Poker Tourney Director - Opinion poll - Part Five

In a big-ish poker tournament (40 runners) you get down to final table and perform the chip-up process as well as making a note of the stack sizes for the game report to follow. There is exactly 120,000 chips in play (40 x 3k chips).

When the game gets to heads up both players ask for a break and you decide that's OK. A quick chip count shows one player with 65k and the other with 55k exactly

They return, and battle it out until there is a winner. As you collect the chips, you notice that ten 1k chips are missing.
Both the players are regulars and have never broken a rule or been given a warning.

What do you do?

Quote: WizardofEngland

There is exactly 120,000 chips in play (40 x 3k chips)
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Ten 1k chips are missing.

Those chips were mis-counted long before the break.

Who can say when the chips dissapeared?

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Even if it have been a single 3k chip, unless the surveilance video can show who took the chip, you simply retire that chipset (or at least that denomination), and pay the winners their correct payout.

there were 40 x 3k starting stacks. I am sure 3k chips dont even exist.....

I would make a search and note the players. Maybe ask them to empty their pockets. This could be taken as "chip dumping to yourself." Or in other words if you are in a situation in a tourney where you feel your fate is sealed, rathole some chips for the next one. Honest players deserve the benefit of the dout, trust but verify.

Quote: AZDuffman

I would make a search and note the players. Maybe ask them to empty their pockets. This could be taken as "chip dumping to yourself." Or in other words if you are in a situation in a tourney where you feel your fate is sealed, rathole some chips for the next one. Honest players deserve the benefit of the doub, trust but verify.

that would be my assumption. How they would get them into play is the question, and they could be split across multiple players, and if you start moving players from one table to another, it would be hard to know the origin. Unless you have a back up set of chips, which I guess is pretty unlikely for a tourney game, its hard to combat.

Quote: WizardofEngland

that would be my assumption. How they would get them into play is the question, and they could be split across multiple players, and if you start moving players from one table to another, it would be hard to know the origin. Unless you have a back up set of chips, which I guess is pretty unlikely for a tourney game, its hard to combat.

Were are a pretty small card room, and we have backup chips.

Quote: Croupier

Were are a pretty small card room, and we have backup chips.

thats good to know, I just never seen them use any other type.