Hanoi, Vietnam's Crown Poker Club shuts down a two-week 'WPT Vietnam 2024 – Passport to the World Championship' series just as it was to begin. Hanoi, Vietnam's Crown Poker Club shuts down a two-week 'WPT Vietnam 2024 – Passport to the World Championship' series just as it was to begin. Haley Hintze Posted on: May 17, 2024 04:01 PDTLink copied

Citing ’technical issues’, Crown Poker Club notified players of the last-minute cancellation via the same Facebook page the Hanoi news outlet referenced in raising the issue to authorities. The club’s message read as follows:

EMERGENCY NOTICE

For technical reasons and with the best intentions for all players, Crown Poker Club would like to announce the cancellation of the WPT Vietnam 2024 - Passport to the World Championship scheduled to take place at Crown Poker Club from May 14, 2024. 2024 to May 27, 2024

Crown Poker Club regrets this inconvenience. This is truly a difficult decision because, throughout its operation, Crown Poker Club has always prioritized safety and improving tournament quality first.

Therefore, Crown Poker Club hopes for the sharing and sympathy of our partners, customers, and all players. Regarding refunds for Early Birds tickets, players please contact customer service for a refund.

Further details will be announced by Crown Poker Club as soon as possible.

Sincerely thank you! Crown Poker Club

Some players had already commited to traveling to the festival’s early events and appear to be on the hook for travel expenses. Here’s one such tale:

Latest in string of difficulties for Vietnamese poker tournaments

The cancellation of the WPT-affiliated isn’t the first difficult situation involving the Crown Poker Club that has emerged in recent months.

In March, Vietnam’s U Series of Poker (USOP), offering a festival in Danang in partnership with Crown Poker Club, faced large-scale protests from players over extra ‘winner’s fees’ being deducted from tournament payouts. The players cited Vietnamese laws appearing to show that such deductions were unlawful, and series organizers promised to reverse course and change fee structures in future events.

As the IAG report noted, this week’s WPT Passport series cancellation marks the third time in six months a major Vietnamese poker festival has been shut down in unexpected ways. Last December, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) Hanoi Billions festival wrapped two days earlier than planned. That forced closure came after Hanoi’s City Police affirmed public complaints that the city’s National Convention Center, where the stop was ongoing, could not be used for any sort of gambling-themed event, and the approvals had been granted in error.

And last month, the planned Asian Poker Festival Spring Series in Hanoi also fell apart amid a broken partnership between APF organizers and Hanoi’s Royal Poker Club, where the series was to take place. Club officials posted that they looked into running the series on their own, but the existing license approvals specifically included both corporate partners as event organizers, and were thus no longer valid.

Featured image source: Facebook / Crown Poker Club

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