After not too long ago getting turned down by a Dallas-area suburb for a poker site, Doug Polk and different house owners of the Lodge Poker Membership in Spherical Rock, Texas, introduced Wednesday that they had been buying Rounders Card Membership in San Antonio.
The Lodge will take over operations on July 3 with the cardboard room initially remaining within the present location. Nonetheless, the Lodge plans to relocate the membership to a vacant retail location subsequent door that was previously an Workplace Depot. The transfer would enable the membership to double the variety of tables obtainable and in addition construct a 4,000-square foot restaurant.
“Lodge Card Membership’s long-term objective is to supply poker to as many individuals as attainable, beginning with the biggest cities in Texas and increasing from there,” Polk famous in a information launch asserting the deal. “San Antonio, the third largest metropolis within the state, is an ideal place for our second location. We in the end determined that, relatively than attempting to begin from scratch, it made sense to amass the biggest room, then attempt to make enhancements.”
A Look At What’s Forward
Poker golf equipment proceed to develop in quantity throughout the Lone Star State, though there was some pushback regarding legality, particularly in north Texas. Rounders is the biggest membership at the moment in San Antonio.
The Lodge possession group mentioned that operations won’t be interrupted and that tournaments and money video games would proceed.
WE’RE COMING TO SAN ANTONIO
Lodge Card Membership is happy to announce we’re taking on the biggest poker site in San Antonio, @RoundersCard_SA, beginning July 3!
Full particulars and plans for growth are beneath pic.twitter.com/yMNwksYyeR
— Lodge Card Membership (@LodgePokerClub) Could 29, 2024
The deal additionally included the addition of a brand new investor within the property, an everyday money recreation participant from among the Lodge’s stay streams.
“A key a part of this growth was to incorporate native traders,” Polk mentioned. “We’re completely happy to announce that San Antonio native Chaz Gill, in any other case often known as Huge Daddy Chaz, has come on board as an investor/associate and to assist advise us on fulfilling the wants and desires of the native poker neighborhood.”
As a part of the acquisition, the Lodge additionally introduced a $1-$2 meet up recreation on July 26 that includes poker vloggers and Lodge co-owners Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme to rejoice the acquisition. That shall be adopted by a $300 match on July 27 with a $50,000 assure.