Several pros including Justin Bonomo and Tony Dunst are lighting twitter up about Partouche refusing to honor the advertised $5million Euro guarantee of the main event. According to tweets the tourney officials are denying that they ever advertised a guarantee and basically calling the players liars. Bonomo posted this pic as proof. I am curious as to whether they 5 million was for the whole series or the main only. Either way very wrong to deny ever posting it on their website.
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Maybe they don't understand the meaning of guarantee.Originally Posted by shortbuspoker
Several pros including Justin Bonomo and Tony Dunst are lighting twitter up about Partouche refusing to honor the advertised $5million Euro guarantee of the main event. According to tweets the tourney officials are denying that they ever advertised a guarantee and basically calling the players liars. Bonomo posted this pic as proof. I am curious as to whether they 5 million was for the whole series or the main only. Either way very wrong to deny ever posting it on their website.
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Awful, and the players have a right to be pissed.
I do kinda LOL a little whenever Justin Bonomo speaks out about moral issues in poker, but at least the guy has kept his nose clean for awhile now.
This reminds me a bit of that recently-advertised "$1,000,000 prize pool" poker series in Arizona, where it turned out it was an estimate, rather than a guarantee.
This is worse, of course.
I think a lot of these rooms are now resorting to misleading advertising in order to compensate for the degraded poker economy.
Sad.
Also recall that Partouche was the location of that really, really bad cheating incident in 2010.
What a fucking mess that place is.
Apparently there is a bit of house cleaning taking place now.
I also found this to be a bit odd if true.
With what little I do see of Bonomo, it seems like he got caught for doing something wrong, but since then, he had the balls to put himself out in the spotlight, knowing fully that people could bash him, and come out against cheaters and shadiness.
It doesnt seem like he is hiding from anything, he seems like he wants to be a better person, and will put himself in the spotlight to draw attention to issues and teach people.
He gets a "notadouche" pass from me.
I don't know if such a law restricting added money really exists, but even if it does, the casino can easily get around it by offering other forms of compensation to the winners.Apparently there is a bit of house cleaning taking place now.
I also found this to be a bit odd if true.
For example, they could "hire" the entire final table for an advertising campaign, and grossly overpay them.
This is the same bullshit argument that Lock Poker was using when they didn't want to pay out their promised extra rakeback bonuses. They blamed it on Merge for restricting the rakeback they could pay out, but conveniently avoided the fact that they could pay the money out in so many non-rakeback ways, to where it broke out the same.
If Partouche doesn't cover the full guarantee, they are cheating people.
They cannot hide behind laws supposedly restricting adding money.
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