Every now and again I"ll have a look at that Sky poker channel. It"s near the Television X freeviews so I"m never that far away anyway. So late last night I switch on to see the heads-up stage of whatever tournament they were showing, and some massive chip leader calls an all-in shove from shorty with 55 to see himself up against A6. Shorty doubles up and as the graphic moves the chips towards him I notice that the chip stacks don"t quite make sense.
Thinking this was maybe a technical error I stick around to watch the next hand, this time shorty shoves K9 into a suited 67 if memory serves. Again the chips move in the direction of shorty when his K-high holds and again I spot the odd chip stacks.
Through the magic of sky+ I pause the show and make a note of the chip counts. One guy has 1,261,634 and the other now has 778,365 putting the total number of chips in play as 2,039,999.
Now, I assume we started with 3,000 chips and there were 680 runners, which is the only thing that makes sense to me, but this means ONE chip has gone missing from the game.
Does anyone have any theories on where this chip has gone? For example:
Rake (lol)
It has been catapulted into another dimension by the God awful Sky Poker tournament structure.
Technical error.
Sky employee suffers from kleptomania.
Legal issue forbidding Sky from broadcasting the exact events of the online tournament.
Crazy betting sends computer into mahem, ie) re-raise to 1,467.5
Des's salary.
Kamikaze chip leaps head first from table.
