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John Ott, a Tampa resident and district sales manager at Performance Foodservice, is also a professional poker player. Tampa Bay Downs, which began as a horse track for gamblers, now offers pokerin its Silks Poker Room.

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The 2019 Ante Up Poker Tour Tampa Bay Downs $250 Main Event attracted 443 entries over five starting flights – which surpassed the $60K GTD by creating an $89,503 prize pool – and on Sunday. Main Line (727) 812-3339 Poker (727) 812-3339 ext. 214 Tournaments: ext 216. 2020 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida $1,700 WPO Main Event $200,000 Guaranteed Entries: 779 Prize Pool: $1,207,450 December 10-14, 2020. By any measure, the 2020 Winter Poker Open was a huge success and it was capped off by the $1,700 buy-in Main Event. Jan 24, 2017 John Ott, a Tampa resident and district sales manager at Performance Foodservice, is also a professional poker player. Tampa Bay Downs, which began as a horse track for gamblers, now offers poker i.

The Silks 23 table poker room at Tampa Bay Downs offers daily live action games and poker tournaments. Silks Poker Room amenities include plasma televisions, safe deposit boxes, table-side massage ($1.50/minute), table-side dining and complimentary beverages served in a comfortable smoke-free environment.

Ott considers Silks as his “home” club.

For years, Silks was one of the clubs across the U.S. holding tournaments for the Player’s Poker Championship, a Pompano Beach-based poker tour. The Silks competition was intended to be a “feeder” event, leading to the PPC Poker Tour finals in Aruba.

In November 2016, a group of players – Ott; Stephen Deutsch of Baltimore; James Beadnell of Ohio; Michael Lerner of Maryland; and Joan Sandoval from Wisconsin — won five of the top six prizes at the 2016 PPC Main Event finals, an amount well over $300,000.

Ott finished in sixth place at the event, held at the Hilton Aruba Resort Casino & Spa, for $32,085.

Instead of paying out full cash awards, however, Ott and the others say PPC gave them each $10,000, promising a share of future cash until for the rest. They refused, and now are claiming they are owed just under $300,000.

Ott says he is still owed $32,085.

In a lawsuit filed Jan. 17 in Hillsborough County, the plaintiffs say Tampa Bay Downs joined PPC to promote what they claim is a fraudulent Ponzi scheme where future payoffs are used to pay past winners.

They are asking Tampa Bay Downs, whose president is Stella Thayer, to make them whole.

Thayer, who has been with Tampa Bay Downs for more than 50 years, was named one of 2016’s most influential women in Tampa Bay area sports. Her brother, Howell Ferguson, serves as vice president.

The suit argues that the PPC Main Event in Aruba is “largely operated by” Tampa Bay Downs, sending poker dealers, a floor supervisor, and Silks director Patrick Murphy to work the annual championship event. Murphy, it continues, is alleged to be a co-owner of the poker room used for the tournament.

The Hillsborough County action is intended to be a companion to a similar suit filed Jan. 3 in Maryland against PPC and its principals, Bryan Oulton and Thomas “Sandy” Swartzbaugh. Plaintiffs decided on a Florida suit because Tampa Bay Downs does no business in Maryland.

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Featured promotions:
Sunday -
12pm - Close Flop A High Hand $500 all other high hands pick 3 pull tabs keep highest 2
Complete your cycle - pick 4 pocket pair win with all 4 for $500 win with 3 for $100

Monday -
10am - 12pm 4 of a kind or better picks a pull tab from the Holiday Tree. $100 to $1000
12pm - 10pm Pull Tab promotion win up to $1,000 Aces full minimum

Tuesday and Thursday -
10am - 12pm 4 of a kind of better picks a pull tab from the Holiday Tree. $100 to $1000
12pm - Time is Money. Longer you play the more we pay. 4 of a kind or better. Up to $500

Wednesday -
10am - 12pm 4 of a kind or better picks a pull tab from the Holiday Tree. $100 to $1000
12pm - Close $300 high hands every 20 minutes. A's full of Jacks minimum
Complete your cycle - pick 4 pocket pair win with all 4 for $500 win with 3 for $100

Friday -
Flop Quads first 2 win $1,000
$300 High Hand add $299 if you played 15 hours Sun-Thur

Saturday -
$300 High Hand add $299 if you played 15 hours Sun-Thur

Check out our new December promotions and tournament schedule

Check them out onwww.tampabaydowns.com/poker/printable-calendars
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The Silks 23 table poker room at Tampa Bay Downs offers daily live action games and poker tournaments. Silks Poker Room amenities include plasma televisions, safe deposit boxes, table-side massage ($1.50/minute), table-side dining and complimentary beverages served in a comfortable smoke-free environment.

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Level 27 40 30000 60000 60000
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