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Originally Posted by EastCoastBalla
You are totally wrong on this. Before covid Borgata had 4 big series a year including a decent summer series. Parx ran 4 Big Stax series a year or it might have been 3. But the crowds were huge for that. Foxwoods ran some decent series as well and while the crowds weren't what they once were, they still got a decent turnout to a lot of their tournaments. Plus Encore Boston Harbor ran a nice guarantee tournament right before covid and word was they were going to have a series soon after. Obv covid threw that plan away.
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I think I was looking specifically at the World Poker Tour schedule from year to year. You might be right. EDIT: It should be noted that I also was referring to the largest events (i.e. single tourneys) while you're talking about large series.
But as an example, Foxwoods held a $10K main event World Poker Finals until 2011. It came off the WPT slate and dropped to a $3,500 event in 2012. In 2013, that Foxwoods main event went to a $2,700 buy-in.
The mid-September Borgata Poker Open main event went from a $10K buy-in to a $3,500 entry event in the late 2000s. Of course, the prize pool stayed reasonably high, dropping from around $5 million to $3-4 million range, so it's not like it suffered a massive plummet.
After 2008, the C$10K event in Fallsview came off the WPT televised schedule. It came back to the broadcasts six years later, but this time as a $5K event with a prize pool roughly a third the size as it was pre-Black Friday.
So yeah... maybe "disappeared" is an unfair overstatement, and "diminished" would have been more accurate. Wow, who would have thought using extreme choices of words rather than tempered ones might elicit response?