This is most likely what is going on. I'm sure the other Merge skins were complaining that Lock was drawing away their players since it was a Lock-only tournament series.Perhaps there was a rule added that players had to "play-through" their initial deposits before withdrawing, which has the potential to keep Carbon, BCP, and Hero players on Lock far beyond the LockOPS.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
As for the other stuff, it's unlikely the overlays were going to be an issue: Merge continually changed the guarantees for many of the Poker Maximus series tournaments (upward of course) and left others unchanged. They were spot on in their guarantees, iirc only two or three failed to reach the guarantee and it wasn't by much, so I would assume Lock is using the same algorithim to come up with their guarantees for the LockOPS.
The SCOOP conflict (which there really isnt one, was already explained away: Lock put their tournament during the SCOOP to attract more players, since Euros and such will already be online playing SCOOP events, what's one more tournament for them?
This was announced by Lock Poker early this morning so it's legit. If you visit the LockOPS pages on the Lock website you get hit with the same message that is on their Twitter account.
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