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John Ott, a Tampa resident and district sales manager at Performance Foodservice, is also a professional poker player. Tampa Bay Downs, which began as a horse track for gamblers, now offers pokerin its Silks Poker Room.

Ott considers Silks as his “home” club.

After submitting the form you will be redirected back to the Silks Poker Room website. To receive your card and claim your $20 in chips, visit the poker room cashier on the third floor of the Tampa Bay Downs racetrack complex located at 11225 Race Track Rd, Tampa, FL 33626. CobraCasino is powered by software provider Softswiss, which can be found Tampa Bay Downs Poker Room Review in most modern casinos. This platform covers more than 30 game developers, including names such as NetEnt, Spinomenal, Habanero.

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For years, Silks was one of the clubs across the U.S. holding tournaments for the Player’s Poker Championship, a Pompano Beach-based poker tour. The Silks competition was intended to be a “feeder” event, leading to the PPC Poker Tour finals in Aruba.

In November 2016, a group of players – Ott; Stephen Deutsch of Baltimore; James Beadnell of Ohio; Michael Lerner of Maryland; and Joan Sandoval from Wisconsin — won five of the top six prizes at the 2016 PPC Main Event finals, an amount well over $300,000.

Ott finished in sixth place at the event, held at the Hilton Aruba Resort Casino & Spa, for $32,085.

Instead of paying out full cash awards, however, Ott and the others say PPC gave them each $10,000, promising a share of future cash until for the rest. They refused, and now are claiming they are owed just under $300,000.

Ott says he is still owed $32,085.

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In a lawsuit filed Jan. 17 in Hillsborough County, the plaintiffs say Tampa Bay Downs joined PPC to promote what they claim is a fraudulent Ponzi scheme where future payoffs are used to pay past winners.

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They are asking Tampa Bay Downs, whose president is Stella Thayer, to make them whole.

Thayer, who has been with Tampa Bay Downs for more than 50 years, was named one of 2016’s most influential women in Tampa Bay area sports. Her brother, Howell Ferguson, serves as vice president.

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The suit argues that the PPC Main Event in Aruba is “largely operated by” Tampa Bay Downs, sending poker dealers, a floor supervisor, and Silks director Patrick Murphy to work the annual championship event. Murphy, it continues, is alleged to be a co-owner of the poker room used for the tournament.

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The Hillsborough County action is intended to be a companion to a similar suit filed Jan. 3 in Maryland against PPC and its principals, Bryan Oulton and Thomas “Sandy” Swartzbaugh. Plaintiffs decided on a Florida suit because Tampa Bay Downs does no business in Maryland.