The Partouche Poker Tour (PPT), self-stylized “biggest poker tournament in Europe,” has informed players today that the prize pool for its Main Event is only €4.3m, not the €5m originally guaranteed.

The €8500 buy-in tournament, a culmination of many satellites and super satellites held across casinos in France, was originally sold as having a €5m guaranteed prize pool; that is, Partouche will ensure at least €5m is awarded in prizes regardless of the number of entries.

http://pokerfuse.com/news/poker-room...-5m-guarantee/

This must be illegal right?

wow. This is disgusting.

Wasnt there a huge thread few years ago about how awful the partouche venue is, even reporting instances of cheating?

Thank god, it had been 30 mins since I'd heard a bit of news from the poker world that makes me ashamed to be part of it.

Twitter is exploding with this

Here's a link to Partouche.be, proudly boasting the 5 million guarantee:

https://www.partouche.be/actu/tournois-live.html

No surprise, every year this Casino gets negative feedback from players. boycott

I hate Partouche almost as much as I hate the French poker scene. Angling scumbags with casino employees backing them up everywhere. I hope PPT burns for this.

Has to be a court somewhere that the casino can be sued in for breach of contract

i guess im alone here.
lol sry i dont get why this is such a deal. thats still a big tournament. poker players get annoyed fast these days.

did the entry fees / satellites include contracts?

From Peter Jetten on Twitter:

I had someone in the French poker media DM me, stating the same thing.

Wow just wow... Should be called pardouche poker tour now. Next week they will be sorry and everything will be ok again.....

Someone seriously needs to make a regulatory committee and u have to pass thru that process before you can host ANY poker related event. Of course I dont mean home games or such, just any event advertised to the masses that charges a rake.

Like someone said earlier here... Its only been 30 minutes since the last scam was exposed....

What a crock of ****

IS there a link to even live updates of the tourney

I cant find anything on the site thats decent