The $27,000 that had been generated toward the prize pool will be used as the payouts for what Yaple termed a freeroll for the nine players from the 123 initial entries who survived into Monday’s Day 2.
Each of those entrants, which may include multiple entries for a given player, will see each of their $350 entry fees refunded. Through the four starting flights that ran as scheduled, there were 123 total entries. Accompanied by Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci, the hosts of the popular live-streamed cash game hosted by Hustler, Yaple said, “I made the decision… and it’s been pretty apparent by the backlash on social media that it was the wrong decision.” In a brief video posted on social media, Hustler Casino’s general manager, Shaun Yaple, took responsibility for the heavy backlash that Hustler encountered after canceling the event.
Los Angeles’s Hustler Casino has announced a refund of all previously paid player entries and what is being described as a $27,000 “freeroll” for the nine surviving players of the early flights of the main event of the 2022 Larry Flynt’s Grand Slam of Poker, which was originally scheduled to run Day 1 flights through Sunday, August 7, and continue with its Day 2 on Monday, August 8.
