Venetian CEO Poker Tournament Main Event Furor

[Manpriest]

Linked in my small community poker forum. Spreading the word. This is ridiculous.

[Suigin406]

wow, this is horrible and i hope they get torched with a big penalty for doing this...i, like i'm sure others, are done with this...man, bilking people using a charity as a front, jeez...

[tuq]

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It should be easy to contact the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation to confirm that they are the recipient of the aforementioned monies. It's hard to believe that someone would make up a fake children's charity to siphon money for themselves, but I've heard of worse.

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Thats not really the point.

The point is that they took money out of the prize pool without telling the players and then in this thread Ms. Gomez claimed that she had notified the players on their website.

When it was shown that the structure sheet on their website had no mention of money being withheld they created a new document with the text that Ms. Gomez claimed was there all along and they tried to pass it off as if that was the document that had been up there all along.

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Oh, no I get the point and it's been echoed by many. I was just curious about the legitimacy of the donation, and how pathetic it would be if it was fake.

W/r/t the donation, even if it is legitimate it's pathetic, not just in its handling but in the fact that you know the CEO Poker Tour is looking to pass off the donation as their work and to take full tax and altruistic credit, when in fact it was a swindle.

[Cornell Fiji]

[CutCreator]

It would be great to see some corporate rapists get some sort of penalty for raping poker players. That would be a first.

[suzzer99]

Subject: charity inquiry
To: info@nvccf.org

Hello, I would like to confirm that a Poker tournament, which claims
to be giving 5% of it's entry fees to your charity, is actually doing
what it says.

It's the CEO Poker Tournament at the Venetian. They seem to have taken
down (from their site) the Word document where they claim 5% of their
tournament fees are going to your charity. But we have copies of it
scattered around. This amount should be somewhere in the $7500-$10000
range.

I would very much appreciate it if you could at least confirm for me
some involvement with CEO Poker on this tournament. There have been
some accusations of shady marketing of this tournament and quite
franky CEO Poker doesn't come off as very credible. So I thought I
would try to confirm with you that they at least did give some money
to charity.

Thanks for your time,

[doublejoker]

Does it explain that there is an additional 6% fee for the CEO Poker tour itself; in addition to the 4% for the Venetian Casino and 3% for the Venetian Staff?

[Spook]

Doublejoker, where did you get this information?

Now credible Maria is claiming at all 9% went to the V staff. So they must be tipped pretty well - right?

[The Owl]

LOL @ the President of the big-time CEO Poker Tour's email address being at AOL. Who is this person, my mom?

[doublejoker]

At the tournament itself. The floorpeople insisted that of the 9% fee the CEO Poker Tour charges 6% for sponsoring the event and that the Venetian takes its standard 3%.