PDX Poker Club

The letter we've received from City of Portland. Rule change is effective immediately.. We were given zero choice.

$20,000 Guarantee special tonight, Friday, May 27 at 8pm. $80 Buy-in, 1 Rebuy, $40 Add-on(10k chips), 15K starting stack, 25min rounds.

So, I think you may have heard by now that we have to rebrand from Encore Club to PDX Poker Club due to trademark ownership issues. The guy named Steve Wynn owns trademark to the name Encore (oops). Needless to say, we can't do much about it but to tap out. Changing the name is far from ideal, of course, but at the same time, it's not going to affect us much, we aren't a chain of poker clubs and you still know where to find us.

When I was picking the name, I wanted something that would subtly resemble the pull of Las Vegas and I thought Encore is pretty nice and the domain name was available as well for not too much money :) Obviously, this not entirely well thought out strategy has backfired.

Another perspective on this is that it doesn't matter if you are going to change the name, if there is no underlying substance behind it, nothing is going to change, really. Which is not our case. In our case, the veil is being lifted and what's revealed is what we truly are - PDX Poker Club - Portlander's absolute favorite poker venue!

Having said all of that, we will remain Encore in the hearts and minds of our regulars and old timers forever. For all new comers, we will simply be PDX Poker Club.

Thank you guys for the memories, good times, crazy bad beats and insane suck outs LOL.