{"id":8447,"date":"2018-09-20T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:30:09","slug":"cate-hall-doesnt-owe-60000-to-chad-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/cate-hall-doesnt-owe-60000-to-chad-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Hall Doesn’t Owe $60,000 to Chad Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relationships between sponsors and poker professionals have sometimes been fraught. We don\u2019t mean to cite the recent case with William Kassouf. The incident we have in mind involves the talent of Cate Hall, an established pro of her own making and a dashing figure at any final World Poker Tour table. She seems to be in trouble over unsettled payments with her sponsors. Here\u2019s the deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cate Hall and a Difficult Sponsorship<\/h2>\n

Two years ago, Cate Hall met Chad Power, a fellow gamer with sufficient means to afford to nurture and back other aspiring gamers. Chad offered her $60,000 to play with at a female poker event<\/a><\/strong>, but Hall faltered and ended up playing through the amount without winning anything back. There\u2019s nothing surprising there. The fortunes of poker players are a fickle mistress after all.<\/p>\n

With a total of $1 million to her name<\/a>, though, Cate Hall is hardly unable to take care of herself and her poker exploits. However, Chad is still of the opinion that win or lose, Hall owes him the amount back. Cate thinks differently and it\u2019s in the midst of this disagreement that things have gotten slightly out of hand. <\/p>\n

Hitting Twitter, a medium for many celebrities to settle their beef, garner support or downright try to overwhelm their foes, Cate argued that the conditions of the deal<\/strong> were rather vague to begin with. She continued by saying that she would have never agreed to deal where she could only keep part of the winnings but have to return all of the losses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

She did take a pre-emptive move against Power, saying that he had threaten to cast her as a scammer unless she paid up. Given publicity, Hall had to buckle, letting an arbitrator solve the problem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n