



The WSOP has become obsessed with color-ups in the past decade or so. I'm not sure why this has happened.

Remember the 2000s, when people had mountains of chips in front of them? Not only did it make for great TV and still pics, but even when not depicted anywhere in media, it's fun for the player AND provides a strategic advantage if handled correctly.

I have also been the victim of ridiculous colorups at the WSOP, though not as egregious as this one. Like Brown, I tried to refuse, but was told that it was mandatory and I didn't have a choice. Not wanting to create a big hassle and get my mind rattled during a tournament where I'm otherwise doing well, I decided in those instances to just let it go.



They can't even claim that the color-ups save time during play, because they don't. Not only is the time negligible for someone to handle chips around a massive stack, but the availability for change for other players speeds things up when that's needed (which is often at the WSOP). Also, the WSOP doesn't seem to care much about pace of play, hence their lack of making rules against the Martin Kabrhels of the world, who stall every hand.

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I swear some of these floor folks are morons. Why the hell would somebody be playing with 3 oversized chips and needing to get change made as soon as they play a hand. It will indeed slow everything down that the floor intended to avoid.