[ottobloke]

You have to realize that the tournament directors are not required to attend any special training and would have no idea of what the 35 rules that the NPL has posted on its site say, or have any idea of what the TDA or any of the rules for standard tournament play. It varies game to game depending on whom you happen to have as a tournament director. And there is no where they can go to check before they rule. Usually it doesn't make that much difference to the outcome of a game, so it hasn't caused them to change the way they operate. And after a quick settlement (one can only hope for J. Wang's sake involves significant cash - if not, he is a bit of a fool), I doubt it will change the way the NPL operates. Like big companies with risk management ( i.e. it will cost 40 billion to fix the problem to save 100 lives,, but only 10 billion to settle the 100 wrongful death lawsuits) they will not be much of an incentive to change the way they operate. Eventually, I suspect that either the government will ban pub poker as there is a LOT of money involved, with bigger and bigger games being set up as side games, or they will have to step in with a gaming authority of some kind to handle complaints or oversee the industry.