After just lately getting turned down by a Dallas-area suburb for a poker site, Doug Polk and different house owners of the Lodge Poker Club in Round Rock, Texas, introduced Wednesday that they had been buying Rounders Card Club in San Antonio.
The Lodge will take over operations on July 3 with the cardboard room initially remaining within the present location. However, the Lodge plans to relocate the membership to a vacant retail location subsequent door that was previously an Office Depot. The transfer would enable the membership to double the variety of tables accessible and in addition construct a 4,000-square foot restaurant.
“Lodge Card Club’s long-term goal is to offer poker to as many people as possible, starting with the largest cities in Texas and expanding from there,” Polk famous in a information launch saying the deal. “San Antonio, the third largest city in the state, is a perfect place for our second location. We ultimately decided that, rather than trying to start from scratch, it made sense to acquire the largest room, then try to make improvements.”
A Look At What’s Ahead
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 most important membership at present 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 Club is happy to announce we’re taking up the most important poker site in San Antonio, @RoundersCard_SA, beginning July 3!
Full particulars and plans for enlargement are beneath pic.twitter.com/yMNwksYyeR
— Lodge Card Club (@LodgePokerClub) May 29, 2024
The deal additionally included the addition of a brand new investor within the property, a daily money sport participant from a few of the Lodge’s reside streams.
“A key part of this expansion was to include local investors,” Polk mentioned. “We’re happy to announce that San Antonio local Chaz Gill, otherwise known as Big Daddy Chaz, has come on board as an investor/partner and to help advise us on fulfilling the needs and wants of the local poker community.”
As a part of the acquisition, the Lodge additionally introduced a $1-$2 meet up sport on July 26 that includes poker vloggers and Lodge co-owners Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme to have fun the acquisition. That will probably be adopted by a $300 match on July 27 with a $50,000 assure.
