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    Player disqualified from WSOP, jailed, and banned from Caesars properties after jokingly grabbing someone else's stack

    Interesting day at WSOP yesterday:



    Over at 2015 World Champion Joe McKeehen's table in the Brasilia Red section, George Belianin has been disqualified in the 2019 WSOP Main Event after not even one hour of play on Day 1c.

    According to several players at the table, after winning a small pot, the #5 seat George Belianin reached out to his left-hand neighbor's stack as well and scooped up his entire stack in the process to add it to his. Allegedly, Belianin did so with a smile on his face.

    Belianin subsequently got disqualified for stealing another person's chips at the table and will not be active in the 2019 Main Event anymore. It was the Vice President of the World Series of Poker Jack Effel who came over and escorted Belianin out of the tournament area. His chips will be taken out of play, while his buy-in stays in the prize pool.
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    He posted an apology.

    In my opinion, this was a severe overreaction on Caesars' part. Unless it was a real attempt to steal someone's chips, or if he grabbed the chips in a fashion to where they mixed in with his own, he should have just gotten a penalty. And if they really felt the need to disqualify him, he definitely shouldn't have been permabanned from Caesars properties (and the WSOP) or arrested -- yet he suffered both of those fates.

    Here's the apology:






    My response:




    I was told that the offender, Georgii Belianin, plays a lot on wsop.com and is generally well regarded in the poker community.

    Strangely, this guy suffered these harsh consequences, while the guy who threw his shoe at the dealer/players and whipped out his dick didn't get arrested -- at least not until he did the same thing at Luxor.

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    Okay, I got a little more info, and I guess a disqualification was in order, but a lifetime ban and arrest was still too much.

    Here's a report from Tom Peterson, who was at his table:

    The guy came in and sat down at Seat 6. The dealer told him to get in Seat 5. He didn’t speak a lot of English, he was from another country because he had a passport.

    He said, "I want to play. Deal."

    The dealer said, "No you need to move."

    He finally moves, plays a couple of hands, plays them well, loses both of them. Then like in the seventh hand he wins the pot: 1,600 in the pot - one black chip, one pink chip, one yellow chip. The dealer pushes it to him and he just grabs the other pile and puts it right into his without hesitation. The floor came over and they DQed him.

    He was drunk. I could smell him. I owned a bar for 17 years and I know he was drunk. He was drinking Jack and Cokes. While he was standing where they told him to stand the waiter brought him another drink. I asked the waiter, "What’d you give that guy?" and he said Jack and Coke.

    He took the guy’s chips and put them in his stack. He didn’t set them next to him, he threw them in. He had a pile, he had a mess. Was it a joke? He’s drunk, I don’t know. He was upset, yelling "Help me, help me, they’re taking me out." I heard he got arrested outside too.

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    nothing you posted suggests he was joking when he grabbed the other player's stack.

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    From what I heard, players at the table agreed it was probably a joke, but he was also a drunk mess and mashed them into his own chips.

    It was being described as him taking the other player's chips because he felt he should have won them with the huge hand he had.

    You know, as in, "Look at how huge my hand was, and all I got out of this was 1600?! I should have had that stack right there too!!!"

    I don't think it was a malicious attempt to steal chips, but I also think he was too smashed and didn't really know what he was doing.

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    thats not how rules work.
    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    From what I heard, players at the table agreed it was probably a joke, but he was also a drunk mess and mashed them into his own chips.

    It was being described as him taking the other player's chips because he felt he should have won them with the huge hand he had.

    You know, as in, "Look at how huge my hand was, and all I got out of this was 1600?! I should have had that stack right there too!!!"

    I don't think it was a malicious attempt to steal chips, but I also think he was too smashed and didn't really know what he was doing.
    ok so one possibility is that he took someone else's chips while drunk cause he was upset the pot he won was too small. the other possibilities are much worse.

    how is this even debatable that a lifetime ban is in order? is this a mumbles type thing? did you meet him irl?

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    if the stack grabber was tyde, i feel like the tone of this thread would be radically different.

     
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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

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