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TLDR: The last poker trip that DirtArse & I travelled to in November, it was the poker tour that angled the players!
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I had asked for the tournament structures after DirtArse wanted to go to the Caribbean Latin Series of Poker in the Dominican Republic for our first flight after 20 long months of lockdowns. I never got the structures, even after I asked the Playground Poker Club dealer in the tournament room who had a supervisory role, then the TD 😔 whom I had met at PokerStars Panama.
Unlike Playground, there was minimum information displayed in the tournament screen, with slow updates.😴 When the prize payout was finally shown, I noticed that the players’ prize pool was low, as the undisclosed rake was higher than any of the tours we have played at! DirtArse really wanted to cash to earn the Dominican Republic flag on HendonMob, where we both have seven flags, but we both decided to just enjoy the Punta Cana beach resort instead of being angled with secret bad structures. We met pros & other players on the beach who also minimized playing the badly-organized tournaments.
It was still a fun vacation after COVID-19 lockdowns, but the lesson I learned is to not travel to a series where the organizers are unwilling or unable to disclose the structures. I was all set to travel to WSOP Africa & Colombia, but when their bad organizers never replied to me with structures, I cancelled my flight & played somewhere else.
Next is the FRE* poker vacation at Pearl River Resort in Mississippi on September 8-19, which has many similarities to Playground like f*** meals & f*** alcohol, along with a f*** room for 7-14 days.
