Chris Moneymaker’s Kentucky poker site is again – albeit in a brand new location. After closing a venue in Paducah in February 2023, the Moneymaker Social membership re-opened Saturday in Louisville.
The 2023 World Series of Poker fundamental occasion winner launched a video detailing plans for the room’s opening. The location is only a quick drive from the University of Louisville.
“We’ll have food, have drinks, have some poker,” he stated in saying the opening. “So come out and have a good time.”
Details On The Club
Moneymaker’s membership turns into the second room to open within the state. The property follows an identical enterprise mannequin as in Texas, the place gamers pay a membership price as they may at a rustic membership, as a substitute of the home taking a rake of the motion.
That quantities to membership dues of $80 a month or $10 per day. Players additionally pay a $7 seat price each half hour. The room options eight tables, with room for growth. There is money recreation play at present, however tournaments could also be added in some unspecified time in the future as effectively.
Moneymaker believes the brand new room has threaded the needle in terms of state regulation. The venue’s supervisor, Christine Russell, advised PokerNews that the district attorney has given the go-ahead on the model and “is excited to have us here.”
Today is an enormous day for
CMONEYMAKER</a> and his brand as he re-opens the doors on a new social in Louisville Kentucky at 3pm! If you live in the area, go check out all the hard work put into today’s opening! <a href="https://twitter.com/MMSocialLou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">MMSocialLou pic.twitter.com/QtINaNnUV6— Tony Burns (@MMTonyB) June 1, 2024
The Paducah room confronted way more native opposition, together with threats from native regulation enforcement, in accordance with information experiences on the time. Those considerations now appear to have subsided with the brand new location.
The membership appears a possible location for a Moneymaker Tour cease, which launched in 2023 and has now run a number of occasions.
We obtained 2/5 nl with standup recreation and a pair of 7 recreation. Also obtained 2 1/3 video games working. Come test us out @MMSocialLou pic.twitter.com/QDqw9QRb9l
— Chris Moneymaker (@CMONEYMAKER) June 3, 2024
Beyond the tour and new enterprise enterprise in Kentucky, it’s been a pleasant few months for the Poker Hall of Famer on the poker felt as effectively. In May, Moneymaker received a Triton excessive curler occasion in Montenegro for $903,000 whereas taking third in one other excessive curler for $311,000. The ACR Poker professional additionally took sixth within the Venom on-line occasion for an additional $382,007.
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