Man, we live in a crazy country. My state used to have legal video poker. State banned it and started a lottery. No poker or any other gambling allowed. Put a bunch of video poker places out of business, ruined some people's lives. Started the worst form of gambling ever, state numbers game, AKA EDUCATION lottery. Because, it of course helps the children. Except a lot of the revenues do not go to education. In a country founded on liberty, it is amazing how little liberty we actually have. So, I drive 5 hours to the nearest casino to exercise my liberties. And that is almost never. Oh yeah, thank you Black Friday. Merica, hell yeah!

I always crack up when state officials say they don't want internet poker because they NEED to protect people from "problem gambling" but then want everyone to buy their scratch and lotto tickets instead which have far worse odds.

So much frigging corruption in our "leadership".

New York state doesn't even have random video poker.Their machines are video lottery terminals meaning the deck isn't random it's preprogrammed to pay off some ripoff amount.

Yep. So, back in the day, South Carolina had video poker, it was pretty big with lots of places near major borders. Then, of course, they outlawed it and started a state lottery. Put all those small businesses under, those places are borderline churches now or just rotting away and falling apart. Pathetic. I think video poker odds were better than state lotteries. Total corruption. Of course, even home poker for money is illegal here, no casinos, five hour drive to Cherokee. I never played video poker, but I know people who liked it. Now, poor people play the state numbers game and lose a lot of money. Gotta love it. Legalized mafia.

Back in the day also, I wrote my Congress people and the cut and paste response was that online poker supported terrorists. So, it was bad. Of course. One of Lindsey Graham's biggest donors was Adelson. Terrorism my ass.

Yes, but the nanosecond they detect that they can push online gambling legislation through, they use the "it's tax money for the (shitty) schoolz" coping mechanism. Politicians follow the dollar sign. Period. Nothing else. They're all scumbag punks.

then your lucky but if anywhere else in the world tried that....

I'm surprised promoting a tournament as having a guaranteed prize pool and then not honouring that isn't illegal?

Ms Graham is involved with the new Kings Mtn NC casino, deeded to the Catawba Indians. His chief of staff got equity in the video machine vendor as did Rep Clyburn's brother, and Nikky Haley's husband. Hopefully some NC politicians are getting a piece of the pie too.

Seems pretty clear to me: Hustler violated terms of the bargain that were de facto accepted by the players when they registered and played. Perhaps the fine print provides a bailout. (but there is a limit to what fine print empowers)

Defer to Gzesh for confirmation.

didnt read the thread but how is this fair to people that made day 2 even with the refund. they icm has to be higher than adding $250, or what ever the buy in was, to their stack right?

Having those two idiots on both sides of him just made him look more stupid than he was for renegging in the first place. Larry Flynt must be turning over in his grace he should not have a job.

Indeed.

In California, the lottery is such that two thirds of the total revenue goes back to the prizes. One fourth of the total goes to education. The rest covers the costs of running the lotteries in the first place and/or makes up the smaller prizes that go to the retailers.

Of the money going to education, it divvies up roughly as follows: almost 80 percent to K-12th, 14 percent to the community colleges, and the remaining 6 percent split between the Cal State University and University of California systems. [Source: https://www.calottery.com/who-benefits] Of course, the problem is that revenue isn't quite as helpful as the annual revenue totals might seem. If the CA Lottery pulls in $6 billion in a year, it sounds good. Thats $1.5 billion going to education, and thus $1.2 billion earmarked for the K-12 kiddos. Great success!

But when you consider there are about 10,500 public schools serving six million K-12 students in California, you can see how thin that money actually becomes. On average, that distribution might pick up the tab for two teachers per school. On a per-student level, we're talking about a few hundred bucks per annum. Little Aiden and Emma can share a Chromebook!

One funny outcome is this local news story: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/l...e-982e71d4ee4e. That article both trumpeted the $1.8 billion for the K-12 schools AND the fact that such a sum accounts for one percent of the total education budget... all in the same sentence. I like to think the reporter (Giacomo Luca) was tilted for having to do a puff piece, then wrote that as a middle finger to the commission.

Add to that CA reduced the education budget to account for lottery revenue.

Doesn't seem fair to a lot of parties unfortunately.

Hustler ****ed up Bad but owned it although offer was weak, what else should they have done.

Does t seem to have effected live stream as trying to hit 250k subscribers, need 80k or so. Offering trip to Hawaii or maybe a Hustler poker package, let's hope this is honoured.

Looking forward to next week's games, just hope Weside is back and well rested as can only imagine the Party he has been on.

Oh, I don't know, continue with the tournament guarantee as agreed?

Here's what's gonna happen and how many people actually care about this.

A similar thing happened before with Hawaiian Gardens and the place is still packed. Poker players are just a bunch of degenerate gamblers. Only a few people will actually boycott a casino, let alone a tournament. Especially tournament players who seem to play no matter what. I was having this discussion with a friend where I pointed out the rake in tournaments has actually exponentially increased in comparison to cash games over the last 5 years in particular. And yet the fields are still massive and larger than ever. People just don't care. People just continue to play and pay for terrible customer service.

tldr: this won't affect anything and nobody is going to actually do anything about it.

The end.

It's pretty much invisible and for the majority of the people in the fields they won't play enough of them to where it will really impact them

But in Vegas for all of the series that go on during the summer, the rake situation is monitored and compared, at least amongst the mixed stakes community with chainsaw leading the way

Great lineups this week at Hustler with another solid lineup today.

Listening to the players chatting yesterday most seem to stay around for the aftergame. Hoping Dgaf can update the winners and losers for this game as huge amounts on table.

10k viewers each day this week with lineups getting better each day.
Go Weside.

Does anyone know if Hustler actually ran the tournament where they were going to add 50k to it? I can't find anything.

Doesn’t look like it

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