TXtourplayer
Executive Member
I copied the following information from LVA, posted by Joep earlier today.
Hilton Million Dollar tournament that was cancelled mid-stream held the drawings tonight to fill the field back up to 32 players.
16 Wild Cards were drawn out of I believe 73 players,a lot of names known to the community were picked to play for all the money collected.
Some of the 16 Wild Cards were
Anthony Curtis
Robert Blechman
George Long
John Ressman
Jodi C.
John Chai (Bet21)
Roy Vest
Joe Pane
Play starts on Friday morning at 10 AM
Its head to head so you need to win 5 tables to win the event
32 players to 16 Players
16 Players to 8 Players
8 Players to 4 Players
4 Players to 2 Player
All players receive money in every round win or lose.
The Famous "Mulligan" will be used in this tournament.
Congratulations to those players who were picked in the wild card drawings, however I have mixed feelings about the way the Las Vegas Hilton handled this entire Million Dollar event.
Money was collected based on playing for a end of the year $1,000,000 prize. This is why everybody entered to play in the first place, not to play for some smaller event now.
When I canceled the TBJPA/TBT championship, any and all money was mailed back to every player who had funds invested in the TBT events. We didn't run the TBT as qualifiers, everybody was welcome to play in the championship event, only the entry was based on how many TBT events each player play in throughout the year.
This wasn't my money to decide what to do with, but all the players that had played in the Las Vegas Hiltons event with the knowledge of getting to play in additional qualifying events later should they adavance in any of the earlier qualifiers. But with the changes those players were not given that chance and now many of the players that put money into this event have nothing and no chance to re-coup any of it (unless they were wild carded in).
Plus look at those players who actually did qualify, now they risked $2,500 for $1,000,000 only to find out now that the event has been cut down to about a 1/10th of what was advertised. Now the qualified players are having to play against players (actually very good players) who didn't qualify but were simply drawn in.
As a qualified player, I'd be PISSED! As a player who hadn't qualified, nor was drawn as a wild card, I'd be PISSED!
The only fair situation should have been to refund back all the collect funds to all those who played in the 3 - 4 qualifiers (qualified or not at least those who hadn't qualified or were wild carded in). Also think about the players who had to travel in just for a chance to be picked for a wild card and then host an event for just the qualified players (at the expense of the Las Vegas Hilton).
The problem was, the rules were set, money was received by the Hilton and after the qualifying events had started, the event was changed. The players didn't ask or want the changes, it was the Hilton that just decided to make the changes, the issue I have is it wasn't their money and they shouldn't have the right to decide how it was to be used. The money collected belonged to every player that had entered any of the monthly qualifiers, not the LV Hilton.
Hilton Million Dollar tournament that was cancelled mid-stream held the drawings tonight to fill the field back up to 32 players.
16 Wild Cards were drawn out of I believe 73 players,a lot of names known to the community were picked to play for all the money collected.
Some of the 16 Wild Cards were
Anthony Curtis
Robert Blechman
George Long
John Ressman
Jodi C.
John Chai (Bet21)
Roy Vest
Joe Pane
Play starts on Friday morning at 10 AM
Its head to head so you need to win 5 tables to win the event
32 players to 16 Players
16 Players to 8 Players
8 Players to 4 Players
4 Players to 2 Player
All players receive money in every round win or lose.
The Famous "Mulligan" will be used in this tournament.
Congratulations to those players who were picked in the wild card drawings, however I have mixed feelings about the way the Las Vegas Hilton handled this entire Million Dollar event.
Money was collected based on playing for a end of the year $1,000,000 prize. This is why everybody entered to play in the first place, not to play for some smaller event now.
When I canceled the TBJPA/TBT championship, any and all money was mailed back to every player who had funds invested in the TBT events. We didn't run the TBT as qualifiers, everybody was welcome to play in the championship event, only the entry was based on how many TBT events each player play in throughout the year.
This wasn't my money to decide what to do with, but all the players that had played in the Las Vegas Hiltons event with the knowledge of getting to play in additional qualifying events later should they adavance in any of the earlier qualifiers. But with the changes those players were not given that chance and now many of the players that put money into this event have nothing and no chance to re-coup any of it (unless they were wild carded in).
Plus look at those players who actually did qualify, now they risked $2,500 for $1,000,000 only to find out now that the event has been cut down to about a 1/10th of what was advertised. Now the qualified players are having to play against players (actually very good players) who didn't qualify but were simply drawn in.
As a qualified player, I'd be PISSED! As a player who hadn't qualified, nor was drawn as a wild card, I'd be PISSED!
The only fair situation should have been to refund back all the collect funds to all those who played in the 3 - 4 qualifiers (qualified or not at least those who hadn't qualified or were wild carded in). Also think about the players who had to travel in just for a chance to be picked for a wild card and then host an event for just the qualified players (at the expense of the Las Vegas Hilton).
The problem was, the rules were set, money was received by the Hilton and after the qualifying events had started, the event was changed. The players didn't ask or want the changes, it was the Hilton that just decided to make the changes, the issue I have is it wasn't their money and they shouldn't have the right to decide how it was to be used. The money collected belonged to every player that had entered any of the monthly qualifiers, not the LV Hilton.
The Club will survive LOL
