On Friday, a new mid-major poker tour officially launched (and ended?) with the inaugural Midway Poker Tour stop in the Chicagoland area. The $1,100 buy-in Main Event attracted 266 runners, and two days later a winner emerged, though the event proved to be poker’s equivalent of Fyre Festival.
The tournament, which had a charity connection with 4 KIDS Sake, Inc. at the Sheraton Suites Chicago Elk Grove (held in various ballrooms to keep under the state-mandated pandemic limit of 50 people per room) went off without a hitch during the two starting flights on Friday and Saturday, but on Sunday things went sideways.