Casinos always ask you to play by the rules or they bar you. In tournaments they give you a time away from the table while they blind you off.

On the flip side.. one of the world’s largest card clubs refuses to play by the rules. I’ve seen them post signs limiting tourney entry to 900 then sign up 1400. I’ve seen them saying rebuys are good for the first two levels and then after tourney starts extend it to the first three. I’ve seen them advertise only 2 add-ons after rebuys are over and then sell 10 add-ons to a single player, the list goes on and on.

All of these screw over the honest players who play by the rules. naturally the casino claims it’s not cheating on their part because every ad has in small print “the casino can modify any rule at their discretion”.

The reason they do this is simple, pure greed on the behalf of the tournament staff. They want the prize pool to be bigger. Bigger prize pool means a bigger tip for them (this casino keeps 3% of the prize pool for a tip for their tournament staff).

I make a decision to play a tournament based on the posted rules for the tournament. If they want to change the rules BEFORE a tournament starts that’s one thing, but to change the rules AFTER the start of a tournament is unfair and unethical.

They’ve done it to me and everyone else who played in tournaments there on more than one occasion. Needless to say, I no longer play there. I wish others would also boycott them, sigh, but they don’t so the casino keeps all it’s business and the casino keeps on doing it.

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