Turns out I offended Shogun with my WPTL post. I’m not sure if Shogun is a gamer fan or Mauricio Shogun fan but here’s what Shogun had to say:
Are you serious?
The World Poker Tour took 15% out of the prize pool which is generated by player buy-ins and includes no additional money from WPT. So it’s not that the "WPT would be reaching out to help the sick", but rather that WPT was taking money out of the players pockets to make it look like they, and not the players, "would be reaching out to help the sick". The WPT had no intentions of matching the donation, and when combined with the rake, the $25,000 withheld for the WPT Championship seat, and the 3% withheld for the tournament staff it made the tournament economically unplayable.
Second place money: $40,815
Money missing from the prize pool: $39,490The decision was such an obvious mistake that Lyle Berman promised it would never happen again.
Tsk Tsk on fact-checking.
So, let me clarify after the jump.
