Sounds like somebody got fired for cause and is pissed, lol.

Just Imagine...

Source: dude trust me

Hey just going to briefly weigh in here.

I can confirm that account is an ex lodge dealer.

Whole lot to unpack with the information there. To start I have spent a good number of hours looking into some of the above mentioned comments, and found there to be no truth behind them.

I do think this dealer generally meant well, but I think is perhaps a little bit blinded (or has been lied to by others) about some of these accusations.

We had direct calls about these issues, and after enough time spent here I came to the conclusion that these are inaccurate. As an owner, I have a lot at stake in this company and of course I care deeply about the treatment of our staff and the behavior of our managers.

To the best of my knowledge:

- Dick pic story is false
- Tournament stealing is false
- Rigging games is false
- I'm not sure what finding loopholes in the cage means

Do you think we would let a business worth millions of dollars lie in the hands of a manager sending dick pics? Think about that for a moment.

We have fired people for stealing $10. I can personally guarantee you if we found anyone to be stealing from us we would fire them immediately.

We will continue to monitor things at our cardroom as we move forward. I am sure there would be plenty of staff willing to say some positive things about how we run the business as well.

FTX, a multi billion dollar company was in hands of managers having orgies on the balcony. I’m immune to surprises in this world.

Late night for the wgc rider, its 234am mtn time right now, so kudos for actually caring about this enough that you're losing sleep over it.

As a business owner myself I've learned that people seem to have an incredible amount of gripes once they're no longer employed at the business. Theyre able to tell tall tales and not be held accountable for backing the statement up because theyre no longer employed at (my) business. Does this mean theyre all false? No, I definitely have come to learn good info from past employees who for whatever reason waited until they didnt work for me to let me know something quite pertinent to my business, but as a whole if its a legitimate grievance then they;d say it while it was impacting their day to day.

The accusations the guy made each on their own would be massive deals. If someone was rigging a private game I dont think it would be included in a long wall of text as some afterthought. Wouldnt that be front and center?

Do not trust Doug Polk in anything business related.
History does not lie.
Guy is an ego maniac, seems sociopathic as well.

Never took accountability for relentlessly shilling coinflex to his "followers" despite all of the OBVIOUS red flags that anyone in the space would be alarmed by.
No chance he'd standup to a shady co owner if he was still raking in money from the deal.

A "personal guarantee" means nothing from someone with no integrity.

Seems insane to me that people agree to play on a cards up livestream with an owner. Maybe they are all ethical people with high integrity but it’s too much conflict of interest of someone relaying hole cards from the commentary booth or back-end production

Back end doesn't have cards at lodge card club

Including commentators?

Curious how you were able to commentate a hand on Saturday, leave your commentary to go force a clock so that it doesn’t run into delay, and then appear in stream

Here’s timestamps for the 3/16/24 stream hand I’m referencing

4:37:47 - DP enters booth
4:38:35 - Hand starts, DP calling action mentioning hole cards
4:41:20 - NA starts 21 minute river tank. Some commentary by DP including “stache’s straddle squeeze with 43s and turning straight will not be the headline for this hand”, I agree, something more interesting than a cooler is going on here
4:53:05 - DP: “you know…I think we might be getting close to…”
4:53:14 - “our delay?”
4:53:15 - DP: “…our delay so I’m just going to go make sure that doesn’t happen. So I’ll be back in a bit”
4:56:14 - commentator: “Doug has left the booth for the integrity of the game to make sure we don’t hit the delay”
4:57:14 - DP shown on stream to give forced clock

Yes, because you were brand ambassador for an obvious scam, with a guy you called out as a scammer on the front page, where you said the CEO sounded like a scammer. You have no self awareness apparently.

I didnt actually do that, I had gone into the room 30 minutes earlier. Just thought it would help build the drama!

The timing fits for when you entered the booth…but it’s still very strange. Are you saying all of the below was pretend?

-Your statement at 4:53 contemplate needing to go force a clock
-Leaving the booth at 4:54 to protect the stream
-your co-commentator 4:56 statement that you just left the booth to make sure the hand didn’t hit the delay

I’ll give you this, you made it quite convincing that you were not commenting on delay. I also can’t see what incentive you have to do that acting performance.

Thank you for the response

On a stream, you want to avoid being in 2 places at once.

When people see you in two places at once they know the show isn't live.

I had 25 minutes to put together a strategy, it wasn't an off the cuff game plan.

Ok fair enough, you didn’t have much time to think through. Congrats on an excellent weekend of streams by the way. Great games to watch.

Thanks! One of our best for sure

I don't know what of these accusations are true or false but I do think quality of dealers at the Lodge has dropped. This might be natural with the growth but between the loss of many regulars and all the traveling dealers needed for the tournament series, it definitely is a drop in experience compared to when dealers were the biggest reason I originally liked playing at the Lodge. It was most noticeable at the last MUG when had to explain to multiple dealers standard Lodge rules like with Bomb Pots. If losing good dealers because of management, I think it is a concern that should be taken seriously as the easiest way for another room to get me personally to try them instead of the Lodge is by having the dealers that I know are fast, trustworthy, and create a fun atmosphere.

how about that 24 min airball tank?

Whales require the biggest tanks

doug polk literally scammed his followers with coinflex, i'd be so wary about the lodge lol

Someone needs to learn what the word "literally" means.

Yeah, that is taking it a bit too far. The Lodge seems to be doing quite well and conducted as a stable business.

Hopefully, more stable than CoinFlex stable coin lololo. Ok I see myself out

What brand is that green flower shirt Doug is wearing on a recent stream?

Edit: Oh, and yeah, I really registered 7 years ago and having my first post here being about a shirt.

Travis Matthew's, nice brand imo