Planet Hollywood Closing Poker Room - Was it due to their partnership with Chainsaw that they failed?
Chainsaw partnered up with Planet Hollywood for his Chainsaw Mixed Series of Poker which wasn't very well attended. Looks like they weren't able to overcome those losses from that series and are closing. Thoughts?
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Allen Kessler's bespoke tournament structures are highly sought after and regarded by tournament directors world wide, they are finely tuned akin to a Swiss timepiece and the suppositon that his series at Planet Hollywood contributed to their closure is fanciful and possibly defamatory.
Chainsaw's inevitable induction into the Poker HOF will help to tamp down the scurrilous attacks directed at him here and on X where his pearls of wisdom are often degraded by an army of malcontents.
With the location they were always going to struggle to draw cash game recreationals. I think they could have done a better job becoming a NLH tournament destination room using promotions such as food credit with buy-in or lower rake than Wynn/Venetian. The WSOP circuit event showed people will turn up to tournaments there
PH always shunted poker off to the boonies or in uncomfortable areas of the casino - of course it's not going to work. You have to commit to a good poker room for it to work.
Bad location (the mezzanine, around the corner from the south elevator bank). Few or no games going. It would take a particular sort of Kessler-hater to think that he had anything to do with it.
