Glantz Doubles Up, Controversy Follows

Kevin Taylor

Level 19 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

We just had in interesting situation develop over at Matt Glantz's table. Glantz doubled through one of our big stacks, Jason Acosta, when his held up against Acosta's all in preflop. However, it wasn't until another hand was dealt and completed that the controversy occurred.

Glantz counted out his chips, and realized that he was 10,000 short. The all in total was for 58,500, meaning that he should have 128,500 total. However, when he counted out his chips, he only had 118,500, meaning he was 10,000 short.

The floor who was watching the double up came over, and said that while she didn't hear how much the total was, she did confirm that Acosta had only put out seven grey chips, meaning he was indeed 10,000 short. The floor told Acosta to give the 10,000 over, but he refused, saying "you can't rewind the action after a hand has already been played."

Acosta asked for another floor to be called over, and the original floor went off to find the main floor man. All this time, there was no hand being dealt at this table, and a short time later, play was stopped at all tables until the situation was sorted out. Eventually, the main floor came over, and made the same ruling, telling Acosta to send the 10,000 over.

Once again, Acosta said he would not do it, presenting the same argument he did before. By this point, the entire table was getting restless, and was telling Acosta to simply pay the 10,000 since he was not going to get a different ruling. Eventually, Acosta resigned to his fate, handed over the 10,000, and said "that's the worst ruling in history."

After all the dust settled, Glantz got his full double up to 128,500, while Acosta dropped down to 270,000. When it was all done, Christian Harder joked from a nearby table "favorable ruling for the super star!" Much of the table got a laugh out of that, except for Acosta of course.