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Possibly too level-headed
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Absolutely ridiculous
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By Adanthar
on 09/18/2007
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read Adanthar's complete blog
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The Absolute tally thus far: three days, five clearly cheating accounts, upwards of half a million dollars, zero acknowledgment from senior Absolute management in any way. Well, okay, it's the biggest scandal in online poker history since Planet's RNG back in 1999 or whenever the Internet was still a series of tubes; perhaps they're trying to keep it in-house and contact everyone involved behind the scenes or something...wait, no they aren't, because I haven't heard shit.
Since 99% of the high stakes poker world *is* hooked up to that series of tubes now, though, there is an awful lot of damage being done, and AP should really have a public relations team on the case. Fortunately for them, the 1% is still stubbornly defending them in this Casinomeister thread with a disjointed post that starts thusly:
The whole issue is just amusing...
Do people really buy that crap? come on..
It goes on from there. Unfortunately, one post later, this guy gets outed as - no kidding - a repeated Absolute spammer who has the same IP address as the President of Absolute Entertainment. He, of course, never posts again.
Wow. Just wow. *This* is the best you can do? Get with the damn times; you're giving this entire business a black eye on a daily basis. In the meantime, every day you don't do anything about this (and I'm including a BIG PR push - not counting spamming shills) is a day I probably personally cost you another five digits in lost business just from compiling freaking hand histories. How do you people run an eight (if not nine!) digit a year enterprise and spend two days with the only response to the nuclear bomb of online poker coming from a random affiliate manager who doesn't know what she's talking about?
How do you manage to print that much money and suck this bad?
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In other sort of poker related news, the Fed cut rates half a point today, stunning pretty much everybody. This sent Wall Street up and the dollar down, a scenario which is going to repeat for the next few months until, most likely, the Dow finally goes down with the ship. The reason I say this is that looking at the combination of a spike in oil price + a weak dollar (driving up oil obv) + subprime today gives me the unpleasant impression that this bounce looks a whole lot like those two minutes on the Titanic where the aforementioned ship stood on end before taking a final giant, glorious swan dive. The rats (that is, those of us who, thanks to earning 100% of our income in dollars while traveling all over the planet, have to hit the water first) are gonna be scurrying around looking for buckets, but unfortunately, BBV4Life tells me the bucket seal is dead. Where am I going with this tortured metaphor? Uhh...pull as much of your bankroll out as possible and stick it into an account denominated in something whose color isn't green, because even one or two more interest rate cuts from now on means that the Canadians are gonna start making jokes about our worthless toilet paper money. If even my lazy ass is going to do it, you ought to get in line before the last life raft sails.
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