Venetian CEO Poker Tournament Main Event Furor

[TxRedMan]

No one has a problem with your charity, or with the CEO poker tour helping to further your cause. However, please understand that most of us do not play the game as strictly a hobby, and do not have enough wealth that would allow us to essentially play in a tournament that was unbeatable. And by unbeatable, I mean that if you played in a tournament that withheld this much of the prizepool (x) amount of times, it's likely that the best tournament players around would go broke b/c of the money withheld.


Furthermore, this is clearly false advertising and extremely unethical. If you want to run a charitable event, by all means do so, but advertise it as such that there is no doubt, i.e., ante-up for Africa in the WSOP.

In sum, we respect your charity and your cause, but we do not respect the CEO Poker Tour, and I'm betting that the rest of the forum is like me in thinking that CEO Poker Tour asked you to post here to both attempt to calm us down and dodge the issues we want addressed immediately.