Two new buyers have come on board at Texas’s Lodge Poker Club.
The firm’s house owners already included Doug Polk, Brad Owen, and Andrew Neeme, and Polk introduced in video on Monday that poker vlogger Ethan “Rampage” Yau and high-stakes professional Nikhil Arcot, also referred to as “Nik Airball,” have joined the possession workforce.
The group operates a Lodge poker site in Round Rock, simply north of Austin, and added a San Antonio membership final yr after buying Rounders Card Club in May. Polk was happy to see Yau and Arcot come on board.
“I think these two men have a play style that will fit in nicely with the Lodge Card Club ownership group,” Polk stated in a YouTube video saying the transfer. “However you want to chop it up, these are two of the largest personalities in poker today and they certainly make things more entertaining. In fact, whenever they swing by the channel and play in our show, viewership does tend to spike pretty significantly.”
New Owners Know The Importance Of Content
Polk stated each gamers perceive methods to create profitable poker content material and that seems to be a significant component in including them to the Lodge possession group.
Yau and Arcot steadily seem on high-stakes money sport streams and Yau has 328,000 subscribers on YouTube. The additions imply extra appearances by the 2 on the membership’s Poker on the Lodge livestreams.
“They understand that poker is a game where you need to generate interest in the game itself in order for viewers to enjoy their experience and feel compelled to root for their heroes or hope that their villain loses,” Polk stated in a YouTube video saying the transfer.
Both have appeared on the Lodge livestream and Polk stated a lot of the present’s development got here from Yau’s early appearances earlier than Polk was even concerned within the firm. He didn’t disclose any monetary particulars of the investments.
“I am incredibly proud of what we’ve built over the last few years,” Polk stated. “Obviously we bought into this club a few years ago and we’ve expanded to two clubs. We’re going to continue to look for opportunities to grow and we’re going to keep trying to do cool stuff in poker. And I think that’s something that the poker industry needs.”
However, the investments come because the legality of Texas poker golf equipment is perhaps at an inflection level. A pair of payments are floating by way of the legislature. One would legalize the social membership mannequin used within the Lone Star State, whereas the opposite would make them unlawful.
Beyond the brand new buyers, the Lodge not too long ago made information when gamers on the property cashed in on a $290,000 dangerous beat jackpot, the most important in Texas historical past.
Photos courtesy of PokerGO/Antonio Abrego
