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The recent shut down of the UPC tournament at Binion's is true and the fault of Passport Entertainment. The entire tournament was set up to fail. The $340.00 and $660.00 structures were ridiculous. From the $40.00 and $60.00 house take Passport was getting half of that for the production cost. So when not enough players were coming each week for him to make money he started cutting back the tournaments, not taping all episodes, and generally getting out of dodge. All of the filming crew were just left out to dry while the Passport owner continued to play in his own "cash game" and making a ton of money. Those poor guys and gals would find out with only one days notice that they did not have a job. Call the filming crew and they will back this up 100 percent.

If any players were smart they would run from anything that had UPC attached to it. Binion's themselves are working on a making a new tournament series to get players back to the room that started it all. I think we should support Binion's and not some fly by night jacka$$'s like Passport who don't know how to run a legitimate tournament.

Just my $.02 - good luck at the tables everyone!

Great post, very interesting news