WSOP Tournament of Champions: the 3rd day cancelled

• Author: News2
• Filed under: Huck Seed, Joe Hachem, Phil Hellmuth, Poker
• Date: Jul 4,2010

Scheduling plays a crucial role when organizing big tournaments - but even the best seem to make mistakes…

May the reason be Phil Hellmuth’s better-than-expected success in $10k PLO or Joe Hachem’s gift of sleep, but anyway organizing the third day of the TOC didn’t function at all.

The places for the day were already drawn and the chipbags were opened, but Hellmuth was still busy playing the Omaha tournament. During the lunch break of the PLO they decided to play one level of the TOC so that the players wouldn’t have to continue as early on the following day. However, the TOC players had already managed to spread themselves all around, so the result was a massive telephone rumba.

After the telephone session Huck Seed and Joe Hachem were still missing. The organizers found out that Seed was already on the road to the tournament, but Hachem instead was still in bed (and it would have taken him at least half an hour to make it). Also the lunch break of the PLO was nearly over, and Hellmuth needed to get back to the Omaha table. And Hachem’s delay would have meant only half an hour of time to play the TOC.

Due to this confusing situation the tournament lead decided to cancel the whole third day of the tournament. In practice this means that the TOC will continue tomorrow until there’s one player left.  

Source: PokerNews and TheHendonMob