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[chrisjp]

From Stars blog--

CONTROVERSY OF THE HOUR

Matt Nieberg headed off to the break about 30 seconds before the clock officially ran down. He had "no less than 20,000, no more than 22,000" when he left. Twenty minutes later, he came back to the table and found no chips in front of his chair. Not one. Zero. His stack was gone.

For fairly obvious reasons, Nieberg did not consider this to be a positive development and asked the tournament officials to review the video tape to determine where the chips had gone. About 15 minutes passed before a security official returned, counted 22,000 out of the stack of Karib Omar, Nieberg's neighbour, and gave them to Nieberg. "You took them," the tournament official said.

Omar apologised for what seemed to be a genuine mistake. "It was an accident, an accident," Omar said. He explained the obvious: that it wasn't exactly the kind of thing you could expect to get away with. Omar was not issued with a penalty or anything, and everyone was satisfied that is had been a genuine mistake. Nieberg, however, held his hands cautiously over his chips. "These chips are not leaving my sight."

Guys, count your chips at every break and protect them.....

Chris

[kinnipak]

I've read this three times and I cant figure out how this can be a "genuine mistake".

[chrisjp]

Of course I'm blindly pontificating but I'm with you kinni. It was foolhardy but deliberate. I would have penalized the SOB. Intent should have been irrelevant. Who knows intent anyway. Well everyone, at least 99% of the time.

Chris

[toronexti]

He should be disqualified . . .