Polymarket's D.C. bar falls victim to power issues in botched opening

At Polymarket's Washington pop-up bar, attendees found it difficult to “monitor the situation” without any monitors.

WASHINGTON — If only someone could have predicted this.

The much anticipated opening of a new bar in downtown Washington, D.C., by the prediction platform Polymarket — promising 80-plus televisions, touchscreen trackers and a giant globe listing current predictions around the world — didn’t kick off as organizers had planned.

“Monitoring the Situation,” as the temporary facade outside read, became hard to do inside, with no power or Wi-Fi running to any of the TVs that lined every wall of the restaurant. That meant no X feeds. No stock market reports. No flight trackers.