I got moved tables in the little old £20 omaha hi lo 14.45 MTT.... i had 800 chips left.... it then immediately moved me again.... and for 2 hands i had 8875 chips!
This was a first for me, i was bang up for it.... but then they went back down again on the 3rd hand of that table..... never seen anything like that before on any poker site.....
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I'm certainly not a techie, but I'd bet good money it's a latency issue, & that it's the chips of the seat's previous occupant you could see as Stokey noted. If you had tried to perform an action, it would only have allowed you to use the 800 you really had.
PS - latency; the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer.
"poor performance due to network latency"
A good example of computer latency in poker is when a player excitedly goes on Twitter, the Forum or whatever & everywhere else & says that the deck has two cards in it which are the same. (Two x 8 of Spades for example). And they DO appear to see it.
What they are actually seeing is the cards from their previous hand during their current hand & comparing it to the Board cards or other players cards in the current hand. This is quite a common thing.