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Posted 2020-July-08, 10:50

When someone enters a (paid) tournament, at what point does the system check they have sufficient BBO$ to play? Is it when they enter the tournament, or when the tournament starts? Yesterday our tournament didn't start on time (because of the +allavail+ parameter) but at the time it wasn't clear if this we due to disconnection, or a lack of BBO$. I believe that the BBO$ are only taken when the tournament starts. If there isn't a warning of a lack of funds when someone enters, then I think this would be a good idea for the future.
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Posted 2020-July-08, 12:58

View Postpeterb001, on 2020-July-08, 10:50, said:

When someone enters a (paid) tournament, at what point does the system check they have sufficient BBO$ to play? Is it when they enter the tournament, or when the tournament starts? Yesterday our tournament didn't start on time (because of the +allavail+ parameter) but at the time it wasn't clear if this we due to disconnection, or a lack of BBO$. I believe that the BBO$ are only taken when the tournament starts. If there isn't a warning of a lack of funds when someone enters, then I think this would be a good idea for the future.


The check is made at registration. But the money is taken from the balance only when the tournament starts.

If someone has 6 BB$. Registers to a 5 BB$ game starting in 45 minutes.

While waiting for the tourney to start, goes play a daylong at 1.35 BB$

Then, when his tournament starts, this person will no longer have enough BB$ in their balance to cover the entry fee, even though, at the time of registration they had enough.

This is a pretty rare scenario though, most times players are careful to not consume their balance while waiting for a game they care about.

The message shown with the tournament cannot start because someone is not available is rather generic "user blah is not available or doesn't have enough BB$". It doesn't state the reason is that there are not enough BB$. It can be either that they are offline, or that they are playing elsewhere, or that they dont have enough BB$ -- any one of these situations would discard the pair.

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