Neeme, Owen and Polk buy stakes in "The Lodge" poker room, Austin TX (Lodge containment thread)

Neeme, Owen and Polk buy stakes in "The Lodge" poker room, Austin TX (Lodge containment thread)

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03 January 2022 at 07:03 PM
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On a stream, you want to avoid being in 2 places at once.

When people see you in two places at once they know the show isn't live.

I had 25 minutes to put together a strategy, it wasn't an off the cuff game plan.


Ok fair enough, you didn’t have much time to think through. Congrats on an excellent weekend of streams by the way. Great games to watch.


Thanks! One of our best for sure


I don't know what of these accusations are true or false but I do think quality of dealers at the Lodge has dropped. This might be natural with the growth but between the loss of many regulars and all the traveling dealers needed for the tournament series, it definitely is a drop in experience compared to when dealers were the biggest reason I originally liked playing at the Lodge. It was most noticeable at the last MUG when had to explain to multiple dealers standard Lodge rules like with Bomb Pots. If losing good dealers because of management, I think it is a concern that should be taken seriously as the easiest way for another room to get me personally to try them instead of the Lodge is by having the dealers that I know are fast, trustworthy, and create a fun atmosphere.


how about that 24 min airball tank?


by Grimstard k

how about that 24 min airball tank?

Whales require the biggest tanks


doug polk literally scammed his followers with coinflex, i'd be so wary about the lodge lol


by ExpatRights k

doug polk literally scammed his followers with coinflex, i'd be so wary about the lodge lol

Someone needs to learn what the word "literally" means.


Yeah, that is taking it a bit too far. The Lodge seems to be doing quite well and conducted as a stable business.

Hopefully, more stable than CoinFlex stable coin lololo. Ok I see myself out


What brand is that green flower shirt Doug is wearing on a recent stream?

Edit: Oh, and yeah, I really registered 7 years ago and having my first post here being about a shirt.


by KrisG k

What brand is that green flower shirt Doug is wearing on a recent stream?

Edit: Oh, and yeah, I really registered 7 years ago and having my first post here being about a shirt.

Travis Matthew's, nice brand imo


by WCGRider k

Travis Matthew's, nice brand imo

Yes, a nice brand. Did you start playing golf though as it is generally a golf apparel brand?


by The Standard Station k

Late night for the wgc rider, its 234am mtn time right now, so kudos for actually caring about this enough that you're losing sleep over it.

As a business owner myself I've learned that people seem to have an incredible amount of gripes once they're no longer employed at the business. Theyre able to tell tall tales and not be held accountable for backing the statement up because theyre no longer employed at (my) business. Does this mean theyre all false? No, I definitely have come to learn good i

Pretty good post. The complaints do just seem like sour grapes from a former employee looking to lash out. Happens in all businesses, even the fairest most honest businesses have issues like this. It doesn't mean there is no truth to everything the ex-employee posted. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. In this case I don't put much belief into the "whistleblower."

Without ever playing at the Lodge, from what others say in person at the poker tables, I've heard nothing but good things. So it seems they are doing a pretty good job over there, at least word of mouth wise. Doug also seems to be doing a really good job on the live stream, not an easy thing to accomplish based on watching some other try.

Not sure what Doug and the Crypto scam details are. But if it's just he was schilling / advertising for a crypto that went under and people lost money. That doesn't make Doug a scammer. There is a long list of celebrities with great reputations their whole lives who do business with companies that turn out to be scammers.... That does not make them scammers! Unless they knew it was a scam all along.


by zrap k

Not sure what Doug and the Crypto scam details are. But if it's just he was schilling / advertising for a crypto that went under and people lost money. That doesn't make Doug a scammer...

Doug is a complete liar and literally said repeatedly he saw no red flags with CoinFlex prior to resigning, despite video proof to the contrary. I think you would be shocked and appalled if you were aware of extent of Doug's bad-faith promotion of that scam. I won't dertail the thread with the long list of evidence but I would bet everything I own that Doug promoted CoinFlex in bad faith and was caught in multiple lies after the fact.

Have you ever seen a brand ambassador tell the CEO of the company they represent that they sound like a scammer? And then continue to promote the product? Well look no further!

by editundo k

Your Own Youtube Video (1:43:00)

Here it is again. The CEO tells people to invest all their money in stablecoins, and you proclaim that sounds like a scam. You keep claiming you ended the sponsorship at a responsible time, but that's a complete lie. It would have been ended the moment he said that if you actually cared about red flags. He owns a stablecoin product, and tells people to invest all their money in stablecoins. You going to insult our intelligence by saying that's not a red flag? He


by zrap k

Pretty good post. The complaints do just seem like sour grapes from a former employee looking to lash out. Happens in all businesses, even the fairest most honest businesses have issues like this. It doesn't mean there is no truth to everything the ex-employee posted. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. In this case I don't put much belief into the "whistleblower."

Without ever playing at the Lodge, from what others say in person at the poker tables, I've heard nothing but good th

but Doug wasn't just schilling something he knows nothing about like a lot of athletes do. He even had a crypto youtube channel.
He's deeply invested in crypto and he's smart enough to know something promising a 10-15 percent return is a scam.


Don't worry guys I looked into the accusations about my company and found out they were false.


by borg23 k

...he's smart enough to know something promising a 10-15 percent return is a scam.

Yeah and he's smart enough to know it's wildly unethical to tell people to invest all their money into stablecoins, but continued to promote the company where the CEO was telling people to do that. This is an irrefutable fact. What happened to their stablecoin? It went to $0. This same stablecoin Doug tweeted it cannot depeg and go below $1 (he guaranteed this as brand ambassador). If you trust Doug, unfortunately, you are a sucker.

I'm not going to harass Doug by bringing up his CoinFlex scam repeatedly so I won't post anymore itt.


by RosaParks1 k

Don't worry guys I looked into the accusations about my company and found out they were false.

Good post. Funny.

Although not sure how much else Doug could have done on that short notice. Seemed like he took it serious and was all over it as much as could be. If he takes a couple days to write out an official statement with more details or something. People would complain it took him over a day to respond and say that shows guilt.


It's another classic NVG spot where we don't have the full story, no third party was there to report what really happened, and we just have to randomly decide who we think is more trustworthy. The disgruntled ex-employee always raises eyebrows when they talk about scandals, and the owner defending their company always looks like it's a PR move.


by editundo k

Yes, because you were brand ambassador for an obvious scam, with a guy you called out as a scammer on the front page, where you said the CEO sounded like a scammer. You have no self awareness apparently.

If it was such an obvious scam, then why are you blaming a brand ambassador? Are people not responsible for recognizing these “obvious scams“ before sending their money to these “obvious“ scammers?

Do you hang out on forums and blast Serena Williams for endorsing Gatorade as a healthy drink when it’s quite unhealthy? Or is it the consumer’s responsibility to read the label and realize that it’s obviously not good for them?


by Solving Live Poker k

If it was such an obvious scam, then why are you blaming a brand ambassador? Are people not responsible for recognizing these “obvious scams“ before sending their money to these “obvious“ scammers?

Do you hang out on forums and blast Serena Williams for endorsing Gatorade as a healthy drink when it’s quite unhealthy? Or is it the consumer’s responsibility to read the label and realize that it’s obviously not good for them?

But Gatorade has electrolytes.

This is very bad take though there’s endorsing morally questionable companies like Gatorade and there’s enabling outright fraud like lock poker ftx Enron and coin flex. If you can’t tell the difference I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t think you followed the situation either. His handling of it when criticized before its collapse was abysmal (didn’t he offer to take a bet they’d never go insolvent on twitter and when people wanted to take him up on it he weaseled out) and he’s never addressed his role properly/apologized afterward (which I’d imagine legal advice is encouraging him strongly not to but still not a good look and often what he criticized others for or less in the past).

There’s more that makes this terrible as well. He had a crypto channel on YouTube at the time and was trying to establish himself as a crypto guru while cashing in on an obvious scam endorsement. The fact that he acts as a victim after all this stuff and is so defensive when he literally made a career as a personality about calling others out for this for way less serious offenses is as ironic/hypocritical as you can get as well.


Last night the Lodge had more viewers than HCL for High Stakes friday. I feel like this is pretty significant.

I also think the lodge has surpassed HCL in the amount of characters i want to watch.


by smoothcriminal99 k

But Gatorade has electrolytes.

This is very bad take though there’s endorsing morally questionable companies like Gatorade and there’s enabling outright fraud like lock poker ftx Enron and coin flex. If you can’t tell the difference I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t think you followed the situation either. His handling of it when criticized before its collapse was abysmal (didn’t he offer to take a bet they’d never go insolvent on twitter and when people wanted to take him up on it he weasel

I always assumed that he took all the money he scammed off his pleebs that follow his every word and bought into The Lodge. Why would you spend your own money on such a venture when you could fleece it off your flock of sheeple?


by Puppy Water k

I always assumed that he took all the money he scammed off his pleebs that follow his every word and bought into The Lodge. Why would you spend your own money on such a venture when you could fleece it off your flock of sheeple?

Presumably he won a lot HU in the day, and his video etc. site maybe makes money. You could say he was hustling playing HU and cheating people who bought Upswing products. However, I don't see how it wasn't his own money. Also, it may not take a lot to buy a stake in a poker room than doesn't even have other gambling.


by zrap k

Pretty good post. The complaints do just seem like sour grapes from a former employee looking to lash out. Happens in all businesses, even the fairest most honest businesses have issues like this. It doesn't mean there is no truth to everything the ex-employee posted. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. In this case I don't put much belief into the "whistleblower."

Without ever playing at the Lodge, from what others say in person at the poker tables, I've heard nothing but good th

Exactly. These same internet idiots would be blaming Patrick Mahomes if State Farm denies their claim or something.

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