Stalling incident during WCOOP 8-game | Poker Bonus Club Marawa

During Event 61 of the Pokerstars WCOOP -a $10,300 buy-in 8-game tournament- there was quite a big fight in the chat box. With the 8-game poker form you play 8 different games of poker by switching games every 15 minutes.

There are few players who are really skilled at all disciplines, so many players are hoping not to lose too much during the 15 minutes of their weaker game.

Contestant ‘kirbynator’ took this concept a bit too literally by taking the maximum time with his Limit Triple Draw 2-7 hands. That’s what we call ‘stalling’. By stalling he was able to play less hands in his least favorite game.

It was so obvious that Daniel Negreanu started a discussion in the chat box:

KidPoker said, “I am rooting for a dirty dirty bubble beat for Kirby. Like some sick sick beat lol”
kirbynator said, “hehe sry”
WhooooKidd said, “stalling thru td is gay”
KidPoker said, “he’s been doing it the whole tournament”
good2cu said, “very lame”
KidPoker said, “karma always wins in the end”
kirbynator said, “id rather make money for people trusting me”
kirbynator: folds

kirbynator said, “than be politically correct with better rich players”
kirbynator said, “and its been obvious im terrible at it”
kirbynator said, “”
kirbynator: folds
good2cu: folds
KidPoker said, “whatever allows you to sleep at night. In my book, you are a straight up angle shooter, but it’s legal so do your thing”
WhooooKidd: raises 2000 to 4000
KidPoker: folds
kirbynator said, “not denying it”
kardioloq: calls 2000
*** FIRST DRAW ***
kardioloq: discards 3 cards
KidPoker said, “thats nice”
WhooooKidd: discards 2 cards
kardioloq: checks
kirbynator said, “its been done a lot tho in my past horse tournaments”
WhooooKidd: bets 2000
KidPoker said, “classy actually”
kardioloq: calls 2000
*** SECOND DRAW ***
kardioloq: discards 2 cards
WhooooKidd: discards 2 cards
kardioloq: checks
WhooooKidd: checks
*** THIRD DRAW ***
KidPoker said, “I played this thing for 8 hours. who else did it but you?”
kardioloq: discards 2 cards

kirbynator said, “i wont name names but someone was doing it when u arrived, other than that one person id say about nobody else”
KidPoker said, “seriously though, karma will bit you in the butt. It always happens that way”
kirbynator said, “if possible i hope stars will implement a # of hands instead of minutes per game”
kirbynator said, “i think it would fix the problem”
kirbynator: folds

KidPoker said, “it would fix the problem if people respected the others in the tourney and played with some class and honor”
kirbynator said, “we’re not samurais”
KidPoker said, “dont play in an 8 game if you can only play 7 of them. or be an angle shooter”

good2cu said, “I agree with daniel what your doing is basically cheating”
good2cu said, “so lame”
kirbynator said, “didnt think it would get such a negative feedback tbh but i understand it”
kirbynator said, “i told people who bought pieces of me before i sucked at it and if they wanted id stall during those levels after the first few blinds ones”

kirbynator said, “i wont do it next time but i wont go back on my words with them sry”
Kravchenko: calls 6000
good2cu said, “clearly a very honorable person”
kirbynator said, “its only like 3 minutes of stalling per 2 hours”
KidPoker said, “embarrasing is that he is a Canadian. I apologize on my country’s behalf”
KidPoker said, “I like Bryan Adams!”
KidPoker said, “everyone watching and playing is hoping you finish where you deserve to 19th”

To summarize this chat: kirbynator didn’t deny his stalling and his opponents didn’t like him. Daniel Negreanu went on to finish 11th for $28,595 and Kirbynator, well, he finished second after Alex Kravchenko for $232,750. So far for bad karma…