Stealing Chips
Over on Table 267 in the Blue section, a dealer yelled out, "Floor Table 267!" A moment then passed and the dealer muttered, "Holy sh*t!" under his breath about the situation that had just occurred. When the floor got there, here's what was explained.
The player in Seat 7 just got to the table after being transferred from another table. He took his chips out of the bag used to transfer them in and began counting them out in front of him. The player to his left in Seat 8 had just won the last pot and was counting out his chips in front of him, cutting to the right as he counted. When the player in Seat 8 restacked his chips, he picked up the chips of the other player that were cut out by accident and stacked them up. The player in Seat 7 claimed that he had about 30,000 when he changed tables, but with all the chips mixed up in the new stack, there wasn't a clear-cut way to tell whose chips were whose.
Eventually, the player in Seat 8 just took a bunch of chips out of his stack and handed them over to Seat 7. Seat 7 counted his stack with the added chips and had 29,000 and change. He seemed content with that and so did the other player. "if it's good with you, it's good with me," said the tournament staff and the dealer began shuffling for the next hand.