Staff Walk Off Set of Channel 4 Poker Lounge
The Full Tilt sponsored TV poker show the Poker Lounge was cancelled midway through filming yesterday. The staff at Presentable Productions walked off the set of the Cardiff show after an expected wire transfer from Full Tilt subsidiary Pocket Kings reportedly did not arrive.
Presentable Productions are one of the first TV companies to produce poker shows; they are the company behind the pioneering Late Night Poker which started in 1999. The Poker Lounge debuted last year on Channel 4.
The show is an eight heat series of $20,000 Single Table Tournaments and filming stopped after the recording of heat three. Players and camera crew were sent home with no plans to return. This is one of the first signs that the situation in the US is having direct ramifications in the UK.
Source: Pokerati
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04-21-2011 14:37
This seems like a big over-reaction. Business is Business but given the huge logistics full Tilt are having to wrestle with as a result of Black Friday you would have thought that it would be recognised that perhaps a wire transfer to a production company was not top priority. We have long been a supplier to Full Tilt and have always found them incredibly prompt payers better than almost anyone in the business. As they face some difficult days and weeks ahead surely suppliers should recognise the fact that it is not business as usual and cut them some slack. If we value the work they have done in bringing poker to the masses it's time to offer support and not cut the legs out from under them.