WSOP Cancels Online Tournament, Almost Disqualifies Player

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has had to cancel an online event due to significant technical difficulties. In a separate case, the series almost disqualified the winner of another event who accused tournament staff of lying.

WSOP Had to Cancel an Online Event

WSOP has found itself in hot water after multiple players were unable to log in during its recent Online Bracelet Event #7. During the tournament, numerous participants experienced problems logging in due to technical issues. Despite this, the tournament continued at first, with participants’ chip balances diminishing.

Multiple players expressed frustration with these issues, venting about the server issues on social media. All of them were unhappy about the connectivity problems and some were very angry since they had taken days off to play.

Eventually, WSOP decided to cancel the event on its second day. However, this decision would come with its own set of issues since one player had landed a $100K bounty on the second day, shortly before the event was canceled. As of the time of this writing, WSOP has yet to confirm what will happen to this player and how the organizer will split the prizes.

Player Who Almost Got Disqualified Won Tournament

In the meantime, a player in a separate event almost got disqualified due to a quarrel with tournament staff. The quarrel was related to a coloring-up incident in which the leading player accused the dealers of lying.

Coloring up refers to the practice of exchanging smaller casino chips for larger ones to reduce table clutter. In this case, a player by the name of Tyler Brown had the most chips and was asked to color up all chips lower than 100,000.

Brown was playing in the $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack tournament and had accumulated the most chips of all players. When asked to color up, he offered to exchange 2 million chips since he wanted to keep some smaller ones too. However, the staff asked him to exchange 3 million.

At one point, the staff implied Brown hadn’t offered 2 million chips, although players were quick to defend him. As a result, he got frustrated and allegedly called the staff liars. Due to his words, WSOP contemplated disqualifying him.

Luckily, the tournament organizers decided against that and eventually allowed him to exchange his 2 million chips and serve a one-round penalty. Despite the penalty, Brown emerged victorious and took home some $178,126.

He eventually commented on his win, saying: “I very much prefer PLO. People that have gotten to know me originally thought of me as a No-Limit Hold’em player because of my first bracelet. I just really enjoy the strategy more.”