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Originally Posted by Bridgeboy
After reading through this thread, I've got to question how viable these independent poker events are absent significant sponsorships (World Poker Tour with TV tie ins) or direct connection with a casino (WSOP -Caesers). Seems to me that otherwise, the additional rake that would be required to be withheld from player entries beyond paying the host casino would dilute the payout structure to the point that it would be untenable from the player's perspective.
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I think what makes this different is that the event that has not been paid out was a championship at the end of their "Tour Season" in a foreign country and many entries were satellites/won entry into through another tournament.
I assume that all tournaments in US casinos had all of the players paid on the spot. If i found out otherwise that would be last tournament I play on their tour.
In a US Casino as soon as the first person went to the window to collect a big payout and a cashier was like, sorry go talk to the PPC to get paid and if the PPC followed that with, hey we will email you next week or some BS that there would be a pretty big scene/riot. IANAL, but there are several lawyers in this thread, and i would assume the host casino would be liable in the US.
Every tournament venue functions as, bustout, go to cashier, get paid, i would imagine in any country if someone went to get paid and were given some kind of an IOU that this would cause quite a scene and said player definitely inform remaining players in the tournament of the situation.