Just wanted to let everyone know, a few of my friends told me and I checked it out myself.
Orleans Poker Room is currently having a tournament series that was supposed to last through early April. They have missed on a few of their guarantees. So they had scheduled an $800 main event $500,000 guarantee starting on Thursday March 31. 4 starting flights and day 2 was Sunday April 3rd.
Because of the Orleans missing out on their guarantees from earlier events, they have now less than 1 week away no less, cut the guarantee to $250,000 and lowered the buyin to $300. I called the poker tournament director who tried to blame Venetian for them doing this. He claimed Venetian hadn't put out its schedule yet and once it came out, they had a similar $800 tournament scheduled for the same days as Orleans. So the director told me that they can't compete against the Venetian and they decided to change their whole main event and slash the guarantee along with it.
Look I'm sorry but that is about as unethical as it gets. 2 of my friends had already bought plane tickets to fly and play their main. For them to do this within a week of their main, to only put it on their twitter(as of 2 days ago I never saw anything mentioned on their twitter about a change) is so fucking awful and shady.
Todd I hope you can call them out because I know my friends told me they will never play at the Orleans poker room again and neither will I. It's obvious they are not happy they had overlays already and when they realized Venetian is having a similar event they decided to change everything to avoid more overlays smh. Just terrible.
Shame on you Orleans. You suck!