Two six-figure tournament overlays were held over the weekend at The Lodge in Austin, Texas and the Borgata in Atlantic City, where poker players won hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prizes.
The $3,000 buy-in Lodge Championship Series Main Event offered a $2 million guarantee, but fell short of the $417,000 overlay. Meanwhile, the Borgata Poker Open Championship (BPOC), with a buy-in of $2,700, $2 million guarantee The difference is about 250,000.
california Michael Liang finished win The Lodge Championship is $428,000 and the Florida Championship is $428,000. Joel Deutsch It has been shipped It sold for a career-high $347,000 at BPOC.
Doug Polk's Texas poker plan hits a wall
“Scheduling errors” and “logistical nightmares”
The championship event, held at The Lodge from May 8th to 14th, offered seven start flights at the 40-minute level on the first day and unlimited re-entry. On May 9, The Lodge announced that it was planning a $500,000 overlay for the event.
Things went awry the next day when the poker club learned that “the majority of parking spaces in front of the Lodge Card Club will be unavailable today.” To accommodate inconvenienced patrons, The Lodge offered golf cart shuttles from various locations.
“We made some scheduling mistakes and dealt with a logistical nightmare,” says lodge co-owner Doug Polk wrote to
Polk said in a later post that he believed the event could be a success, but “we just need to make some changes.”
“If Choctaw can do these things in the middle of nowhere, we should be able to do them in Austin as well.”
Several poker players praised Polk and The Lodge for the way they handled the situation and for honoring guarantees that don't always happen.
“Thank you for honoring your warranty. Surprisingly, not everyone in the industry does that.” I have written Adam Hendricks is a high-stakes pro.
Last year's Lodge Championship Series Main Event had a total purse of $2.134 million, with more than $2 million guaranteed.
