Broadway Drop A Clanger
It is that time of month again, in my opinion the best regular comp in the UK is on “The DTD Deepstack Weekend”. Some people were saying that because of the Broadway’s festival being so close and overlapping that the numbers for this maybe low, and it does seem that the online entries are lower than normal. I doubt very much if the £100,000 guaranteed at the Broadway will have effected the numbers however, as the turnout was very low there (Maybe Blackpools GUKPT week will have an effect, we will see at the end of the day).
Anyway, back to Broadway’s clanger! And I must stress that at the moment it is unconfirmed and second hand information from the blonde forum and facebook.
It appears that the turnout was very low for this Main Event, 33 runners for day 1a and at the designated kick off time of 7pm for day 1b only 27 people had entered. This meant that potentially the Broadway was looking at an overlay of £40,000! This is not the story though, in an attempt to boost numbers and an attempt to cut its loss, the Broadway foolishly decided to enter more players for free, with those players entered playing for 10% of whatever they win!!!!! The start time was held back for over an hour whilst the Broadway organised this. In this period some players got to hear about the Broadways plans and a near riot ensued. Some players that had stumped up the £1000 entry withdrew in protest even though their was still added value, fair play to them as well (as this could then set a precedent for future guaranteed comps).
I am led to believe that during the furore the Broadway backtracked and called all those registered by the casino back to withdraw from the comp (still to be confirmed). Eventually 43 players were confirmed as playing day 1b making the total overlay of £24k (which in other circumstances would be a great story and great publicity for the club).
Instead of being a positive story about a massive overlay, we now are seeing the negative side. The publicity of this “Would be” great event has been very poor, coupled with sharing dates with DTD’s £80k guarantee and Blackpools GUKPT week, this was set for disaster. If the above is true (which I am 95% certain) then this could be the last Guaranteed festival at the Broadway, it may even have hurt the Broadway that much that poker players will boycott the cardroom. This would be a great shame as Broadways cardroom in my opinion is in the top 5 cardrooms in the country.
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I’m a memeber of the Broadway and the first I heard about the fessie was from Steve Holden’s blog, We had an article about it but not many otehrs did, they got the publicity very wrong.
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