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Afternoon all.
A bit of a problem came to light yesterday & Sky Poker want to make everyone aware. Sky-Ling is off today, & Sky-Des is in meetings most of the day, so I said I'd make a Post to explain it all.
Please read it carefully, & if you have any questions, fire away.
You may have noticed that Mr Dohx7 put a Post on this Thread at about midday yesterday, asking me to read a PM he'd sent me urgently.
The PM was a bit of a surprise, to put it mildly. Doh told me that he had suddenly realised that he had NOT met the TP criteria of playing "at least 10 SNG's at £11+". What he had done, without realising it, was play a lot of Heads Up SNG's - & forgotten to realise that a £10 Heads Up SNG only has a £0.50 Reg Fee, whereas all the other £10 SNG's have a £1 Reg Fee. He played 32 SNG's in total, but in fact, only 7 met the £11+ criteria - the rest were all Heads Uppers at £10.50. (Nutter5932 ALSO played a lot of HU SNG's, but he played at bigger buy-in levels, so it did not affect him).
He said in hiis PM that he realised he may have disqualified himself, but if that were the case, he'd like to know now, rather than wait until Saturday & discover that Sky Poker had disqualified him. He was mortified, but wholly honest. With his approval, & if necessary, I have no issues with Posting a copy of his PM to me.
He also wrote an e-Mail, along the same lines, & at about the same time, to 'Ling. I was unaware of this, but when I took Doh's PM to Ling & Des urgently - as I had to - they were already deep in convo about the problem.
They had rung Harrogate to check this, & bizarrely, Harrogate had just finished checking all the Team Tuck TP-ers stats to ensure they had met the criteria, & so had also just discovered the irregularity, too.
Oh my, what to do?
Firstly, if they go strictly by the Rules, Doh has, albeit inadvertently, disqualified himself. Simples. Or is it?
Firstly, the "£11+ rule". The clear & obvious intention by Sky Poker was to mean £10 + Reg Fee" SNG's, but - I suspect - they clean forgot that HU SNG's only attract a 50p Reg Fee.
As to Doh, well, he messed up a bit tbh - he made a mistake, a mistake which by all rights should lead to his disqualification.
But it was a very easy mistake to make - who has not done such a thing? - & as soon as he realised his error, he wrote to Sky Ling, to fess up, & PM'd me, to seek my advice. His PM said, in his own words, "my bad, I'm sorry, if I'm disqualified, it's my fault, I'm very sorry".
So, Sky Ling, Sky Des & the Harrogate Suits (Sky-Bernie & Sky-Adam) had a big tom-tom yesterday afternoon, & made their decisiion.
The decision is that Doh will NOT be disqualified, penalised, or censored in any way.
Why?
1) The rule was perhaps not framed optimally. It should have said "a minimum 10 SNG's at £10 Entry Fee or above". The first TP is a learning experience for ALL of us, & if it's repeated - & I think it may well be, but bigger & better - all the lessons learned will be incorporated.
2) It's patently clear that Doh never intended to circumvent the Rules - it was an obvious mistake. And he fessed up, 100% openly, even put his "read my PM urgently" Post on this Thread. He did not intend to break any Rules, & he did not gain from so doing. Interestingly, though not relevant, none of the army of TP Railers noticed it, either.
3) The Suits all agreed that in the spirit of TP, Doh should be allowed to continue in TP. In saying this, they took note of perhaps the most surprising thing about TP - that all the players, even from rival Teams, have openly & warmly encouraged all their competitor TP-ers. What a wonderful thing that has been to see, & if Doh were disqualified, I think his TP-colleagues would be genuinely mortified.
So, Doh will be judged on Saturday night, along with his 5 Team-Tuck colleagues, on exactly the same basis as the others - that being his suitability as a potential "Total Player".
I wish him well, as much - no more, no less - as I do the other 5. I hope you all do, too.
fair play to the man for being so honest too.
Can someone please direct me to the post that explains this TOTAL PLAYER thing. Or have I got to read all of them from Numnber One?
Thanks
No probs please click here
Regards and gl on the tables yipeeyappee aka TPYipeeYappee
Totally the right decision, glad to see fairness and great sportsmanship throughout this competition.
Sleepless night for the guys and Mr Tuckman.
The results are nearly upon us, good luck to my fellow Team Tuckers - whatever the result, three people will be dissapointed, I may be one of them or I may not be, as Tuck said on the forum, we have all given him reasons to keep us so it's out of our hands now - but what a rollercoaster of a three nights - and I think all 6 of us would all agree that we have learned new things to our game from our mentor therefore the experience so far... has been great and well worth the UP's and Down's!!!!
Dylan
DOHX7... Glad to see Sky make the right decision here, good luck to you and the rest of Team Tuck tonight.
You really must stop watching daytime TV. Its affected your brain lol The Jeremy kyle show , Heartbeat nuff said.
I shall be on from 8 !
Best wishes to all the tp ers tonight and ongoing well deserved and hard earned no doubt many wish they could have been in your shoes so if it doesnt go your way tonight perhaps,take heart and console yourself with that fact well done guys heres to phase two
Definitely the right decision.
Good luck to you tonight, and - of course - all the other Team Tuck members.