I am dead serious. And I have been for a full year in my occasional reminders that some contriteness on his part would be an excellent idea. I don't know about Shane having the upper hand and I'm not sure what that even means. I'm not really trying to "win" anything or get any kind of an upper hand on him.

In other news, on the twitter imjustshane he says he is in Croatia. I believe he may have referenced that once or twice on here in the past but I honestly can't remember.

I don't know if that's accurate though. Just like linkedin, one can't tell what exactly has been updated on a twitter profile at what time. So basically we are still left wondering because of Shane's evasiveness.

Last year (maybe 6+ months ago?), Shane locked his twitter account. People on here were looking at it and he didn't seem to care for that. That doesn't really have anything to do with anything...just something I was reminded of.

Shane - Why are you no longer the affiliate guy? Why are you only the social media guy now? Curious how all of this happened. Thanks.

I do see that the Lock facebook page has been significantly more active in regards to promotional stuff. The twitter account a little bit as well (not as much though...still mostly the automated, "here are the 3 Lock Lotto Winners today).

Shane - Back to something actually on the tables: Is flipping allowed in the rake-races? I believe I have read that McCormick mostly does "flips" in order to win the rake race. Is this correct?

Most sites have stipulations on their contests about the play needing to be genuine or legitimate or somehow in the spirit of the game. That type of thing. Curious about this aspect but I haven't followed it very closely.

Hi Shane,

Can we get you to do an interview on the 2+2 Pokercast?

Flipping is still allowed for the rake races. For Lock rake>encouraging play. Even though the only guys that do it end up getting ~100%rb anyway so the only thing accomplished is discouraging the people that actually play poker from putting in much volume.

Can't blame the flippers for taking advantage of the situation though. It's Locks fault for creating an environment that encourages it.

Correct. Shane told me it won't be the case anymore in the future however (next month?) not sure if that's something they still plan on pushing through or not, but that's what i was told.

Shane, if the old processors are so unreliable, why don't you resubmit the back logged withdrawals through the newer, faster processors??

3+ months for my money. But don't worry cashouts are 'improving'.

He doesn't need an enormous amount of time to answer questions. He isn't trying his best to answer questions. It is not difficult to simply state the truth, unless the truth is something completely damning to Lock. Respect is earned - Shane deserves no respect. I'll never understand why people blindly defend scumbags who don't deserve it with arguments that are empty and false. Please stop.

Recent post IP addresses aren't coming from Croatia, either.

Thanks McC. To be clear, you would go to a heads-up tourney table with a friend and would pretty much agree to blindly go all-in? Is that how it would work?

You could, but there are actual 'flip' sng's that automate it.

Interesting response. Let me take this one step further. Shane, do you feel betrayed by Lock that they put you in the position of having to not be straightforward in some of your responses to the players. Reason I ask this is if Lock got their **** together there would be no questions asked that you would have to not give a straight answer for.

I don't care what his IP currently shows.

"lockpokerofficial" (Joseph) made ONE post. It was from a German IP, and it was shortly after the Portugal trip (and in fact, the account was registered from Portugal).

It's very possible that Shane still lives in Berlin, but has a temporary residence elsewhere as a result of his work for Lock. It would not be at all unusual for Shane to make a stop in Berlin (which is only a 2-hour flight from Portugal) after the retreat before returning home.

In his "clever" mind, he thought that he could easily make a few posts as "lockpokerofficial" and not be suspected of being behind it, due to the vastly different IP locality. He probably didn't count on people looking at his linkedin and seeing that he's also based in Germany, nor did he figure that some posters here would notice the similarities in writing style.

At the very least, Shane set up the entire "lockpokerofficial" account (while in Portugal) and then wrote its initial post, and then sent it to some friend in Berlin to actually post it. However, it's more likely that it was just Shane himself, posting while in Germany.

It would be interesting to see Shane's IP on the day "lockpokerofficial" posted here. I know that's stored in the server and vBulletin logs.

Just so we get this out of the way, Shane, when was the last time you set foot in Germany?

We have had some delays with WU which we are working through now, if you email me your details I can look into your situation and ensure you are on the priority list.


Actually I was hoping a mod would come in and confirm my IP location without having to post where I live. With posts such as "Shane needs to have his throat slit" I would prefer to not have to post my location.


We wanted to build up the social media side of things and with more and more of my time already being taken up by 2+2 it made sense to add social media to my plate and start ramping that up as well.


After feedback from players flipping is being removed from promotions effective next month.


Because to do that we would need to get the funds back from the old processor first, so its not guaranteed it will work out to be faster.


They should be since thats where I am, when I go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ the correct information comes up.

My ISP is B.net Hrvatska d.o.o. (Hrvatska being the actual name for Croatia)

No that is outlawed. There are coin flip tournaments which are just flips, these are currently allowed but soon to be banned from promotions.


There is always information players want that we cant give, its been that way since I very first joined the industry.

And in general I dont feel betrayed, there are lots of things we could have done better many of which I wear a good chunk of of the flack for, but we are team and I accept that just as we share the acclaim we have to share the blame.


My IP on the day Joseph posted was a Porto IP, I stayed there the weekend with my girlfriend after the retreat.

Last set foot in Germany in early December for a few days, and before that April 2012.

Shane,
Withdrawal times are supposed to be improving with the new processor online, but what about withdrawal approval times? Why do they still take more than a month? When will these get down to a more realistic time like 24 hours or so?

*shrug*

You have a list of IPs in the hundreds, I was under the impression that they were stored with the most recent IP addressed used at the bottom of the list, but I'd be lying if I said I knew that for sure.

It's no more definitive than anything else since people can reroute IPs. I've already confirmed numerous times that the lockpokerofficial account shared ZERO IPs with any other account on 2p2, including yours. Beyond that I'm hardly the type that can really investigate stuff like that.

Right now its a mixture of the leg work required with all of the enquiries coming through as we clear up the outstanding cashouts and the extra work going into checking all the cashout requests in light of the recent transfer situation.

this thread is so lols. watching shane try to defend himself with more lies, so great. kilowatt straight up owning him ITT, so hard that he just had to stop responding to him because he couldn't come up with more lies to discredit him.

kilowatt is doing nothing but stirring up trouble. I have my theories on why he, and others, are doing so. Shane is in a bad spot and I don't envy him, but I don't exactly feel bad for him either.

I am however, choosing to give him the benefit of the doubt that Lock is working to turn this around.

Shane - Thank you for answering my other questions.

You have refused or ignored the question about when/whether a new Lock representative would be involved in the 2+2 community (as Mason previously stated would happen....as I assume was agreed upon by Lock).

Can we assume that there will not be a new representative joining the community? Is that accurate?

I responded about the current situation with Joseph.

Im not aware of any plan to add any one other than Joseph and while I continue to pass onto Joseph the communities desire for him to come back and post more frequently that hasn't happened yet and Im not sure if or when it will happen.

This has reached a new level