Sooo... it looks like a WSOP bracelet was just blatantly chip dumped right on stream

[go_buccos]

Great write-up as always Druff.

Both the WSOP & WPT need to pay these 2 their money ASAP. We are talking about a million fucking dollars here. A deal such as this is clearly the most likely outcome in a situation such as this. The WPT and WSOP can continue their dick measuring contest after they pay up.

The WPT should keep their promos for their own tournament series. The WSOP can institute a new rule regarding how players must handle these kinds of promos going forward But again, these types of things can be mitigated if you stick to the tournaments you run. For instance, they can make it where bonuses will be given to all players who reach the final table with someone alive for a million dollars and ban any kind of deal making regarding the player alive for the bonus score.

Both entities should take it as a learning experience, pay up and then shut the fuck up about it. As long as there is no solid evidence of collusion before heads up play, then fucking pay.

I actually think Druff came up with a great solution…no bracelet awarded. Or better yet engrave a huge asterisk on the bracelet and give it to the guy. But I’m sure the WSOP is too cheap to do so. Anyways, not giving the bracelet is a way of them “taking action”. But pay them now!

I’m just getting caught up on this.

My thoughts:

A.) I agree with the vast majority here you say that any player who WOULDN’T have done exactly what Carroll did is a fool.

B.) WPT should have seen this coming ten million miles away.

C.) Bracelets just don’t mean what they used to anymore

D.) Todd’s solution is the only reasonable one, provided it can be established to everyone’s satisfaction that no collusion occurred prior to heads up play.

I wouldn’t put it past WSOP to try to weasel out of paying the players here. Of course gaming will have something to say about that, but WSOP just basically got owned by ClubWPT here and they have to be massively embarrassed. They may attempt to temporarily withhold payment as some kind of means of saving face.