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JohnWain111:
 Although the event is still on today, a post to thank all involved at APAT for a great event at Manchester. Hopefully all goes well for those still in the competition today. This was my first entry to the event and although am unfortunatley not there today at the final tables, finishing somewhere around sixtieth, I felt I got much out of the day by the way of experience and met a lot of good people.
One constructive criticism I have is that at our table we ended up with 3 empty seats of those who just did"nt turn up - bad form! Their stacks were obviously blinded down throughout the course of the day, but it does cause inconvenience to those players there, not to mention the dealers who occassionally miss dealing them in, have to cross over players to retrieve dead cards, and players closest to the empty seats ensuring absent players blinds are put in. There must be a better solution to this problem!
Anyway, not to take anything away from a great day. I"ll certainly be trying for another seat.

Cheers APAT  
 

AMRN:
I love it when people don"t take their seat!!  They"ve contributed to the prize pool, but don"t pose a threat to me taking it down!!    My problem is that I tend to concentrate more on stealing dead blinds rather than playing poker - forever tripping up on this...

kinboshi:
I can"t believe people don"t turn up and don"t call in advance to get their buy-in refunded.

Not only are they doing themselves out of some money, they"re also preventing someone else from playing from the reserve list.

As for removing the chips - not really a simple option there.  The player has paid his entry fee (or qualified for the seat) and might be held up in traffic (or something similar) and will arrive a few hours late.  That"s their prerogative in my book and having them fold their blinds is only the same as having someone sitting at the table waiting for AA or KK that never comes.

I think it took 7 hours until these empty seats were blinded out.  There might be a case for saying that after so many levels their chips are removed or they"re blinded every hand - but the second option certainly changes the table dynamic - and makes it an unfair playing field on the table (some are in better position to steal these chips), and also makes one table different to another. 

Maybe removing their chips after a certain amount of time is the answer?  But what happens then if they turn up just after their chips have been removed?  Have they not paid the same as everyone else, and now have the right to turn up when they want?  I guess it could be written in the APAT rules that people who don"t turn up have to arrive before the end of a certain level (e.g. level 5), or must call to say they will be turning up and have been delayed, otherwise they are automatically withdrawn?

Jon MW:
I don"t think that there could be any way that peoples stack should just be removed.

Somebody on that table could have mediocre hands for the first 5 levels and then hit a run of good cards - I think they should be allowed the opportunity to pick up the dead blinds just as much as the players with good cards in the first few levels.

The blinds just being paid as normal by the missing player/s probably causes the least disruption to the playing dynamics of the game. I think this longer, smaller disruption is preferable over the shorter more significant change that would be caused if there were any kind of accelerated blinding off of absent players.

Basically, that"s all just to say that I think the current system is the best. Although I agree it is odd that some players don"t turn up and don"t cancel.

APAT:
There were very few no shows, but it is not an option to remove them from the event.

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