by Wicked Chops Entity on 1.25.2011 in
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A league of his own.
Last week, Federated Sports + Gaming announced the formation of “a new, revolutionary professional poker league” led by former WSOP commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. The company intends to establish “the PGA of poker” with four initial events featuring around 200 of the top live tournament poker players and juiced prizepools.
For many, the announcement sounded just like a little bit of history repeating. Similar tours have quickly come and quickly gone over the years.
But to Federated’s credit, they received broad and glowing press coverage on the announcement. Fortunately for them, much of that coverage seemed to overlook fundamental and inherent flaws with their business model, and subsequently, chances for the tour to actually be successful.
Over the past week, we talked to a number of industry leaders, players, and media members for their take on the new Pollack venture. The following post details a number of the challenges we, as well as many others, believe the Federated league faces.
:: How will the Federated league make money? It’s the $100 million dollar question. Can a PGA style tour for poker make money?
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by Wicked Chops Entity on 6.1.2010 in
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In our latest podcast, Jeffrey Pollack discusses his new role at PBR and his future plans in poker.
One thing we like about this whole podcastingTM thing is it can save us from writing elaborate posts.
As you may have read here and here, former WSOP Commish Jeffrey Pollack was introduced today as executive chairman of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) organization.
Many people didn’t know this, but Pollack was actually a professional bull rider in his 20′s.* Click below as Pollack discusses his role with PBR and if he has any plans to get back into the poker industry.
* Professional bull rider is what they called the President of The Sports Business Daily back in the day.
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by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.13.2009 in
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Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 1 on RawVegas.tv
We caught up with
Jeffrey Pollack for what was supposed to be a final vlog but quickly turned into a
60 Minutes style interview. Turns out after four years as WSOP commish, there was a lot of ground to cover.
So we headed to the new home of the WSOP (breaking news here), the Pavilion Center in the Rio, where Pollack, who has always been good to the so-called poker “media,” was cool enough to give us his only video interview. Part I (above) covers why he decided to leave and what role (if any) new boss Mitch Garber played in that decision.
Parts II & III (coming soon) cover accomplishments, disappointments, wtf he would’ve done had both Shulman’s captured the Main Event crowns, and of course, what he’s going to do with all of this free time on his hands.
UPDATE: WITH PART II
Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 2 on RawVegas.tv
PART III
Watch Interview With Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Part 3 on RawVegas.tv
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by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.13.2009 in
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Jeffrey Pollack oversaw tremendous growth with the WSOP since he took over as commissioner in 2006.
Harrah’s announced today that
Jeffrey Pollack is “leaving [his] post” as
WSOP commissioner.
Prior to serving as WSOP commish, Pollack was Vice President of Marketing & Corporate Communications for the NBA and Managing Director of Broadcasting and New Media for NASCAR Digital Entertainment. He was hired by Harrah’s in 2005 as a VP of Marketing and was elevated to President and Commissioner of the WSOP in 2006.
Under Pollack’s guidance, WSOP attendance has grown 88%. He’s also overseen the launch of the WSOP Europe, Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony, $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship, Ante Up for Africa charity event, and of course, the November NineTM.
Of course, Pollack was also a vlogging, blogging, twittering fiend who was always looking for new technological innovations to reach the poker audience.
Go below the fold for more detailed information on growth during Pollack’s tenure. Go to Pokerati here for other additional info.
We expect to do an exit vlog with Pollack later today. Check back this afternoon.
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by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.10.2009 in
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